Following Tuesday’s draws for the 2011 Africa Youth Championship in Libya, which pitched Nigeria in Group B alongside Cameroon, Ghana and Gambia, Coach of The Gambia U_20, Lamin Sarr, has said that he is not scared that his team have been drawn in what is widely regarded as a ‘Group of Death’..

With $7.6bn, about N1.15tn spent on importing an estimated 8.1million metric tons (MT) of petroleum products from around the world in the last eleven months, including non-oil producing countries, even in Africa like the troubled Cóte D’Ivoire, and Togo, Nigeria remains very far from energy sufficiency.

KIDNAPPERS of the wife and children of a popular Nollywood actor, John Okafor, popularly known as Mr. Ibu from Enugu State, Thursday, reduced the ransom they are demanding for their release from the initial N50 million to N6 million.

Super Eagles coach Samson Siasia returns from his vacation to the United States of America on Sunday, in time for Monday’s opening of the national team camp for the Obama Cup International from February 12-20 at the Green Bowl stadium in USA.
He will also have the opportunity of meeting his two assistant coaches, Salisu Yusuf and Ike Shorunmu.

First Bank Plc has offered to provide agricultural loans to cooperatives societies in Osun State, and training kits for all volunteers who participate in the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (OYES).

Investors in Sterling Bank Plc had a rewarding 2010 as the bank’s shares led others in the banking sector to close the year as the highest price gainer.

Analysts on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has said that AMCOM contribution to the capital market and banks result which are to be released between now and march has made investors patronage on bank stocks high, noting that these factors are the main reason for the market drive.

In line with its customer excellence programme, management of Afribank Nigeria Plc has engaged its customers in interactive fora with a view to fostering better relationships in the New Year. At different fora last week the bank assured of “mutually beneficial relationship” with its customers.

Operatives of National Drug Law Enforce Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested a husband, aged 60 and wife, aged 57 (names withheld), printer and trader, respectively, with 2.280 kiligrammes of heroin at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos.

The the award-winning producer of stylish digital devices, has unveiled the new iriver Story HD eBook the world’s first 6” XGA eBook reader with 63.8% more pixels and faster page turns than the competition at the ongoing Consumer Electronics Show, CES 2011 which opened today on Las Vegas, the United States of Ameria.