The National Sports Commission (NSC) have described the loss of the FIFA executive committee seat by Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima as a big blow.

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, apprehended two suspected drug traffickers over unlawful exportation of 3.250 kilogrammes of cocaine to Europe at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.

THE consumer is king. Bankers are seeing the other side of kingly consumers. Some bank debtors are refusing to meet their obligations. They are not even willing to enter the normal banker-client negotiations on terms of redeeming the situation.

-The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, and the Imo Rescue Group, IRG,have urged students from Imo State and the entire country to vote for only deserving Nigerians during the April 2011 general elections

The Federal Government has drawn up a code of conduct for former militants sent overseas for training, threatening stiffer penalties for violators.

MY favourite playwright and poet is Bertolt Brecht, the controversial theorist of the stage called the “Epic Theatre”. His famous plays include The Threepenny Opera, Baal, Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle, and The Good Woman Of Setzuan. When this German cultural giant passed away in 1956, he was sixty eight.

Nigerian football will be put through another test today, when the NFF Appeals Committee, headed by Barrister Ola Mafo, meets to decide whether or not to uphold the appeals filed by Aisha Falode against the election of Dilichukwu Onyedinma as Women Football Chairperson and another appeal filed against Chief Emeka Inyama, by the North East candidates as the National League boss.

SHAREHOLDERS of Fidson Healthcare Plc have unanimously commended the performance of the company for the financial year ended June 30 2010, even as they asked for representation on the Board of Directors

THIS piece is going to press 72 hours before the elections in Khartoum, in which Nigeria’s Ibrahim Galadima is a candidate. The concern here is not whether he wins or not. I am more bothered about the way we are, the way we elect to be and the consequences for Nigeria.

A former drug convict, Chukwunyere Enoch Duru (39), stunned operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos recently, when he confessed that he swallowed a combination of 65 wraps of cocaine and

The newly inaugurated Nigerian chapter of the Institute of Hospitality (IoH) of the United Kingdom has promised to impact positively on the hospitality industry in the countr

For the second year in a row Qatar Airways has been selected by readers of the US edition of Business Traveller magazine as the Best Airline in the World for International Travel

The cacophony of noise by drummers and their accompanying dancers reverberated in every part of the Oworonsoki Youth centre in Lagos weekend. The air was festive and the feeling lively with a popular Yoruba musician, Saheed Osupa playing

South African Tourism minister, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, has revealed that over 7.3 million tourists visited the country between January and November last year, just as he said they are set to open a tourism office in Nigeria

A former drug convict, Chukwunyere Enoch Duru (39), stunned operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International