Indications from the headquarters of the Federation of International Football Associations, FIFA in Zurich, point to the fact that the world football governing body is not happy with recent developments in Nigeria, particularly the court case over the August 27 elections of the Nigeria Football Federation.

Obafemi Martins finally opened his account in the Russian League, converting a penalty for the final goal of the match as Rubin Kazan won 3-0 at home to Amkar Perm.

Ghana, the next host  of the second ECOWAS Games is considering including football among the events that would feature at the games in 2012. The Ghanaian deputy minister of sports, Nii Nortey Dua said last night after receiving the ECOWAS flag as a symbol of the next host, said “We wish to include football among […]

Former South African President Nelson Mandela, Prof. Wole Soyinka and Bishop Desmond Tutu will feature in the forthcoming AU-NEPAD summit in Nigeria, an official said.

MARITIME Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, weekend raised alarm over upsurge in arms imports into the country and other criminal activities by unscrupulous Nigerians in the midstream ahead of the general election and called on government to beam its security watch on midstream operation importers and oil companies.

The League of Traditional Rulers in Delta North Senatorial district has endorsed the candidacy of Dr. Cairo Ojougboh for Delta North Senatorial seat in the National Assembly in the 2011 general elections.

UNKNOWN gunmen, weekend in Effurun, Delta State, abducted a staff of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Fred Ejutemieden, and took him to an unknown destination while the police authorities have arrested four suspects with his brand new Toyota Camry car in Kaduna State.

Fifty years of independence and we are still crawling?” asked Pat, a commuter in an Ikeja-bound passenger bus while listening to an advert on radio about Nigeria’s forthcoming 50th independence anniversary celebration. “In what single area have we improved post-independence? Instead of all this noise, we should go to our closets and weep for our dear nation and what has become of what was once a promising nation.

POLITICAL leadership has been blamed for the problem of underdevelopment in the Niger Delta region.

THE Seriki-Muslimi of Ughelli Muslim community, Delta State, Alhaji Muhammadu Aruna, has charged politicians in the country to shun all forms of political violence in the forthcoming 2011 general elections.

chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Delta State, Peter Nwaoboshi, weekend, took a swipe at the Minister of Niger-Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, over what he called his regrettable actions.

Central Bank of Nigeria CBN will in January 2011, introduce three classes of banking licences. The licences will be for Commercial Banking, Merchant Banking, Specialised and Development Banking.

Today’s real borders are not between nations, but between powerful and powerless, free and fettered, privileged and humiliated.”

THE Director- General Director, the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), John Isemede, disclosed yesterday that most companies in the West African sub region have failed to achieve success because they have refused to recognize the need to register their membership with their countries’ Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Air Nigeria and Peugeot Automobile of Nigeria, PAN, are partnering on the celebration of Nigeria’s 50th independence anniversary, putting on offer a 307 Sedan Jubillee car and free return tickets as prizes.