THE Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) came out with its position on the nation’s ailing refineries as it calls for its privatisation if the country is to move forward in the area of crude refining for local consumption.

Dangote has taken delivery of his new Bombadier Global Express XRS. The Aircraft would be the third in his fleet. We gathered the aircraft landed the Nigerian airspace from Canada last week just as he marked his 53rd birthday in Lagos.

Stand-in chief coach of the home-based Eagles, Daniel Amokachi, is one who does not toy with words. He often times sounds evasive. But after his team defeated a very technically disciplined Senegalese team in the final of the first WAFU Nations Cup in Abeokuta, Sunday, the former Ranchers Bees forward was expansive in his mood and generous in his comments.

Two months to the 2010 World Cup, former Nigeria international and Atlanta ‘96 gold medalist, Garba Lawal, has questioned the degree of patriotism and sense of commitment in the present crop of players in the national team and prayed that the new coach could reinvent that spirit in Eagles’ camp.

Not many know that the juju king, King Sunny Ade, recently jetted out of the country to South Africa. But what for? He had gone to participate in the recording of the Theme Song for 2010 World Cup in that country. Sunny Ade had the privilege to be selected as the only African for the recording.