A ahead of President Goodluck Jonathan’s imminent formal declaration of his ambition for the 2011 presidential race, a group, Nigerian Youth Initiative for Goodluck has said it was mobilizing youths across the country for a 5 million_man match on Abuja, the nation’s capital to make his declaration thick.

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission chief says she ex pects to publish a KPMG stock exchange audit in just over six weeks, citing public demand after a 2008 crash and the firing of the bourse chief.

Chief Martin Onovo, a petroleum engineer and national leader of the Strategic Union of Professionals for the Advancement of Nigeria, SUPA, argues, in this interview, that planned deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil industry would cause more hardship to Nigerians.

As at now, in the interest of the PDP, a Northerner has to be the candidate; Jonathan should go and declare on another platform

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

Nigeria is inviting Koreans in electricity generation and distribution including construction of new hydro plants, coal power plants, solar and wind power plants.

It has been used often to conjure the spectre of discrimination to attract sympathy for a just claim and, at times, for an unmerited advantage. One can hardly fault that stance though, since self-love is hardly as unprofitable as self-neglect.

This followed revelations that most of the serving DIG’s and senior AIG’s have secretly expressed their willingness to continue in office if given the green light regardless of seniority in the force. Saturday Vanguard learnt reliably that, intense lobbying had already commenced amongst the hierarchy of the police force over their continuity in office.

A member of the dissolved Board of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Dr. Peter Singabele has said that members of the board disregarded the Lagos High Court injunction that the August 26 election of the association should not hold because of their selfish interests.

Heartland FC Coach, Samson Siasia and his boys spent time working in the gym on Friday morning at Cairo’s Le Meridien Holiopolis, in a last ditch effort by the Nigerian side to confirm fitness level before Sunday’s game against Al Ahly of Egypt.

What policing means is that you have the equipment, you have trained and trainable manpower and you support them with vehicles and all the rest of them and communication.
But these were lacking; so when robbery, for instance is committed, they block roads and they are now entangled.

Events unfolding about the way Nigeria’s football was mismanaged was unfolded on these pages before the kick off of the 2010 World Cup but officials of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA called us names including that this writer is an agent of the Director-General, Chief Patrick Ekeji.

FOLLOWING the abduction of the Chief Medical Director of the Federal Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu Benin City, Dr (Mrs) Olabisi Ihenyen and her husband, Dr Lionel Ihenyen, by suspected kidnappers Thursday evening, doctors in Edo State have have gone on strike in protest over their abduction.

The Nigeria Football Association, NFA is like the nose of a dog, black, and no matter how hard you try to clean it, it will never get white. The NFA house is dirty, full of deceit and fraud and my friend and colleague, Ademola Olajire has been saddled with the daunting task of trying to wipe it clean.

As Nigeria gets set to mark her jubilee anniversary as a nation, a special Argungun motor rally will be staged in honour of quartet Nigeria’s foremost nationalists, Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and Saudarna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello.