Organisers of the Central Bank Junior Tennis Championship have said that the best performers in the 16 and 18 categories, which serves off on Monday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan, are to feature in the main draw of the senior competition, holding later in the year.

Tuesday, last week, will indeed remain an indelible date in Nigeria’s history, following the historic resolution by both chambers of the National Assembly, declaring the phenomenon Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan as the first Nigerian Acting President in a manner reminiscent of the election of a President.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) say they will play Paraguay in a friendly in London — but Paraguay say they are playing Athletic Bilbao instead.

When pro-democracy groups forced the military junta to retreat into the barracks in 1999, the obvious assumption was that a worst civilian government was better than the most benevolent military dictatorship. This was the maxim that is beginning to cut a big gash at the heart of true democrats who risked their lives to ensure that Nigeria returned to the civilized ways of governance.

The events of the past couple of weeks, arising from the absence of the President (who is also the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces) on grounds of ill-health, has provoked a flurry of activities, and in its wake has generated multiple reverberations, which have threatened to impose a crack on our ill-managed and papered attempt at constitutionalism.