President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who is on a two-day working visit to Rivers State , has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of the state’s multimillion dollars monorail project, expected to be completed within three years.

With less than one month to the much anticipated kick off of the 2010 FIFA World in South Africa, more and more Nigerians have continued to lend their voices to the call for the Federal Government to take a more active role in mobilizing fans for the Super Eagles.

LEADING professional and civil society groups and activists in Nigeria have launched a campaign to “ensure the inclusion in the constitution of legally enforceable human rights such as such as environmental rights, the right to housing, health care among others.

Determined to ensure the ease of movement of travelling Nigerian fans to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Premium Sports Management Services (PSMS), sole managers of the Naija Fan Village in Durban, has announced plans to roll out 60 buses to take the fans to their various choice destinations during the duration of the soccer fiesta.

With more Nigerian ex players lambasting the Nigeria Football Association, NFA over the Hampshire Hotel scandal, world’s football governing body, FIFA said that it was the NFA that insisted it wanted the hotel for the Eagles.

Nigeria’s Asegun Comprehensive High School, Ibadan, were Monday crowned champions at the maiden edition of the Nestle Milo African U-13 Championship in South Africa.

Togo will compete in the next African Cup of Nations in 2012 after having their ban lifted with immediate effect. The decision to reinstate Togo was confirmed, as expected, by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) executive at a meeting in Cairo, Egypt.

While Super Eagles first World Cup opponents-Argentina, are already plotting how to humiliate Nigeria, former Super Eagles manager Chief Adegboye Onigbinde is at a loss about the players with whom Lars Lagerback wants to prosecute the World Cup.

The beleaguered golfer is said to have hired a lawyer specialising in international child custody arrangements.It is thought that Miss Nordegren would move back to her native Sweden, where she has been renovating a house, and proceedings could then be filed there.

Last Wednesday quietly marked a new era for the game of golf in Nigeria. This was the day the Sports Minister of Nigeria, Ibrahim Isa Bio and the spirit behind the Bolingo Hotels Group, Chief Okechukwu Igweh, agreed that golf among youths in Nigeria, is in dire need of total overhauling.