By Providence Obuh Transaction on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) resumed the week on a bearish note as equities’ value, represented by the market capitalisation, dipped Monday, by N19.69 billion.

August 11 friendly South Korea football federation has insisted that Nigeria, parade the same players that featured in the 2010 World Cup group B encounter in a proposed August 11 international friendly in Seoul, South Korea.

At last, Hajia Labara, mother of the former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association is a free woman after close to two weeks in the hands of dare-devil kidnappers.

THE people of Ogulagha Kindom in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State have vowed to resist any attempt by the state oil intervention agency, DESOPADEC, to further marginalise them, saying that no viable projects commensurate with their oil production quota have been allocated to them.

THE Ini-tiative for Better Power Supply, a non-governmental organisation, has appealed to workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, to suspend their planned strike action in the interest of power consumers.

The national female U-20 football team, the Falconets arrived Bochum Monday ahead of today’s group C match with Las Aztecas of Mexico. The encounter that will decide the group and probably a fourth successive quarter_final place for the Nigerian girls.

Kenyan’s Mercy Cherono won the first medal of the IAAF World Junior Championships, which began Monday in Moncton, Canada with Nigeria presenting 16 athletes.

Ndokwa National Union, a socio-cultural organisation has called on the Federal Government to continue to promote free and fair election, saying that the stability of any democratic process is a function of free and fair election.

After a hard fought season that earned them a CAF Champions League slot, players and officials of Kano Pillars were set free for a two-week break to enable them reunite with their families and loved ones with bags of goodies.

THOUSANDS of Itsekiri men, women and youths from over 23 oil producing communities in Delta State, yesterday, stormed the Warri Area office of the Niger Delta Ministry in a peaceful protest, over the non-inclusion of any of their villages in the recently advertised projects billed to be awarded soon by the Ministry.

Tin-can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has fallen short of its revenue collection target of N70 billion in five months by N14 billion.

As a means of providing a lasting solution to the perennial power failure in the country, Lagos Television (LTV) in conjunction with Folub Eletrik Servz is set to host stakeholders in the power generation sector so as to provide an alternative source of power supply in the second edition of its Power Exhibition.

TRADERS in Ajegunle area of Lagos and its environs have petitioned Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, seeking his intervention in what they perceived as multiple taxations in the local government following alleged new tax regime introduced by the Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Authority.

While the debate on electoral reforms is going in the national assembly, how best to realize a stable democratic political system in Nigeria through IT tools and strategies has continued to be a major concern of stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry, especially the Nigerian Computer Society.

In a bid to ensure that the citizens of Niger State are empowered with IT knowledge and skills needed to face the 21st century knowledge economy, Nigerian PCs assembler, Brian Integrated Systems Limited had signed an MOU with the Niger State Government on a computer ownership scheme that will benefitted civil servants.