FORMER Super Eagles midfielder, Mutiu Adepoju has slammed the team’s midfield and attacking line-up in Monday’s scrappy win over the Chipolopolo of Zambia in their African Nations Cup quarter final match.

Asamoah Gyan who scored the decisive goal in Ghana’s quarter-final win over the hosts in Luanda on Sunday said that he can’t wait to play against the Eagles in their semi-final clash today.

After a very exciting and successful 2009 literary season which featured readings by national and international writers, creative writing workshops, weekly critique sessions and an acclaimed and widely patronized national literary contest, the precocious Abuja Writers’ Forum (AWF) is set to kick-start its 2010 literary calendar with a trio of writers billed for the First Quarter Guest Writer Session.

Under-pressure Super Eagles chief coach, Shaibu Amodu may have finally balked at the deluge of criticisms which has trailed his technical capabilities in handling the team from Nigerians as he announced that there will be changes in the squad that will battle Ghana in today’s semi final clash in Luanda, Angola.

The recent attempt by a Nigerian youngster, Farouk Abdulmutallab, to bomb an American Delta airline on December 25, 2009 has no doubt brought Nigeria in confrontation with world power, USA. The commotion has even resulted in former American attaché to USA embassy in Nigeria, Ambassador, Princeton Lyman telling Nigeria that it is fast becoming irrelevant in the world.

The Nigeria national team campaigning at the on-going Africa Cup of Nations in Angola will today take on arch-rivals, Ghana in the second semi final match of the tournament. Many Nigerians, home and abroad see the encounter as a big test for the coach Shaibu Amodu team which had tottered and wobbled all through.

The event which was attended by the state governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola and the deputy governor, Mrs.. Serah Sosan also attracted eminent personalities from various ministries and parastatals of the government, and those who have contributed in various ways in Governor Fashola administration’s efforts on massive job creation and poverty alleviation in the state, particularly through the use of information and communication technology.

TWO years after the Federal Government announced the conversion of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos and Kaduna Polytechnic to full fledged universities, the National Assembly is yet to see through the enabling act that will give legal teeth to this policy statement.

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has started a campaign on social protection for migrant workers. The launch of this campaign coincided with the International Migrants’ Day, marked December 18, 2009 .
Before then, the International Labour Organisation during its annual conference in 2004 adopted a “ Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration which is a part of a plan of action for migrant workers agreed by
ILO constituents”.

STUDENTS who just graduated from the University of Lagos have been advised to become self-reliant and employer of labour instead of roaming about the streets in search of the elusive white collar jobs.

The British Trade Union Congress ( TUC) has cautioned the government against any drop in resources meant to sustain the unemployed even as it is hopeful that more people will find jobs this month of January.

MISTER Esai Dangaba, recently, retired as Director of the Police Pensions Office(PPO), after over thirty years service to the nation in various capacities. The retired Director of PPO, who was born 58 years ago in Akko local government area of Gombe state, started his career as a teacher before joining the core civil service where he started as a deputy clerk of the Bauchi State House of Assembly in 1979 until he attained the position of a Director in 1997.

IF full deregulation of the downstream sec tor does not commence, the intermittent scarcity of petroleum product will remain with us”. This is the position of Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, the body responsible for 57 per cent of petroleum products imported into the country.

MANAGEMENT of Folio Communications Ltd, has paid a total of N24,548,600.00 as part of the outstanding salary arrears and benefits to former and current staff of Daily Times ahead of planned return of the nation’s foremost Newspaper to news stand.

By Emmanuel Edukugho The crisis rocking the Nigerian French Village following allegations of corruption made against the management by 32 lecturers is now being investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).