Noting that England’s preference to play a defensive formation caused problems for the Flying Eagles, Coach Obuh promised to ring in the changes ahead of the potentially cracking quarterfinal match against France in the Colombian city of Cali.

The Lagos State Government, yesterday, reopened the five oil tank farms shut in the Kirikiri area of the state last Friday, by officials of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, for violating environmental laws.

FORMER Minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, yesterday told the Senate Adhoc Committee investigating activities of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, BPE, that the overbearing interference of former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Vice then, Atiku Abubakar, crippled the privatization programme.

In a dramatic turn of events yesterday at a Lagos High Court, Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to late General Sani Abacha was confronted with his October 13 1999 statement he made to the Special Investigation Panel (SIP) where he admitted supplying the guns that killed Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s wife, Kudirat.

MEN of the Delta State Police Command have arrested four suspected members of a gang that killed a former Divisional Police Officer, DPO, at Obiaruku in Ukwuani Local Government Area of the state, Mr. William Agbogoroma, in January this year.

No fewer than 10 persons were feared dead in a fatal accident involving a petrol tanker and an 18-seater bus, yesterday, at Ehiom in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State.

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has succumbed to pressure that greeted his list of commissioner-nominees submitted to the State House of Assembly as some of the nominees have been replaced with new names.

The late great Justice Anthony Nnaemezie Christopher Aniagolu, OFR, crammed so many impressive achievements into his curriculum vitae that one wonders how he was also able to do normal things like sleep, eat and enjoy family life.

Having become the president of Nigeria he must be seen as having outgrown the period of political apprenticeship. There is nothing wrong if a person is found to be good and those employing him or her want the person”as long as she is good in all political respects.

The long wait is finally over as the much awaited kickoff of the 2010-2011 English Premier League season, parading the best of Nigerian and African exports, starts in a stylish way tomorrow with seven matches holding in seven centres while a further two with Eagles players likely to feature, hold on Sunday.

Akwa Ibom State indigenes in the Diaspora and other investors have been called upon to take advantage of the state government industrialization polices to invest in the state.

NIGERIA is participating in the All Africa Games in Maputo, Mozambique, next month. If you have not been hearing much about the Games, it might have something to do with the fact that Nigeria is out of the football events of the Games. This is one example of the dangers that football pose to our sports.

Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State and Vice-Chairman of Omoilu Foundation, Alhaji Muniru Idris, has faulted media reports of last Tuesday’s court proceedings in the trial of the State PDP Chairman, Chief Dayo Soremi and four others.

A Chinese, Mr. Ding Shaw, and a Nigerian, Mr. Ifeanyi Dike, have been arrested by Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone ‘A’ of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, for allegedly attempting to export a container load of metal scraps through the Apapa port, in Lagos.

ANY one who has seen the high walls of the Port Harcourt prisons would certainly doubt if it is possible to scale over it. But it happened last Sunday.