Super Eagles players shortly before their departure Wednesday to Durban, South Africa, on training tour ahead the African Nations Cup in Angola bared their minds on what to expect.

To get things done, you need “doers”, and Anthony Baffoe definitely belongs in that category. The 44-year-old can look back on a storied career, and his experience combined with his engaging personality, way with words and skills in sports management make him the ideal ambassador for African football.

Former Flying coach Tunde Disu has called on the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) not to change the team that qualified the country for the first World Cup to be staged in Africa in June.

Oil finished the year above $79 a barrel on Thursday, climbing a whopping 78 percent in 2009 and notching the biggest annual gain in a decade. The market roared back from depressed levels seen at the end of 2008 that came as the global economic crisis sapped demand.

THE Court of Appeal has ruled that Dr. Clement Uwemedimo of Commandclem Nigeria Limited is the statutory inventor of the Anti-Corrosive Special Paint for QIT (Transteel Blue, White Enamel) used in the production of crude oil, condensate, liquefied natural gas and other products.

CONGRATULATIONS for making it into this wonderful new year of our Lord, 2010. Despite the gloom of last year, I’m so very excited at the many opportunities that are available to us to impact our country for good.

A popular Hausa film star Hauwa Ali Dodo, was among those who died in a motor accident on Friday along Saminaka between Plateau and Kaduna States.

AS the absence of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia on health grounds continues to generate debate, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has called for intensive prayers by Nigerians to forestall a possible suspension of the nation’s constitution by politicians.

SOLDIERS from Port Harcourt Army barracks have arrested an alleged fake soldier who gave his name as Mr. Idi Shagari.

Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has promised to sustain the pace of road construction work going on in the state.

Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) yesterday asked the ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to tell Nigerians who is in charge of the country since President Umoru Yar’Adua went for a medical without handing over to his vice, Goodluck Jonathan.

Lagos State Government has inaugurated governing boards of some public hospitals in the state in an effort to improve the quality of services to the people.

Mrs Maryam Babangida was a trailblazer and a mobilser per excellence. She remains unforgettable . As a journalist, I worked with her for four years. She was the first lady and I worked with her. There was a particular incident. I attended a function with her.

When the Federal Executive Council passed a resolution some two weeks ago confirming that the president is in good health, and therefore can govern, the whole country had thought that it would be a matter of days before Mr. President would resume at his duty post in Aso Rock. But the man is still absent!! What’s really going on? Why is anybody or group of people afraid to let a constitutionally identified individual act on behalf of this president, temporarily, until he is well enough to be at his duty post? Why is the FEC so timid over doing what’s right in the present circumstances?

THE Catholic Archbishop of Lagos Metropolitan See, Anthony Cardinal Okogie tasked Nigerians on state of the nation.
Okogie who made the remark yesterday in Lagos when he celebrated Mass to mark the church’s World Day of Peace, said, “Look at the political parties that we have, which one of them is really serious about carrying out its manifestos?