When Nigeria play against Argentina in a FIFA-accredited friendly match on June 1 at the Abuja National Stadium, one person who would be willing to continue the winning tradition of the south American giants over the Super Eagles is Coach Sergio Batista.

Former international athlete Gabriel Okon has rapped Cross River State athletics grassroots development consultant, Bruce Ijiriho over his comments last week lambasting the mismanagement of the junior athletics champions.

Competition starved junior athletes had their fill as the Pastor D.K Olukoya junior athletics championships rounded off on Thursday at the Yaba College of Technology sports ground in Lagos.

Professor Martin Anthony Chike Aghaji is a specialist in Adult and Paediatric Heart Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Liver Surgery, Kidney Transplantation and Nuclear Medicine.

Necessity, says an adage, is the mother of invention. And in Nigeria, the reluctance of relatives of kidney disease patients to donate kidneys to their diseased ones has opened a new business for voluntary donors who make millions by donating one of their kidneys to patients.

Nigerian born Hollywood actor, Hakeem Kae-Kazim who played the lead character in the controversial film, “Black Gold: Struggle For The Niger Delta” produced by Jeta Amata and also “Inale”, a debut production of the music maestro Bongos Ikwue is not pleased with the way and manner some aggrieved groups in the Niger Delta are going about the production of the movie.

SPURRED by the desire to plough back to the Nigerian society the numerous scholastic accomplishments within and outside the country, most of which was sponsored, and the need to create a better future for Nigerian youths and upcoming entrepreneurs, the founder of Hayford Alile Foundation (THAF) on Thursday said that it would assist indigent entrepreneurs and needy students to achieve their boundless dreams.

The audience were electrified after Timi Dakolo performed Heaven Please, a track off his soon-to-be-released debut album titled Beautiful Noise – his much anticipated debut.

Edo State branch of the National Conscience Party (NCP) has denounced what it called partisanship of the Army deployed to Otuo in Owan East Local Government Area of the state, saying that it poses grave danger to Nigeria’s cohesion.

“People turned out en masse. In my unit, about 800 voters had been accredited and ready to vote before the announcement. Apart from late arrival of personnel and material to various polling units, it was peaceful. We still have to mobilise our people to come out to vote and I sure they will still turn out. Nigerians are very patient people.

National legislative elections originally scheduled for last Saturday are taking place today in all but 15 of the 109 Senatorial Districts.

The Nigerian Hiphop/RnB icon was presented the This Day Award for Excellence on Friday March 16th, 2011.

Gboyega Ogunosun makes a good definition of a philanthropist, even without being a money bag yet. The 50th-year old communication consultant, seeing the suffering of his community built a borehole to provide portable water for the residents. While his own house had neither curtains, nor chairs.

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Thursday announced that it had withheld the results of 51,876 candidates for the November/December 2010 WASSCE in Nigeria for examination malpractices

Access Bank Plc has asked a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to commit the Chief of Naval Staff, Rear Admiral Sa’ad Ola Ibrahim, to prison for allegedly disobeying an order of the court by forcefully taking possession of a property in Ikoyi, Lagos.