Gwgawalada (FCT) – Some residents of Gwagwalada in the FCT on Saturday expressed mixed feelings over the territory’s first rain recorded on Friday night.

Ex-International Okey Isima has showered encomium on two times CAF champions Enyimba FC of Aba and Kano Pillars for their performance in the 2011 CAF Champions League last weekend.

With the February 9 friendly match against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone secured, ex-international, Alhassan Mohammed has said that the West African side are no push over.

CALL him a veteran presidential candidate and you may not be wrong. Since 2003, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has been trying to return to power as a civilian head of state, a position he once held as a military ruler and was kicked out from on August 25, 1985.

Throws coach, Gabriel Opuana has urged National Sports Commission officials to skip rhetorical statements and start preparing the country’s athletes for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Banks in the country last week witnessed unusual turnout of customers who stormed nearest bank branches to beat the deadline for updating their accounts in compliance with the Central Bank of Nigeria’s directive. The CBN had last year given bank customers up to December 31, 2010 update their accounts, but owing to low compliance, the date was shifted to January 31, 2011.

Embattled Hosni Mubarak belongs to the class of leaders who believes that they “can fool all the people, all of the time.” So, having fooled some of his country men and women, for 31 years, the last Pharaoh, last week, tried to “fool all of the people of Egypt all of the time,” which is exactly what he did successfully for three decades.

Chief Gabriel Yakubu Aduku is a former Minister of State for Health in the administration of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua. His tenure as a minister was abruptly brought to an end by allegations of corruption.

Respected media practitioners including journalists, academics, administrators and media-rights civil society organisations recently converged in Abuja to give a prognosis on the health of the media and the survival of Nigeria’s democracy.

This is the story of how a policeman senselessly killed a woman with an seven-month pregnancy in broad day light, leading to the burning of a bank and cars.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), has called for a major technological revamp of the nation’s oil and gas industry in order to improve transparency in extraction of crude as well as in the receipts and payments among operators in the industry.

Culture, Tourism and National Orientation Minister, Alhaji Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed, was born in 1961. Before his appointment as minister, he was the Chief of Staff of the Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Alhaji Bayero Nafada. Before then, he was a teacher at the Federal University of Technology, Yola. He was appointed minister in April 2010.

A Nigerian company, Quintas Renewable Energy Solution, has been named by the Climatology Division of the World Bank as one of the ten inventors selected across the world for contributing towards reduction in carbon emission through their products in 2010.

The Obama administration on Saturday formally threw its weight behind a gradual transition in Egypt, backing attempts by the country’s vice president, Gen. Omar Suleiman, to broker a compromise with opposition groups and prepare for new elections in September.

LATELY, there has been nothing as controversial in Delta State, comprising chiefly the Anioma (Ndokwa inclusive), Urhobo, Isoko and Ijaw–speaking people, particularly before and after the January 6 gubernatorial re-run, as the creation of the state itself in 1991 by former military President, General Ibrahim Babaginda.