Argentina coach Diego Maradona singled out Eagles keeper, Vincent Enyeama for praise following his excellent performance in yesterday’s group B opener at the Ellis’s Park in Durban.

We have done nothing to address the danger those powers have posed. Then came Professor Okon Uya. His tenure lasted a few months. Abacha did not conduct any elections before he died, but he had packaged a programme which would have had him in power with Chief Sumner Dagogo-Jack as a willing instrument. From 1999 elections, through 2003 to 2007, we have had three electoral commission chairmen – Ephraim Akpata, Abel Guaobadia and Maurice Iwu

Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare yesterday won the women 100m race at the NCAA track and field championships in Eugene, Oregun USA with a time of 10.98 seconds.

A NINETEEN Years old, Mr Egade Lucky has excreted 71 wraps of cocaine weighing 962 grammes at the Port Harcourt International airport, Port Harcourt. He was due to board an Air France flight to Paris before he was apprehended at the airport during clearance by men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA

THE Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, and the Tor Tiv IV, Dr. Alfred Akawe Torkula, has called for a review of the single five_year term of office for Vice_Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, saying that thee is need for a second term for the vice chancellors who do well in their first term

In the bigger picture it may not be great news internationally after all more people die daily in Baghdad or Pakistan but it should scare us a lot more! The world has come to terms with the poison of religious fanaticism and violent crime is often no longer shocking but an emergence of killers like Derrick Bird should scare all of us.

Super Eagles goalkeeper, Vincent Enyeama today displayed some heroics to check Argentina’s talisman Lionel Messi to keep the scoreline low at 1-0 following the stunning low header by Gabriel Heinze inside Johannesburg’s packed Ellis Park stadium.

Twenty five year old Sandra Iwu kicked off her modeling career with Catwalk Studio in Ikeja. She has since grown into a model who can hold her own. A regular face on the Nigerian runway, Sandra has participated in over 40 fashion shows and has plied her trade outside the shores of Nigeria. In 2006, she was crowned, Most Beautiful Girl in LASU. The 5ft 10 inches model, now runs her own modeling agency called Sim Model .

President Goodluck Jonathan may have dithered on the introduction of a national policy on migration, within and outside Nigeria which is aimed at optimizing the gains of the Diaspora community.

ACADEMIC activities in the Delta State Colleges of Education, Mosogar, Warri and Agbor and in the three Delta State Polytechnics of Ozoro, Ogwashi-Uku and Otefe-Oghara may be disrupted as the Academic Staff Unions of the institutions embark on a warning strike tomorrow in protest against the non implementation of the new salary structure, CONPCASS for its staff members by the state government.

A reports of how radical university teacher and activist, Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega, finally emerged as national chairman designate of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC; and how Buhkari Bello, another feisty member of the human rights community lost out.

If you have been reading my column you have heard me mention before that when zwe were children the adults in our lives (parents, teachers, pastors and others) played a major role in telling us who we are. The image of ourselves we develop and carry is based on what we were told repeatedly during our formative years.

It was alleged that all efforts made by the Police to ensure that the child survived failed as the baby later died. The Police image maker advised young girls against unwanted pregnancies and dumping of their babies in toilets or in uncompleted buildings after birth, and he described the action of the suspect as criminal. This advice was given as the poor mother was paraded before newsmen, and in an interview with newsmen, she regretted her action and begged for forgiveness.

Chief Ayo Adebanjo is an Afenifere leader and remains one of the most consistent leaders in Yoruba land. You may not agree with his views but he is consistent. As Nigeria marks the 17th anniversary of the June 12, 1993 Presidential elections, Adebanjo makes some revelations. He told Sunday Vanguard that on the day of the annulment, he, Adebanjo, “could not believe that such an election had been annulled”. “When I met Duro Onabule the following day or was it on that day of the annulment, I asked him if it is true that the election had been annulled and he also said it can not be true that the election had been annulled”, he told Sunday Vanguard..
Adebanjo insists that Nigerians have not learnt anything from the experiences of the June 12 presidential elections.

Bejeweled pieces are a hit anytime. This time, they have returned brighter, bolder and more elegant. Dresses are not just embellished now, but are often completely encrusted by jewels.