Investments in the ports have gulped $822 million (or N123.3 billion) since 2006 when private terminal operators, otherwise known as concessionaires, began developing their various terminals for operations.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation, Alhaji Aminu Maigari on Friday commended the gesture of Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas company, Mr. Patrick Ifeanyi Ubah for rewarding players and officials of the U-20 National Team, Flying Eagles. Ubah had on Thursday hosted the Flying Eagles,

Nigerian born winner of Big Brother Amplified Karen Igho, who happens to be the first woman and third Nigerian to win the prize for three consecutive times confessed that she was shocked that she won.

A friend of mine who’s very pro-Nigeria has been recommended a bed-rest of one week by a health specialist, after a four-day visit to Benin City last week.

She’s from Edo State, but lives and works in Europe. She was in the country on a three-week vacation , and after a few days in Lagos, she badly wanted to visit her home state capital.

The Imo State Government has suspended officials of the Imo State FA and Imo United following the ban placed upon them by the Nigerian Football Federation on the grounds of corruption in match fixing and financial impropriety. In a release made available to Sunday Vanguard Sports, the State Government has set up a five man committee to investigate the issue and advise it on the best actio

The bishop, awarded one of the 50 outstanding wom-en in the country during Ni-geria’s 50th independence anniversary, also called on the Federal Government to tread softly on the contro-versial Islamic Banking, arguing that constitution-ally, Nigeria is a secular state and should not be seen to be promoting a sectional or religious endeavours to the detriment of other sect-ions or religions.

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, has been in the news lately and for the wrong reason. There were allegations of misappropriation of funds in the organization. But, in this interview, its Director-General, John Idoko, a professor of medicine specializing in infectious disease and the immunology of infection, with over years experience on the battle against HIV/AIDS, explains that no money is missing in NACA.
According to him, NACA passes donor funds to sub-recipients who actually implement programmes. Idoko adds that the agency has introduced system re-engineering to make the process more transparent and accountable.

Nigerian foreign policy over the years has remained largely lacklustre, particularly in the years post dating its intervention to restore peace and stability in Liberia and Sierra Leone, a move which was almost eclipsed by internal strife.

Magnus Kpakol, as Chief Economic Adviser to President Obasanjo, once explained ‘economic growth’ in the sense I discerned to mean a most ludicrous paradox. Like: ‘progressing on the path of retrogression’, or maybe ‘gaining in the direction of losses’; or yet ‘improving on the path of depletion’; or better still ‘growing from the rump of decay’.

When the present cabinet was being put together by President Goodluck Jonathan, many of us looked forward to stars who would gain public acceptance at the mere mention of their names.