Ahmed Yerima, currently a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and a former Governor of Zamfara State, has been widely reported in several media to have recently married a 13 year old girl from Egypt. We are informed that the child was imported along with about 30 members of her family, into Abuja in the Federal Capital Territory, for the ceremony of marriage that held at the National Mosque. Un-denied reports indicate that the distinguished Senator paid some $100,000 as dowry.

EX INTERNATIO-NAL, Henry Nwosu has predicted that the Eagles would not qualify for the quarter-final of the World Cup.

By Innocent Anaba The Nigerian Monthly Law Reports, NMLR, first published in 1964, but suspended publications in 1976, this week  hit the bookshops.  NMLR, which was also Nigeria’s first wholly privately-owned law reports, was the leading Nigerian law reports and earned a reputation as Nigeria’s foremost scholarly law reports. The founding editors of the NMLR […]

Kwara State shares one basic feature with some states ahead of the 2011 general elections. The states include Borno, Kano, Ogun and Osun, where the incumbent governors are not eligible for re-election in the forthcoming general elections. By the time the new elected public officials will be assuming office in May 2011, they would have exhausted the maximum of two terms of eight years the constitution allows them in office.

Goalkeepers: Vincent Enyeama (Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel), Dele Aiyenugba (Bnei Yehuda, Israel), Austin Ejide (Hapoel Petah Tikva, Israel), Bassey Akpan (Bayelsa United, Nigeria)