If the world is full of misery and heart-break, pain, sickness and oppression, it is because we caused it. — Socrates AT a time the National Youth Service Corps is finding relevance again, deaths of NYSC members in riots across the country have provided the latest reasons for calls to end the scheme. Emotions are […]

Nigeria’s Flying Eagles have been guaranteed an improved win_bonus should they beat Mali and qualify for the final of the 2011 African Youth Championship in South Africa.

Former Bolton Coach, Sam Allardyce has predicted a cracking encounter between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Albicelestes of Argentina on June 1 at the Abuja National Stadium.

Thirteen persons, including six women and a member of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, working with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, were Tuesday arrested by the police in Lagos State, during the Governorship and House of Assembly Elections in the State, for allegedly attempting to hijack ballot boxes, disrupt electoral processes and tomb-printing of ballots papers.

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, Brigadier-General Ismaila Tsiga, yesterday, berated governors in Northern states where corps members were killed in post-presidential election violence, penultimate weekend, and said he was ready to quit.

Nigeria are set to lose defender Gani Ogungbe for their important semi_final clash against Mali on Thursday at the African Youth Championship in Johannesburg.

Nigeria and other African representatives will know their fate today as the draws for the FIFA under-20 World Cup will take place in Cartegena, Colombia, today.

Immediate past Governor of Lagos State and National leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stressed the need for compensation to the families of all slain members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, who lost their lives in violence that erupted in some Northern states of the country while serving their fatherland.

NIGERIAN motorists daily face the dilemma of which instruction to abide by regarding the use of tinted motor glasses.

The global economic crisis brought to the fore the need to refocus regulation and supervision. It brought a lot of lessons such as ‘that lenders, borrowers and regulators erred; that better financial risk management is required; that no company is too big or too old to fail; that central banks, other regulators and governments cannot be bystanders; and that greater regulation and monitoring of exposure is required.’