Former African queen of the tracks, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi has backed African 100m record holder, Olusoji Fasuba to make a strong comeback to the tracks.

Nollywood actress cum producer, Oby Edozieh,whose high budget movie, “Save Our Souls” identified with the plights of the cancer patients can be sure that she has no hiding place any more. Her cell number has become a formidable hot line of sorts.

Top Nigerian athletes are expecting to be paid their training grants, after the National Sports Commission, NSC agreed to an Athletics Federation=s proposal for the NSC to support the athletes towards the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics Games in 2012.

Athletics coach and former national hammer champion, Gabriel Opuana has lambasted organisers of the ECOWAS Games over the shoddy manner they handled Nigerian athletes during the event.

Nigerian women lived up to their billings at the maiden IAAF/VTB Continental Cup in Split, Croatia last weekend.

It was a celebration of some sort when news filtered into town that the controversial NFA elections has been annulled by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Monday afternoon.

Nkiru Asika, CEO Enterprise Creative, in this interview with Saturday Vanguard Business, explains what it takes to be successful in the creative sector. She also advises on what can be done to reduce high rate of unemployment in Nigeria. Excerpts:

The assistant secretary general of Airline Operators of Nigeria, Alhaji, Mohammed Tukur has appealed to airline operators in the country to embrace dialogue in resolving the controversial air terminal navigational charges as a way of encouraging the wind of change blowing in the sector

With its intention to offering customers with a variety of quality products, Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Nigeria’s No.1 noodle brand, Indomie instant noodles has re-introduced its Indomie Pepper Chicken Flavour into the market.

SWAP Technologies and Telecomms Limited has built its first independent cell sites in Cote d’Ivoire recently. SWAP which commenced telecoms services operations in Abidjan in 2009 targeted to providing infrastructural support to the industry in Cote d’Ivoire through the construction of BTS and managed services to support mobile operators in a market set to double subscribers in the next three years.

AS details of the meeting of the estranged members of Ogun State House of Assembly begin to emerge, the two sides in the House of Assembly have been giving different account of what transpired with each side claiming to have gotten the nod of the President.

For instance, before the Boko Haram insurgents carried out the magnitude of operation they did in Bauchi where they released over 700 of their members who were awaiting trial in the prison yard, those who head the security services in this country should have received intelligence report about it”

Recently, it was also reported that President Jonathan appointed Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, as the Director of his campaign organisation . Dr. Dalhatu Tafida is expected to coordinated the president’s campaign in the country’s six geo-political zones just as Dr Raymond Dopkesi will coordinate for the former military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida.

‘Jewel for Jim’ will present and document unscripted dramatic and sometimes humorous social experiences, situations and/or events, while featuring beautiful women of all races, cultures, ethnic groups, religions and sects, struggling to excel at specific tasks and contests with the ultimate goal of winning Jim’s heart and crowned “The Jewel”.

The project is currently in its first stage which will run till the end of this month. Nominations from Nigerians in diaspora are ongoing on www.naijahits50.com while residents are implored to nominate songs via text messages. Once nomination closes, the second phase consisting radio and TV live countdown will follow.