Former Green Eagles player and a member of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), Chief Segun Odegbami (MON) has said that sports in Nigeria can be better again like it is in other countries if there is a change in the current system.

Former President of the Cycling Federation of Nigeria, Rev. Moses Iloh, has called on government, both at the federal and state levels, to see the need of investing more in cycling and giving it the mileage it deserves.

The Lagos State government will Monday begin the 7th round of the free State-wide Screening for Diabetes and Hypertension in all the 20 Local Government Areas of the State and 37 Local Community Development Areas respectively.

FOR contravening the tenets of safety and hygiene compliant with Good Hygienic Practices (GHP), the fast food outlet of Tetrazzini Foods Ltd located at National Arts Theatre Iganmu Lagos has been shut.

ANAMBRA State elders and clergy have cautioned against turning the happiness of Anambra people to sorrow by some politicians who participated in the February 6 governorship election in the state, warning that the state would not tolerate any instability caused by such politicians and their agents.

The Alaafin of Oyo Kingdom and Permanent Chairman of Oyo State State Council of Obas and Chiefs, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, has kicked against the formation of National Council of Traditional Rulers of Nigeria, saying it is unconstitutional.

The Constitution provided that if the President is indisposed, the Vice President has to take over as Acting President. That ought to have been done much earlier and there was actually no basis for all the controversy. It was just that human beings were trying to circumvent the spirit of the Constitution. What has happened is not unusual. It happens in every democracy in the world.

ACTING President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday has said the Federal Government was determined to make electricity available for all Nigerians.

COUNSEL to the 28 convicted soldiers, Mr. Peters Adonu has said that the resolution of the National Assembly which empowered Goodluck Jonathan as acting President should not be taken as a subversion of the constitution.

The trial judge, Justice Mwada Balami who issued bench warrant against them had on December 11, last year declared all the four accused persons in the case wanted but later vacated the bench warrant on the 13th January, 2010 upon the application brought by the accused persons wherein counsel to the accused persons undertook to produce the accused persons in court on the next adjourned date being 22nd January, 2010.