Nigerian football is under siege. With court cases hanging on the necks of impeached former officials of the Nigeria Football Federation and the last board elections quashed by a Lagos High Court, there don’t seem to be any easy way out of the logjam.

The Nigerian Guild of Editors has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to faithfully discharge its duties in conducting credible, free and fair elections in the 2011 general elections.

First Vice President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Comrade Abdulahi Bungundu, yesterday told newsmen that the apex labour body failed to act on alleged corruption charges against the present Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, because investigations were on-going, unlike that of his predecessor, Patricia Etteh.

Nigeria caretaker coach, Austin Eguavoen, will name his squad for next month’s crucial 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier away to Guinea on Thursday with Obinna Nsofor likely to be recalled, officials have disclosed.

Bello Garba Bello (Baba), the 22-year-old son of Garba Bello, the slain State Security Service, SSS, officer alleged to have slaughtered his biological parents alongside three siblings in Kano last week was, yesterday, docked before a Magistrate court in Kano.

Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has spoken of the need to strengthen the squad, if there was to be an improvement on their outing against Madagascar.

Three high chiefs have been suspended from office indefinitely by Emure-Ekiti monarch, in Ekiti State, Oba Emmanuel Adebowale Adebayo, for allegedly impersonating the monarch before the state governor, Engr Segun Oni.

A Port Harcourt-based legal luminary, Sebastine Hon, SAN, has described as illegal the Independent National Electoral Commission’s, INEC, decision to conduct governorship elections in Sokoto, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Kogi, Cross River and Adamawa states.

The shares of Oando Plc has been declared to be under priced at the stock market, a development capital market operators blamed on the economy and trend of the current market situation which has been on the bearish note.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has assured of its commitment to encourage upstream oil & gas, and telecommunication companies to list in Nigeria to diversify the sector distribution of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE).

Oxford Business Group (OBG) has expanded its operations in Nigeria as it prepares to publish its second report on the country’s economic activity and investment opportunities.

FORMER Chief of General Staff, Admiral Mike Akhigbe, has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ensure that the crisis bedeviling the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in some states are settled before the presidential primaries of the party, warning that it will be disastrous for the party if “fake” delegates were allowed to vote in the presidential primaries.

To reposition its operations for better service delivery, the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Seme Border Command, has unfolded a three-fold mission of suppression of smuggling, collection of the maximum derivable revenue and accounting for same.

Detectives at the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti Yaba, have arrested a man who allegedly beat his wife to death, weekend, at Igbogbo area of Lagos State.

Striker of relegated Bayelsa United, Stanley Ohawuchi, could team up with either title holder, Enyimba or Heartland Football for the 2010/2011 Nigeria Premier League (NPL) season.