No fewer than 4,157 exhibitors from from 68 different nations around the world converged this morning at the CeBIT 2010 annual ICT trade exhibition taking place in Hannover, Germany showcasing digital world.

The Presidential Task Force has endorsed the choice of Lars Lagerback as the coach of the Eagles to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Newly contracted Eagles’ Technical Adviser, Lars Lagerback, has declared that he would put in 100 per cent efforts to ensure the team have a good outing in the forthcoming 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Former national team handler, Paul Hamilton, has advised the new technical manager of the national team, Lars Lagerback, to always have at the back of his mind the target set for him by his employers.

Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Sports has welcomed the appointment of Swede Coach Lars Lagerback saying it was the desire of most Nigerians to have a technical coach to again raise the image of Nigerian football.

Over 48 tons of equipment and a crew of 115 are expected to arrive the Kotoka International airport in Accra, Ghana, today, March 3, for the staging of the 2009 Glo-CAF Awards ceremony, says an official of the event management agency, True Colour Events. Bobby Scott, the Chief Executive Officer of True Colour Events, the South Africa-based company, revealed that the equipment which will arrive aboard a chartered cargo airplane will be moved to an appointed warehouse from where the crew will start setting up for the show.

Activity on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed the week on a bullish note, as the value of listed equities appreciated, Monday, by N2.59 billion.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has frozen all accounts of crisis-ridden Ijebu-East Local Government following a petition sent to it by the suspended council Chairman, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye.

The Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Tuesday, faulted the award of N87 million insurance contract by the National Coordinator of National Poverty Alleviation Programme, NAPEP, Dr. Moses Kpakol to two incompetent insurance brokers.

The Institute of Loss Adjusters (ILAN) have recorded its first ever member who qualified through examination. It was a collaborative effort between the institute and Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigera, the education arm of the insurance industry.

The global economic crises has reinforced the need for international collaboration in resolving economic problem, say International Monetary Fund.

Immediate past Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa has denied jumping bail, affirming that he would neither turn a fugitive from the law nor go on exile because of the corruption charges against him.

Friends Africa, in partnership with Access Bank, has continued their support for development of workplace policies in HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as the touring and free workshop titled “Workplace Policies Development Workshop in AIDS, TB and Malaria” meant for business managers moves to Enugu between March 11 and 12.

Aftermath of consistent calls by several groups including the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, that last Wednesday’s deployment of troops in the airport during President Umaru Yar’adua’s return without the knowledge of Acting President Goodluck Jonathan be probed, Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Abdurahman Dambazau has stated that no amount of distraction will make the army via off its constitutional roles.

THE current hot weather being experienced in Lagos and other parts of the country has been linked to the El-niño phenomenon, described by experts as an unusual high pressure situation affecting all parts of the world though in different ways.