The planned nation-wide warning strike by labour has started taking its toll on the Nigerian sport scene even before the first day of the unrest as the Nigeria Olympic Committee yesterday announced that the 2011 Olympic Day Run originally planned for this weekend will now hold on August 6.

FORMER Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, yesterday, adduced reasons why trial Justice Suleiman Belgore of an Abuja High Court sitting at Apo, should not allow counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Festus Keyamo, to go ahead and prosecute either himself or his former deputy, Usman Nafada Bayero, over the alleged uncanny roles they played in a N40 billion loan scam.

WE can count. One of the things we number well is promises. This may have something to do with the expectations politicians who made them would soon forget. President Goodluck Jonathan may have a different intention in saying he did not have a number of items in the agenda of his administration.

British Prime Minister, David Cameron, said yesterday that Britain would support Nigeria in its anti-terrorism security after a string of deadly bombings across the country.

The Managing Director of Urban Development Bank of Nigeria PLC, UDBN, Mr. Adekunle Oyinloye, yesterday said that Nigeria’s infrastructural deficit is estimated to be in excess of $200 billion (more than N30 trillion).