Nelson Mandela yesterday, turned up at the World Cup closing ceremony to greet his fans.The former South African president was smiling as he was driven across the pitch in a golf cart with his wife, Grace Machel.

Days after his impeachment from the Nigeria Football Association, Amanze Uchegbulam is full of praises for Patrick Ekeji, the Director-General of the National Sports Commission and a member of the Presidential Task Force that engineered the on-going changes in the football house.
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MOVEMENT for No Arms Struggle of Niger Delta has charged President Goodluck Jonathan not to focus all his attention on the region alone, to avoid being seen as a regional President.

Nigerian-born CAF and FIFA executive committee member, Dr Amos Adamu has said that the world football governing body was not in any way against Nigeria as a country.

FIFA and CAF Executive Committee member, Dr Amos Adamu has charged officials of the Nigeria Football Association to clear themselves on allegations of corruption in order to put those in football administration in good light.

THE people of Anioma under the auspices of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta North Stakeholders Forum, have nominated Chief Ovie Omo-Agege as their choice candidate for the 2011 gubernatorial election in the state.

A youth group,Youths Ask for Goodluck, YAG, has fingered the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan as the best choice candidate for the Aso Rock Villa in 2011.

The Supreme Court, last Friday, okayed death by hanging for a convicted armed robber, Mr Olayinka Afolalu, for dispossessing a woman of her N1,750.00 at gun point.

A faction of the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, led by Chief Biodun Ogunbiyi as National Chairman, has weekend, dissolved into the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in order to help in actualising the presidential ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 general elections.

Nigeria’s trade and investment relation with the rest of the world fell significantly in the first three months of the year, with foreign direct investments taking more of the heat as it dropped by 65 per cent.

Sometimes last year, the government actually admitted that over 90% of all new jobs in the country were being accounted for by the informal economy.

Cattle business, no doubt, is a big business employing a large number of people across the nation, especially in the Sudan and Sahel Savannah areas of the north where it is common to see entire families or communities earning their livelihood from cattle rearing.

FOUR executive committee members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, were, yesterday, abducted by kidnappers who attacked them at Umuafouka junction near Ukwakiri in Obingwa Local Government Council of Abia State.

Stockbrokers have come under the scrutiny of the investing public and the regulatory authorities in recent time as a result of despicable acts by some of them that worked against the rules of the market.

Teaching crafts is not a vocation or business you find the average Nigerian engaged in, but for Mrs. Modupe Adekunle, an English graduate, the desire to see children master little creative and home keeping skills gave birth to Kraftplus, a multi-creativity centre for children.
According to Modupe, her interest in handcraft was triggered by her mother who always told her that whatever she did with her hands would always feed her.