Head coach John Obuh has invited 21 players for the national U-20 men’s team, Flying Eagles, as he starts the preparations for next year’s African Youth Championship.

Barely 24 hours after Endurance Idahor and Alili Galadima were buried in Benin and Kano respectively, Zamfara United player Kayode Irekperu died on Sunday night in Gusau.

Nigeria Football Federation technical committee chairman, Taiwo Ogunjobi, said that it was not over for the home-based Eagles in CAF Championships of African Nations CHAN.

THE leadership tussle in Anambra State’ Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, appears to have taken a clannish dimension, as leaders of thought in Agulu community, the home town of Professor Dora Akunyili, Minister of Information and Communications, have warned the gubernatorial candidate of PDP in the February 6 governorship election in the state, Professor Chukwuma Soludo to leave their daughter alone or be prepared for a showdown.

I am a faithful reader of your column because of the sound advice you often give. On a few occasions, however, it seems you believe a girl having three or more lovers before wedlock is taken as the norm. Don’t you think this is very wrong? With such easy pickings, men must be having the time of their lives-except when they catch a disease along the way.

Oyuiki Obaseki’s tenure as chairman of the Nigeria Premier League expired on Monday night, and following the official dissolution of his executive committee, NPL sources say a far-reaching probe of his tenure will be carried out in the coming days.

Despite losing 2-0 to Niger Tornadoes last weekend, the chief executive officer of Rangers International Football Club of Enugu, Ozor Paul Chibuzor, has said the loss cannot truncate their desire to win a continental ticket this season.

Recently, leading manufacturer of electronics and home appliances, Samsung held the draw of its Win-A-Milli Promo for its customers at Planet 1, Lagos where three millionaires emerged. The Managing Director of the company, Peter Lee shortly after the event spoke to journalist on the benefits of the promo to Nigerians, reason for the promo, challenges in the telecom market among other issues, Emmanuel Elebeke was there. Excerpts:

Again, activities of street hawkings in the streets Nigerian Silicon Valley, the Nigerian Computer Village Ikeja are still disrupting free movement of goods and persons despite ban by the Lagos State Ministry of Environment, Vanguard CyberLIFE findings can now reveal.

At the just concluded 2010 edition of Cebit trade exhibition held in Hannover, Germany, the German district of Brandenburg was trialling the open source Navit car navigation system for its Police System

Except for some few innovations in recent times, technology has always sounded hoarse and scary to almost all Nigerians who ten years ago were actually out of the world ICT order. But the debut of Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM, in 2001, however tried to demystify the tech-scare, bracing all odds to make even the rural women users of technologies that were hitherto considered exclusive rights of the elite class.

information reaching Cyberlife has indicated a series of silent battles going on between some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country and a group of super-brilliant Nigerians who are hard at work hacking into the different servers of these Internet Providers obtaining their IP addresses, proxy codes, numbers and addresses and selling same to interested buyers.

Kofi Anan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, defined the information society as that through which “human capacity is expanded, built up, nourished and liberated, by giving people access to the tools and technologies they need, with the education and training to use them effectively.”

There has been excitement in the air as the Nigerian IT community awaits the launch of e-Knowledge – Time is Running book, a compendium of the writings of Christopher Maduabunachukwu Uwaje _ popularly known as the Nigeria IT Oracle.

Nigeria’s first national telecommunications carrier, NITEL is synonymous with stalemate. From the first attempt at selling the national carrier when it became obvious that continuing allowing government to manage the success of the institution would mean extension of the rape of its economy, there has never been a sweet story.