While the IAAF world indoor championships was being concluded yesterday in Doha, Oatar, without Nigeria on the medal list, Blessing Okagbare was on the other side of the Atlantic making history.

Father of a set of triplets who were delivered prematurely at a Lagos hospital, Mr Kehinde Onilude, has made a passionate appeal to public spirited Nigerians to come to the aid of the family and save the children from being thrown out of the hospital due to their inability to meet the hospital bills of maintaining the triplets in the incubators.

Nigeria’s chances of qualifying for the second African Nations Championships suffered a major dent when the home-based Super Eagles were beaten 2-0 by Niger Republic on Saturday.

Sponsors of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) organised national women league Zenith Bank Plc has cut down the sponsorship funding of the league from N15 million from the last year edition to N10 million.

NFF Executive Committee member, Alhaji Alili Galadima, was buried in his home town of Gumel on Sunday night.
Holder of the respected chieftaincy title of Ajiyan Gumel, the 47-year-old, who was on his way to Niamey for Saturday’s African Nations Championship qualifier between Niger Republic and Nigeria before his Jeep somersaulted on Friday evening close to Niamey, was also the Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission, Jigawa State.

The rising incidence of frauds perpetrated through Automatic Teller Machines (ATM) will soon abate following the completion of the National Central Switch (NCS) for electronic payment in the country.

The Action Congress, AC, said the report that Maurice Iwu’s INEC will release a comprehensive time-table for the 2011 general elections this week has sent alarm bell ringing across Nigeria, warning that Iwu should not be involved in any way in the 2011 elections if they are to be credible.

When English Philosopher, John Locke, remarked in 1693 that, “a sound mind in a sound body is a short, but full description of a happy state in the world,” not many people understood the full import of his statement.

CHAIRMAN, Youth Wing of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, Reverend Abel Damina, has tasked the Federal Government to rehabilitate and compensate victims of recent Jos crises.

Diageo, owner of the Guinness brands, said that in the next three weeks, the entry for the annual Africa Business Reporting Awards (ABRA) will come to a close.