Sunshine Stars triumphed and Kaduna United drew as the Nigerian clubs made CAF Confederation Cup group-phase debuts this weekend. Dayo Ojo put Stars ahead against vastly experienced Daring Club Motema Pembe of Congo DR midway through the second half in south-west town of Ijebu Ode, before Ajani Ibrahim added a late goal for a 2-0 win.

Despite last Saturday’s acceptance by Governors of the 36 states that they will pay the new minimum wage, labour insisted yesterday that it is proceeding with the three-day warning strike scheduled to begin on Wednesday as it gives further conditions to call off the strike.

Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State has warned his predecessor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, to refrain from actions that will set him on collision course with the new administration in the state.

As you are reading this, I am transiting in Cairo.
I left Algiers yesterday, after Coordinating the CAF Champions League match between Mouloudia d’Alger and Esperance of Tunisia.

INDICATIONS emerged yesterday that public servants in Ondo State could call off their ongoing strike over implemention of the N18.000 following intervention of stakeholders who met with their leaders for over five hours.

One of the greatest puzzles for banking historians of the future to unravel will be answering the question: How did Sanusi Lamido rise to become the Managing Director of the First Bank and from there got catapulted to the position of the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN? The reasons for the mystery are not difficult to discover.

THE Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said the introduction of Islamic banking into our financial system was “necessitated by the effect of global meltdown that castrated the Nigerian financial system and slowed down the growth of the economy.”

The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has asked states and people of the South-South geo-political zone of the country to take precautionary measures to safeguard themselves from climate-related disasters.

Mr. Daniel Reyenieju, representing Warri Federal Constituency, Delta State, yesterday, said the Itsekiri nation was the most marginalised in Nigeria as it has only five officers in the Nigeria Police Force.

Rivers State Government has evacuated 150 Rivers students from the University of Maiduguri. This came just as three Islamic scholars have urged the Federal Government not to dialogue with Boko Haram because the sect was a deviant group whose activities do not represent the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.