Green Eagles winger, Osaze Odemwingie has told Nigerians, still sulking over the team’s inglorious group stage exit at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa to come out of their depression and count themselves lucky to have their team amongst the privileged 32 nations who played at the first World Cup to hold on the African continent.

Golden Eaglets coach, Monday Odigie has confessed that he was still struggling to assemble a team that can prosecute a successful qualifying series ahead of next year’s CAN Under-17 Championship in Rwanda.

DO State government has advised members of the Caretaker Committee of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, in the state to do all that is possible to return peace to the association.

OVER one hundred placard-carrying students from the eight Izon oil producing kingdoms, under the aegis of Delta Izon Oil Producing Areas Students Union, DIOPASU, stormed the headquarters of the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC

New South Korea coach Cho Kwang-Rae wants to emulate the play of World Cup winners Spain, according to news agency Yonhap. He intends to start playing this style against Nigeria, when both teams clash in a friendly match on August 11 in Seoul.

Osun State Independent Electoral Commission, OSSIEC, has fixed December 18, 2010, for the conduct of fresh election in all the 30 local government councils including Ife Area Council of the state.

In his active days as Nigeria’s number one goalkeeper, he was known for his patriotism and the zeal to win. He emerged as the first choice keeper in the midst of very stiff competition from more experienced and equally talented goal tenders.

THE Ogun State Government Thursday said paucity of funds was hindering its importation of chemicals for water treatment, expressing fears of possible outbreak of cholera and other water-borne diseases.

The upward trend on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) continued, Wednesday, as the value of listed equities’ represented by the market capitalisation appreciated by N43.47 billion.

The former governor of Ekiti State, and leader of the Labour Party, LP, in the state, Mr Ayodele Fayose, has called on the youths to engage old politicians in political contest, even as he urged them to mobilise themselves to fight against electoral fraud.