The National Assembly is seething with anger at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s governor. Ordinarily, it would have been a matter of a storm in a tea cup. But it has gone beyond a small tiff.

FORMER governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the state commissioner for orientation and communication, Chief Paulinus Akpeki , have faulted a suspected plan of the Democratic People’s Party, DPP, gubernatorial candidate in the state, Chief Great Ogboru, to scrap the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, if elected.

The Youth Sport Federation of Nigeria (YSFON) has a new date for the postponed President Unity Cup Under-17 boys soccer competition which was earlier fixed for November 24th-27th, 2010 in Yenagoa, capital of Bayelsa State.

The bribery allegation levelled against the president of the Confederation of Africa Football, CAF, Alhaji Issa Hayatou by the BBC programme Panorama has been described as a big embarrassment to the continent.

An International Canoe and Kayak competition named after the governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has been approved with Calabar as host by the governor for later this month.

Mr. Adebayo Adegun, is the Head of Enforcement department, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), he speaks in this interview with Sunday Business on how the agency achieved 90 per cent success in curtailing influx of fake and sub-standard products into the country.

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC), Captain Adamu Biu, has declared that wrong policies and inconsistency are crippling shipping business in Nigeria despite the huge potentials abound in the maritime industry.

“0703-775-3332Dele, the greatest threat to the collapse of this Fourth Republic is this gang of legislators. These are a bunch of rapacious, greedy, shameless and unrepentant enemies of democracy.

Time is a forward moving application of the universe; it’s the life blood of events and primary determinant of our chronicles. Every year, I ponder the nature of time, especially as the years seem to run by faster and faster.

How the times have changed! Not so long ago, it was only the layabout and the ne’er- do- well who expected their women to keep them.

It was another moment of truth in Asaba, Delta State, when the World Bank managing director and former minister of finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, rolled out statistics to back up her claims that except the country sits up, it is very far behind the comity of G20 nations.

Opportunity is taking advantage of situations by the gifts of God in your life.
You look at a situation at hand, and by the abilities loaded inside you, you are able to determine where a particular good would sell and you go a step further by taking it there.

As reaction on the CAF award continues to pour in, former Golden Eaglets Coach Henry Nwosu says players should work hard if they want to be nominated in next CAF award.

The Nigeria Golf Federation has announced the postponement of 2010 President Cup Golf Championship earlier scheduled to tee-off on December 13th at the IBB International Golf and Country Club in Abuja due to logistics reason.

Nigerians and the Church have been enjoined to positively, gainfully and constructively invest in Sports and Education, for the country to re-possess her lost glory, especially in global sporting excellence.