WHAT would have been a tragic air disaster was averted, Monday, when an Arik aircraft scheduled to fly Enugu to Abuja by 8.50am almost crashed four minutes after take-off from Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu.

Veteran goalkeeper Precious Dede has warned that African champions Nigeria are determined to soar to new heights at the Women’s World Cup in Germany starting next Saturday. Nigeria have featured at all the World Cups since the inaugural tournament in China in 1991, but the best the Super Falcons achieved was the quarter-finals in 1999.

Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has resigned, world football’s governing body has confirmed.

“As a consequence of Mr Warner’s resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained,” said a Fifa statement.

MANY sympathizers, Wednesday, rushed to the scene of a fatal auto crash in Ibadan where 18 people were said to have died after a commercial bus fell off a bridge at Soka Bus Stop, Oluyole Local Government area of the city.

I HAVE watched and read with keen interest some fairy tale lies written and published in a national daily owned by the demystified and estranged godfather of Abia politics since the conclusion of the last general elections in the State.