Come February 6th 2010, Sapele Athletics Club Golf section in Delta State will be a beehive of activities as the best of lady golfers from the South South zone lay siege at the newly constructed golf facility as Lady Golfers Association of Nigeria (LGAN) Vice President South Liz Ogbetuo hosts her inaugural tournament.

Nigeria’s best female golfer Uloma Mbuko is set to turn pro this year. Mbuko who for years dominated the ladies scene, winning virtually every tournament in the country, finally decided to turn pro two years back but she could not secure a sponsor. Last year, Mbuko financed her trip Nelson Mandela’s country where she secured a trainer, who would help her fine tune her game as she prepares for the big journey ahead.

When one of Nigeria’s greatest footballers, Chief Olusegun Patrick Odegbami (MON) sauntered into the premises of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) about 12 years ago, he didn’t know that the project he was building with the company was going to grow into a world brand.

In the wake of last week’s failed bomb attack on a passenger jet, some countries have decided to move quickly to improve airport security in their various international airports. Nigeria, United States of America and Britain have announced new measures that would check the would-be terrorists and prevent future attacks against aircraft.

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has been advised to monitor the Super Eagles players on and off the pitch in order to know their needs and encourage them. Former chairman of the Nigeria Football Association now federation, retired Brigadier-General Dominic Oneya gave this advice in an interview with Saturday Vanguard sports in Lagos.

Dr. Chidi Chukwueke is the chairman of Deep Offshore Community Affairs Group (DOCAG), an umbrella body made up of eleven offshore oil companies in Nigeria. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard Business, Dr Chiweke explained why the group has decided to venture into free health scheme project beginning with three states Akwa Ibom, Ondo and Mbano, Imo states as part of their contribution to corporate social responsibility in Nigeria with promises to reach other communities in the future.

THE Catholic Pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI has said the basic problem which the international community has to address is that of energy resources and the development of joint and sustainable strategies to satisfy the energy needs of the present and future generations.

After the storm that trailed Nigeria’s aviation sector, with the fatal crashes that were recorded in 2005 and 2006, and which served as a wake up call for the nation’s aviation authorities, much efforts had gone into raising the level of infrastructure and navigational facilities at airports across the country. The argument was that some, if not all of the accidents and incidents, could have been averted, had there been no decayed infrastructure in the sector.

NIGERIA Labour Congress (NLC), has described as totally unacceptable the massive retrenchments going on in the nation’s banking sector and called on the banks that had sacked workers to reverse their action without any delay and those planning to do same to jettison the idea to avoid a harvest of industrial actions in the sector in 2010.

Procter and Gamble, the leading household products manufacturer has been honoured with the 2009 Tax Compliance Award in recognition of the company’s diligence in the remittance of tax as a corporate citizen in Lagos State.

Maintaining a healthy and youthful skin this year should be a top priority since physical appearance is important for each person. Every man and woman hopes to maintain their health and youthful appearance for as long as possible but without care this is not possible.

In what seems like reigns of baby boys, Baby Chibogwou has been announced the first baby of the year out of the total eight babies born in three public hospitals in Lagos State. Baby Chibogwu came at exactly mid night at Ayinke House, Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). All the babies delivered were all male and one baby girl.

Recently U.M.1 held a fashion exhibition at the Osborne Estate in Ikoyi, to showcase her collections here in Nigeria and to give people a feel of what the label U.M.1. is all about.

This week, I am really addressing the young women, especially the undergraduates. That you have chosen to get educated, you will soon find out, is one of the greatest and wisest decisions that you would ever make. Most of you feel you had no choice. It was just the way it was. You finished in secondary school, and your parents/guardian just ensured that you got into the university.

So many things did not work in Nigeria in 2009 but entertainment was not one of those things. One of the places where entertainment took centre stage last year was Benue state.