Running in its eighth series, Imagine Cup is one way Microsoft encourages young talents globally to apply their imagination, passion, and their creative technology innovations that can make a difference in solving the Millennium Development Goals, (MDGS) including poverty, disease, education, among others.

Sports minister and National Sports Commission chairman Ibrahim Isa Bio said over the weekend that Nigeria will cooperate with World Soccer ruling body FIFA to resolve the crisis in Nigeria football.

Where there is paucity of in formation, rumours flourish. This appears to be the situation currently playing out in Lagos State . Early this year papers were flooded with alleged face-off between the former and incumbent governors of the state – Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Raji Babatunde Fashola. Like every tainted tale, the rumoured fight between Tinubu and Fashola withered away like flower which lifespan has expired.

A new Head of Service has been appointed and sworn-in in Enugu State. He is Mr. Sylvanus Onoyima. Until his appointment, Onoyima was permanent secretary in charge of Establishments, Pensions and Training Bureau in the Office of the Head of Service

After Nigeria’s Super Eagles’ first match against Argentina in the on-going football World Cup (SA 2010), some writers and analysts were quick to impress it on enthusiasts that they saw significant impact of coaching on our boys. Personally, I saw much less of that. What I saw was much more the impact of some marginal shift in attitude. Imagine a Super Eagles team playing with the same zeal, commitment, uncompromising attitude and dogged spirit as our politicians and rulers deploy in election rigging and treasury looting!

ABIA State government says it has no dealing with arms dealers, just as it challenged those in Enugu who claimed that they supplied arms to the government to come up with genuine proof.

Gov. Peter Obi says it is crime and mortal sin for those in authority to owe pensioners. Handing cheques of N250 million to local government pensioners in the state at Awka, the governor aplogised to pensioners in Anambra State for the shabby way they had been treated in the past.

Ministers of God’s Kingdom Society (GKS) rose at the end of their annual conference with a charge to President Goodluck Jonathan to prosecute “with diligence and sincerity of purpose” his promise to ensure free and fair elections next year even as they warned kidnappers of the dire spiritual consequences of their nefarious acts.

THE conviviality and camaraderie that had existed in the 34-year old umbrella body of Christians in Nigeria, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is being threatened by alleged underground manouevre by the outgoing National President, Most Rev. John Onaiyekan to hold on to power despite his defeat at the Electoral College by his more acceptable rival and National President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.

PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, Most Rev. Sunday Ola Makinde has condemned the recent act of indiscipline exhibited by members of the House of Representatives, describing the show of shame as political indiscipline of the highest order.