Reports from Sky Sports News yesterday claimed that Nigerian and Inter Milan striker Victor Obinna has had a medical at West Ham.

Telecommunications giant, Globacom Limited, and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) are set to renew the sponsorship agreement for the annual African Football Awards, five years after both parties signed a historic agreement in Paris , France .

With only a month to go, for the Commonwealth Games billed for October 3-14 in New Delhi, India Nigerian elite athletes have vowed not to report to camp unless their allowances from the African Championships in Kenya were paid.

THE Pensioners’ Welfare Association of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has petitioned the Presidency just as it has also called for the removal of the Managing Director of the authority, Malam Abdulsalam Mohammed over the non-payment of their accrued pensions.

THE Seme border Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested one Chidebe Nwoye a 30 year old suspected drug trafficker at the Seme border with 1.6kg of raw cocain.

The Project Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development, Mr. Chukwuma Nduche, has urged Nigerians to channel their entrepreneurial skill in positive ventures that would grow the nation’s economy.

Investment value on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) nose dived ,Tuesday day, as equities value represented by the market capitalisation dropped by N115.69 billion.

The National Council on Privatisation (NCP) has approved the privatisation of the 11 distribution companies carved out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) has said.

The Plateau Coordinator, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Mr Sam Godongs, says the impact of mining activities in Plateau is allegedly threatening the achievement of the MDGs. Godongs, who said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos added that mining activities had done “irreparable damage” to the ecology of the state.

RIVERS state Police Command has confirmed the brutal murder of a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) and repentant militant leader, Soboma George. According to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Suleiman Abba, one of the heads of the late Soboma’s family, Chief Ibiere George was in his office yesterday to say that the family feared the late militant leader was assassinated on Tuesday evening along Nembe Street.