An Owrerri Chief Magistrate Court, presided over by Mrs. Victoria Isiguzo, has granted bail to 261 loyalists of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB.

Argentina coach, Sergio Batista who led his country to their first defeat to Nigeria at the senior level was full of praise for the Super Eagles, describing the Samson Siasia tutored side as “a very good team.”

The Nigeria Football Federation has dedicated the memorable 4-1 win of the Super Eagles against Argentina in an international friendly match in Abuja on Wednesday to His Excellency, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR.

Eagles’ coach Samson Siasia said that his team is aiming to beat Ethiopia at home in their Nations Cup qualifiers on Sunday. The coach revealed that their famous win against Argentina Wednesday night in Abuja has heightened the team’s confidence.

Ethiopia are planning a shock upset against the Super Eagles of Nigeria, when both teams clash in this weekend’s 2011 African Cup of Nations qualifying fixture in Addis Ababa.

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has ordered immediate payment of arrears of salaries currently owed civil servants in the state.

THIS column frequently criticises Nigerians who pollute our society, do their jobs lousily and are nasty pieces of work. Today, I am in a cheerful mood (for a change!) and am going to concentrate on Nigerians who are getting it right professionally or politically or within the contexts of their personal lives.

THE 2011 budget has just been passed by the National Assembly nearly half way into the year. The delay in consideration and passage of the budget has been a source of worry across the country these past months because President Goodluck Jonathan had presented the 2011 Appropriation Bill of N4.2tn to a joint session of the National Assembly as far back as December 14, 2010.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, stressed the need for the decentralization of Nigeria Police with a appeal to members of the seventh National Assembly to make laws that would keep the peace in the country.

She came into limelight in 2008, when she became the first runner-up at the Most Beautiful Girl In Nigeria Beauty Pageant(MBGN), a victory that gave her the ticket to represent Nigeria at the Miss Universe Beauty Pageants.