I DON’T know what to tell sports minister, Ibrahim Isa Bio. But I will prefer that he talks less especially on technical matters.

As my esteemed media colleague, Simon Kolawole of ThisDay newspaper pointed out in his column last Sunday: “The PDP crisis…is not about food on the table for ordinary Nigerians. It is not about roads and water and electricity and schools and hospitals. It is just about intrigues and self-interest. We have seen this before. Those who benefitted extensively from the ‘impunity’ in the PDP become reformers when things don’t go their way.”.

A LEADER of the Congress of Niger Delta Elements, CONDE, one of the pressure groups agitating for resource control in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria, Mr Efosa Isaac Orhuozee, who went into hiding in the wake of the 2009 clamp down on activists by the Joint Military Task Force on Niger Delta (JTF), is alive and well.

Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, yesterday, passed a vote of no confidence in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly.
IYC lamented that if the State House of Assembly had diligently carried out its oversight functions, situations in the state would not have been as bad as they were currently.

By Emmanuel Elebeke  LAGOS —  VICE-PRESIDENT, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and General Superintendent of  Christ Holy Church International, Most Rev. Daniel Okoh, has called for transparency in the fight against corruption, saying there is too much politics in the fight.  Okoh who spoke during the dedication ceremony of the Christ Holy Church headquarters cathedral […]

By Sam Eyoboka  LAGOS-WORRIED by current challenges posed by globalization, academicians in West Africa have been tasked with responsibility of combining forces to develop new strategies to tackle underdevelopment in the region.  Addressing a sensitization meeting on ECOWAS Regional Symposium on Development yesterday in Lagos, a former Senegalese university don and chairman of the Scientific […]

By Evelyn Usman  LAGOS — The hitherto traffic congestion along the Mile Two- Badagry expressway will soon be a thing of the past if the promise by the Minister of Works and Housing, Senator Sanusi Daggash, that the Federal Government is partnering with the Lagos State government to commence work on the road, is any […]

 By Daniel Idonor  ABUJA—ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the Federal Government delegation to the 2009 Christian Pilgrimage to Israel and thanked the committee for maintaining a good standard. Jonathan who said he was impressed that the exercise was without a major scandal, spoke when he received the report of the 2009 Christian Pilgrimage to […]

Sports Minister Ibrahim Isa Bio will today, in Johannesburg, lead a Nigerian delegation to FIFA office.
They are meeting with FIFA’s Competition Department which already has office in Johannesburg.

Triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt has revealed that he will be supporting Argentina at the forthcoming football World Cup in South Africa.

AS the zero hour to the World Cup approaches swiftly, Green Eagles boss Lars Lagerback has hinted that he would not tolerate distraction in the Eagles camp in Durban and the World Cup proper. The Swede whose World Cup prep begins May 21 in the Sun City has declared that it would be strictly off limits to wives of players and girlfriends.

Former Super Eagles defence ace, Chidi Nwanu has warned Coach Lars Lagerback to do away with sentimental emotions if his arduous task of tinkering the Super Eagles to enviable heights at the 2010 World Cup is to materialise.

The Federal Government has declared Monday, 3 May as public holiday to mark this year’s Workers’ Day.
The Minister of Interior, Mr. Emmanuel Ihenacho, who made the declaration on behalf of the government,yesterday, praised the resilience of Nigerian workers at home and abroad, while wishing them a joyous celebration.

ABUJA—DEPOSITORS of Savannah Bank Plc would soon have their accounts activated as the bank, yesterday, reached final arrangements to resume operations, after more than eight years of waiting.

The Nigeria Football Federation Thursday lambasted a report in a national newspaper claiming that the Hampshire Hotel which it secured for the Super Eagles as Team Base Camp for this summer’s World Cup finals in South Africa cost 66 British Pounds per night.