Nigeria’s Falcons might have crashed out of the world cup when they should be playing in the final, but the famous remarks made by coach Eucheria Uche that lesbians were not welcomed in her team continue to make waves.

Former Super Eagles’ captain, Sunday Oliseh, has passed a damning verdict on Nigeria’s football describing it as nearing its death.
Speaking to Brila FM, the former Juventus and Borussia Dortmund midfielder picked holes in the structure of the development of the game in Nigeria.

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, has threatened to resume hostilities following its dissatisfaction with the alleged position of the Federal Government that over 100 Boko Haram members arrested for bombing the Police Headquarters, would not be prosecuted, while Henry Okah, his brother, Charles Okah and other persons arrested under the guise of being members of MEND were being prosecuted.

Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel has wished his injured teammate Michael Essien quick recovery from his knee injury, which has ruled him out for six months.

NOBEL laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka Thursday in Abeokuta , took a cursory look at his experience and asked Nigerian children and youth to drop the idea of attempting to emulate him in activism.

Four days, after the flood in Lagos with over 31 deaths recorded , three persons, including a 5-year-old boy, Thursday, were reportedly drowned at Aboru, Agbadi-Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, following another heavy downpour.

The Speaker of House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, Thursday, called for support of the German government in Nigeria’s quest for a permanent seat in the UN security council.

Team Hermes from Ireland wins top honors in the Software Design competition in the 2011 Imagine Cup World festival and awards ceremony held yesterday at the David H. Koch Theater Lincoln center in New York, the United States of America,

Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i has called on National Mathematical Centre, NMC, to take immediate steps to simplify the teaching of Mathematics in the country to engender the interest of students.

Prof. Rufa’i identified poor perception and teaching method as largely

The Director-General of National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, Brig-Gen Muharazu Ismaila Tsiga, yesterday, ordered the relocation of 1,753 Batch ‘B’ corps members from Borno to states other than their places of origin due to lack of security of lives and property in the state.

Lagos State Government, yesterday, called on authorities of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC; Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN and telecommunication operators in the state to embark on a round check exercise aimed at fixing all dilapidated and weakened pipelines, electric and telephone poles in the state. This is to avoid further loss of lives, following Sunday’s downpour in the state which led to the death of no fewer than 31 persons.

ACTIVITIES were yesterday grounded at government offices in Ondo State as workers in the public service began indefinite strike over the implementation of the N18, 000 minimum wage.

AS morning shows the day, it has virtually become the tradition of this column to review its injunctions to elected officials at the beginning of each new government.

As the family of Navy Captain Ugochukwu Chinwe Ezeorah (rtd.), from Aku, Igboetiti Local Government of Enugu who was killed in the bomb blast which occurred at the Police Force Headquarters, Abuja on June 16, 2011 has petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan over what they described as ‘’the apparent silence of the Police authorities in acknowledging the death of their son in the bomb blast.

The Bishop, Diocese of Kubwa, Anglican Communion, Rt. Revd. Duke Akamisoko, yesterday, called on state governors incapable of paying the N18, 000 minimum wage to vacate their offices and give room to masses-oriented government.