THE managing director of Triumph newspaper, Alhaji Mahmud Adnan Audi and Zahradeen Saleh of Pyramid FM will square up in the opening match of this year’s Kano SWAN/ Sule Yau Sule Inter Media Table Tennis Championship today in Kano.

As 43-year-old Raphael Udeh, an indigene of Lokpanta, in Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, left Europe in 2001, after spending 12 years for Nigeria, with the intention of establishing a company and help in solving unemployment problem in the country, little did he know that he was doing that at his peril.

Brigadier-General Emmanuel Okaro (rtd) has advised newly appointed Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia not to be carried away in his new job as the head coach of the senior national team.

In the foaming maelstrom of unrelenting jostle for political advantage on every issue, by which Nigeria is consumed at the moment, no one may be adjudged to have got it right at any point in any endeavor. You are damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

Ex-junior international, Nduka Ugbade has showered encomium on newly appointed Super Eagles coach, Samson Yebowei Siasia.

I was invited to the Kuramo Conference but could not attend because of tight schedule. From newspaper reports the conference was a huge success. The speakers at the conference are leaders of great influence and competence in various fields. As I watched the report of the conference on television I was agitated at the meaning of it all.

The Mallam Adamu Ciroma-led 17 wise men saddled with the responsibility of picking a Northern consensus candidate for the PDP presidential primaries appear to have narrowed down its choice to former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

Finally the fairy tale romance between the man the music industry has come to know as the Koko master and telecoms giants, GLO is over.

A Lagos High Court, yesterday, adjourned till November 12, 2010 for the prosecution to conclude argument in its opposition to the no case submission of Major Hamzat Al_Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to late military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, and others, who were alleged to have attempted to murder publisher of The Guardian Newspapers, Mr. Alex Ibru.

Second Republic governor of Lagos State is still active in politics even at 81 years.Only this week, he presided over a meeting where some political parties came together and agreed on fielding common candidates in next year’s elections in the bid to wrestle power from the ruling PDP.

President Goodluck Jonathan, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and General Muhammadu Buhari have emerged as Nigerians’ favourites for the post of President in a snap poll conducted by NO1 Polls.

HEARTLAND Chief Coach, Samson Yebowei Siasia was yesterday announced as the Chief Coach of the Super Eagles ahead his erstwhile captain, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi after one member of the Technical Committee described their performance as “too close to call”.

Samson Siasia finally emerged as the new coach of Nigeria’s senior national team, the Super Eagles as the technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation okayed his application for the job after a celebrated interview.

Born August 14 1967 in Lagos, Siasia is one thorough bred Nigerian football personality, having gone through the mills to become a distinguished player and now coach.

After three postponements, the Nigerian Premier League is expected to finally commence today with Kaduna United and Kano Pillars drawing the first blood in Kaduna.