Chile defeated Switzerland by a lone goal scored at the 74′ by Mark González

IT is very easy as a pundit in Nigeria, nay Africa, to get carried away with the ceremonies of self-worth, and be largely overwhelmed by the need to preen, sometimes put on angst for the consumption of those hungry for choice morsels to assuage genuine anger.

THE District Head of Monguno Local Government Area of Borno State, Alhaji Abba Kyari Umar, and his subjects have commended the state government in its efforts towards fighting the six killer diseases in Borno State

Portugal, Monday, handed out North Korea’s worst defeat in the World cup with a 7-0 win over the Koreans.

It is however, Portugal’s biggest ever win in the World cup, as Ronaldo after a two-year goal drought, finally finds the net in his country’s 2nd Group G match at Green Point Stadium, Cape Town .

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, asked those urging him to declare his intention for the Presidency in 2011 to wait for a while. Reason: He did not want to stop the wheel of development and hinder governance in the country.

A Kano Magistrate Court has sentenced a fake medical doctor, Ibrahim Muhammad, to seven years imprisonment on a three-count charge of operating illegal clinics at a motor park, selling drugs in an area prohibited by law as well selling dangerous drugs to the public contrary to the provision of Patent Medicine Vendors Licence Guidelines.

BARRING last-minute hitches, Prof Attahiru Jega will be cleared and appointed National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, tomorrow. President Goodluck Jonathan nominated him for the prime position a fortnight ago and his nomination had been endorsed by the National Council of State.

INDICATIONS are that the Korean firm handling Chevron Nigeria Limited’s, CNL, implementation of the Domestic Gas Supply Obligation, DSO, as well as the company’s Gas Supply Expansion Project modularisation, GSEP, may have deliberately sabotaged the Nigerian Content Act to ensure most, if not all the scope of work to be done is carried out in Korea.

FIRST, the site was the old Effurun Motor Park. It was very popular serving travellers from Warri, Agbarho, Ughelli, Ozoro, Oleh, Lagos, Ibadan and a few from the North and the South East. But unfortunately, it became subsumed by its own popularity as its handlers in the name of agboro rivalry made it a theatre of constant war of attrition.

ITSEKIRI in their thousands will today gather at Aja-Olugbeti, Koko, in Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State, to witness the ground-breaking ceremony of the Koko-Ogheye Road project awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission, NNDC.

GENEVA—The International Labour Organisation, ILO, has advised member-nations including Nigeria, to put in place policies that would create jobs and offer social protection in their efforts at economic recovery.

Six gunmen, yesterday, stormed the Ebenezer African Church Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, and killed Mr. Paul Inyang, former Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, South-South Zonal Secretary, during service.

Members of the House of Representatives under the auspices of Progressives, plotting the removal of Speaker, Dimeji Bankole have vowed to resist any plot to suspend them for demanding ‘accountability’ from their principal.

On the converse, Dr. Fayemi and the Action Congress could do well to focus their attention on the 2011 House of Assembly, House of Representatives and Senatorial Elections. By their own action the governorship elections which would have held next year 2010 would now have to wait till 2013! This would give Governor Segun Oni more time to carry out more programmes that would endear him to the people of the state and make his unseating in a future election more difficult. In the final analysis these unending law suits would serve no useful purpose other than become perhaps the sword of Damocles

An Abuja-based lawyer and social critic, Prince Orji Nwafor-Orizu yesterday assessed the performance of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its fight against corruption and declared that the anti-graft agency had failed woefully.