Top Nigerian sports officials are mustering support for suspended sprinter Damola Osayomi, with a view to preventing a ban and the loss of her gold medal at the Commonwealths Games.

Track judges were forced to postpone the women 200m final yesterday after a protest filed by Cyprus runner who was contesting the decision to disqualify her.

Twelve-year-old schoolgirl Khaaliqa Nimji, who beat her mother to qualify for the Kenyan squash team, can concentrate fully on her homework now that her Commonwealth Games adventure has ended.

Another Nigerian athlete tested positive to banned substances yesterday, just as Nigerian officials here are yet to come to terms with Damola Osayomi’s poor run of luck at the 2010 Commonwealths Games here in New Delhi, India.

The clarification was made by the Chairman of the Ibadan branch of the union, Ademola Aremu while speaking with newsmen yesterday on the three-day-warning strike directed by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the union.

FOLLOWING the routine check of adulterated oil products and illegal operation of depot facilities, the Department of Petroleum Resources DPR has sealed two depots including a filling station on the account of operating without an approved license issued by the Government.

AS a means of finding a lasting solution to the perennial power problem currently rocking the nation, Arthur Energy limited, a leading company in renewable energy and a key player in the power sector has said that it is high time government embarks on renewable energy system as alternative source to the conventional generation of power in the country as this has led to the relocation of so many factories and industries to neighbouring countries.

THE Federal Government and the National Assembly have waded into the industrial dispute between governments of the South East states and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over non-implementation of the Federal Government and ASUU 2009 agreement which led to the three months old strike embarked upon by lecturers and other non-academic staff of the state-owned universities in the zone.

Okonkwo, who was reacting to the recent Abuja High Court ruling by Justice Yusuf ordering the reinstatement of the Benji Udeozor-led Exco of the party, stated that while he did not begrudge the court for its pronouncement, the pyrrhic reprieve to the litigants was unhelpful “because you can not substitute comedy for strategy in party growth and governance.”

Former Anambra State governor, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has distanced himself from organizers of the South East Political Forum meeting, which was aborted in Owerri penultimate week.