The face off between Governor Sullivan Chime and the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo has gradually degenerated into a major political crisis in Enugu State. The dispute which began as a minor intra-party squabble has polarised the ruling PDP into three major camps with Governor Chime leading one group and Dr. Nwodo leading the second.

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Chief Coach of high-flying Super Falcons, Eucharia Uche, yesterday vowed that today’s African Women’s Championship final match against their Equatorial-Guinean counterparts will not be taken for granted.

Ethiopian long distance legend, Haile Haile Gebrselassie can smile even in times of difficult situations. But there was no smile on his face last Sunday, when a swollen knee force him to pull out of the New York Marathon, he announced his retirement shortly afterwards.

FIFA recently has been in the news concerning the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids and hosting hustlers. Ordinarily, football is a crowd-puller, the world over.

The myriad of football talent hunt programmes in the country is already getting the would-be stars dizzy but that has not stopped more ex-internationals from toeing that path.

Nigeria last week in Abuja failed again to realise her dream of lifting the All Africa Challenge Trophy (AACT), event for the first time. Rather it was South Africa, which has won the event since inception nine editions all together, that strolled to the podium to once again lift the trophy high.

Just last week, the NFF hired a new coach for the senior national football team. It is the first achievement of the organisation as it regains its legitimacy via FIFA’s intervention. Let me congratulate NFF on coming alive.

Nigeria’s pre-mier youth sports organisation, the Youth Sports Federation of Nigeria (YSFON), has urged the Super Falcons to up their game as they battle Equatorial Guinea in today’s final of the 7th African Women’s Championship in South Africa.

Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a member of the Standard Bank Group’s continued support of polo is indicative of its commitment to the development of sports in Nigeria.

Super Falcons’ top striker, Perpetua Nkwocha, who hit another hat-trick at the 7th African Women’s Championship (AWC) in South Africa, in the team’s 5-1 spanking of Cameroun in the competition’s first semi- final Thursday is set to increase her haul as they battle 2008 foes, Equatorial Guinea in today’s epic final.

What is happening now is a reaction by PDP members who are in majority in the House to the treatment they have been receiving from their party; unlike ACN which recognises and gives respect to all elected members

The protracted face-off between the National Universities Commission, NUC, and the management of Ondo State University of Science and Technology, OSUTECH, Okitipupa in Ondo state over non-compliance with laid down guidelines has been resolved as the institution has met the requirements set by the university regulatory body, NUC.

Nkechi Nwosu, 24, and a student is battling for her life after she was diagnosed as having kidney failure.. She now requires N6 million for a replant to save her life.

IMMEDIATE past governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan said yesterday that his achievements in office before the annulment of his election by the Court of Appeal would ensure his victory at the re_run governorship election.