Baring any positive twist from what is currently on ground, the $2.5b sale of Nigeria’s national telecommunications carrier, Nitel to New Generations telecom may hit the rocks. This is as fresh information Vanguard gathered from Abuja, indicates that the interests that want the sale of Nitel revoked to apparently favour an indigenous player are getting strong backing from powerful people in government.

One of Nigeria’s CDMA operator’s Visafone said it has extended its network coverage to Maiduguri, capital of Bornu State. The telecoms operator says it is entering the historic town with exciting and affordable packages tailored to meet the communication needs of the residents and further facilitate their contacts with friends and loved ones.

National Telecommunications Operator, Globacom will be a key participant at this year’s edition of the Kaduna International Trade Fair which opens on Friday, February 19 and ends on Sunday, February 28.

As technology is permeating every sector of life, creating unimaginable transformations, the marriage institution should not be left out. And that could be why a frontline internet services provider, iWay Africa recently introduced a website which provides the opportunity for couples who have not tied their nuptial knots to have a celebrity wedding worth over N4m.

Former minister of sports, Bala Ka’oje, has criticised the Nigeria Football Federation over the manner they have been going about the engagement of a new technical manager for the national team.

Super Eagles’ captain, Nwankwo Kanu, has said that he prefers an hospital built in the name of the Kanu Heart Foundation, to winnning a World Cup medal with the Nigerian team in South Africa.

Italian Ariggo Sacchi and Englishman Glenn Hoddle have become the latest names to be associated with the Nigerian national team coaching job, although the Italian has made it clear he will not be coming to Abuja to attend a scheduled interview.

ABUJA — Amidst doubt that the redeployed Eagles’ technical crew would shun their new posting, the team’s chief coach, Shaibu Amodu, and his technical assistants have reported at the Nigeria Football Federation secretariat to indicate interest in their new assignment just as some of the players were disgusted over the presence of their new head coach.

Athletes from competing companies literally lit up the Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere, as the final of men and women100 metres dash and the 4×100 metres relay races held on the closing day of the 13th Nigeria Oil and Gas Games in Lagos.

BENIN—Alhaji Simple Kanabe, member of the South South Peoples Assembly, SSPA, has advised Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to implement the amnesty programme, as enunciated by President Umaru Yar’Adua. Kanabe, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Benin, urged Jonathan to give the Nigeria Delta people succour, as […]

A new ferry boat scheme has been launched in Bayelsa State to ease water transportation in the state.

YOUTHS from the five ethnic groups in Delta State have unanimously endorsed Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan for a second term in office, saying this was because of his outstanding performance, even as they have vowed to resist any attempt to impose any legislator on them for a third or fourth term bid.

The Elders’ Council of the People Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun East, has said the attack unleashed on the delegation of Ogun State to the burial of late Dipo Dina was a ploy to divert attention of the law enforcement agencies from the real killers of the deceased.

LETUGBENE community in Ekeremor local government area of Bayelsa state has been thrown into predicament following the sacking of the traditional ruler, His Royal Highness, Stephen French Tume by the elders, leaders and people of the town over alleged unethical conducts and disagreement with his leadership style.

One person simply identified as Papa Oyekachi, was Sunday burnt to death and property which monetary value could not be immediately ascertained destroyed when an afternoon inferno gutted a storey building situated at No 1, Cardoso street, Kirikiri town, Lagos State.