Nigeria’s Super Eagles will face their biggest rivals in African football, the Black Stars of Ghana today in an international friendly at the Vicarage Road Stadium in London after three previous losses in three consecutive games.

Tragedy struck weekend at Offa garage area of Ilorin as a Volvo truck with number plate XW 795 AGL carrying goods cut a man believed to be a technician in his early thirties.

A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Benin, Edo State, yesterday, said that the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice had no power to issue or give legal advice in a matter in which the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in any state of the federation had already given legal advice.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday, directed stockbroking firms and dealing members to withdraw their settlement accounts from the three nationalised banks, even as the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) said that the three banks are still open to interested buyers. Meanwhile, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) officials yesterday went round the nationalised banks to monitor their activities especially their response to customers and staff.

Organised labour in Edo State, yesterday, called off its four-day old strike action after an emergency meeting of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC.

Edo State Government has grown its internally generated revenue, IGR, by over 200 per cent in the last three years. In a bid to meet its commitment to the people through the delivery of dividends of democracy, the state is planning to further grow its IGR to finance ongoing projects.

TO alleviate sufferings occasioned by the scarcity of Kerosene in the state, the Ondo State Government yesterday dispensed 110,000 litres of the product to the people in Akure South council area of the state at N50 per litre.

Director- General of Prince Nicholas Ukachukwu campaign organisation for the April 2011 National Assembly election, Chief Ozoigbo Ukachukwu, yesterday, said contending issues surrounding the Anambra South senatorial election have not been resolved.

The Kitchen is usually described as the heart of a home. The reason for this description is obvious – it is where the food that sustains the family is prepared.

AS indications emerged that Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State will act on petitions alleging that some top civil servants in the state public service are working with forged certificates, his predecessor, Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has said it will be counter-productive.

The one area in which Nigeria’s social scientific understudy of the British colonial administration is most deficient is in the areas of strategic appreciation of military security and the engineering of stability of defense.

OYO State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has warned the Local Government Transition Committee chairmen sworn in yesterday that his administration will not tolerate any act of corruption.

ELECTRONICS giant, Samsung electronics West Africa Limited yesterday signed a three year sponsorship deal worth of $1.5 Million ( about N228 million) with the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) as the official electronics of the National teams.

I read with disgust the current motion for a single term of six years for both the President and the governors. Mr. President, there are more immediate issues than tenure elongation. The country is groaning under severe maladministration for which we voted you in to effect correction.

OGUN State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dayo Soremi, narrowly escaped death Sunday evening when armed bandits attacked him and killed his driver.