Former Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Rufai has said that administrative issues at the NFF and the FIFA ban caused Eagles defeat in Conakry against the Syli National.

About N2.8billion has been approved for the rehabilitation of three dams by the Ondo State government to improve water supply in the state.

Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) and 2007 Kwara State Governorship Candidate of the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP), Gbenga Olawepo, has rallied support for President Goodluck Jonathan following the mixed views trailing the Independence Day bomb blasts in Abuja.

Just when prominent Nigerians were calling on handlers of the national team to reconsider the country’s dependence on foreign-based footballers in the prosecution of its international duties, captain of the Eagles, Joseph Yobo has risen strongly in defence of his colleagues in foreign leagues, pointing out that home-based players were not yet ripe for the challenges in the team.

FORMER Militants, who just graduated from the Rivers State skills acquisition programme being handled by the Rivers State Social Rehabilitation Committee, SRC, have been told to be law abiding and make good use of the opportunities offered them by the state government through the rehabilitation programme.

Worried by the sliding fortunes of the nation currency, Governor Timipre Sylva of Bayelsa State has charged the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to take more steps to strengthen the value of the naira

Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, workers, have called for the liberalisation of the power sector in place of the privatisation being pushed by government

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Benin zone, has expressed disgust at what it described as the festering insensitive disposition of some state governments in the country towards the Federal Government / ASUU 2009 agreement.

Eagles’ interim Coach, Austin Eguavoen has said that he relied on information provided by Marseille’s Taye Taiwo to plan for last weekend’s African Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea in Conakry. Nigeria lost 1-0 and stay three points behind the Guineans, on the table.

Acting secretary general of the NFF, Musa Amadu, has told Nigerians itching to see a substantive coach named for the Super Eagles to wait for a while until the crisis in the football house was resolved.

The Police Tuesday, arrested Mr. Bodunde Adeyanju, Special Assistant to former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Domestic Affairs who has been at large despite several invitations by the federal government panel on the Halliburton scam to report to force headquarters.

The Coach, Akande Arisekola tutored ,Oyo state youth football team are champions of this year’s, Prince Dokun Abidoye, National U-16 Boys Football Championship after its 4-3 penalty shootout win over hard fighting, Kaduna state team.

Barring Fifa ban, the Nigeria Football Federation has secured an international friendly between the Eagles and Iran in Tehran .

Nigeria’s Damola Osayomi has been stripped of her gold medal by the Commonwealth Games Federation, after her B sample confirmed a positive test for banned stimulant.

Newly elected executive board of the Nigeria Olympic Committee took a break from the events of the New Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games yesterday to hold their first executive meeting.