Despite the general gloom that enveloped the Nigerian national team following the poor performance at the South Africa 2010 World Cup, there some positives in the make up of the coach Lars Lagerback squad to the Mundial.

DESPITE public outcry, the House of Representatives, yesterday, approved a presidential proposal to spend N10bilion to prepare for the nation’s 50 Independence celebrations.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday in Lagos, gave the management of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, two weeks to ensure that Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Chevron/Texaco, Agip Energy & Natural Resources and 18 other firms pay dockworkers for tonnage handled in off-shore operations for the past three years.

The accounts of the Presidential Task Force on the 2010 FIFA World Cup would be published in selected Nigerian newspapers when it rounds off its activities, the PTF said yesterday..

Ubogwu community, Awo-Omamma, Oru East local government area of Imo State, has been thrown into deep mourning following the shooting of a six-year-old primary two pupil of Ubogwu Primary School, Master Chidalu Nwosu, by a hunter (names withheld).

An early morning fire, Tuesday, burnt the press hall of The Sun newspapers, destroying equipment and other valuables worth millions of Naira.

Despite the general gloom that enveloped the Nigerian national team following the poor performance at the South Africa 2010 World Cup, there some positives in the make up of the coach Lars Lagerback squad to the Mundial.

WHILE the Federal Government seeks solutions from the private sector to the nation’s identity management crisis, winds are already being taken out of its sails with last Friday’s launching of the Edo State Citizens Identification Card by state governor, Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole

Mobil Producing Nigeria, MPN, has confirmed a second oil spill within a week in the Qua Iboe oil fields.
In a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Eket, Mobil confirmed a discharge of crude into the Atlantic Ocean from Yoho crude production platform.

Last week, the Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union, ITU , Dr. Hamadoun Toure was in Ouagoudogu, the Burkina Faso capital, for the African ICT Best Practices forum 2010.