The President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee, Sani Ndanusa has described the ongoing late Maryam Babangida Memorial National Junior Tennis Championship holding in Minna as a welcome development.

IT was an experience in self-discovery driving through these rural villages in some of the most remote areas in the country. But for the well-tarred roads that lacked drainage, it would have been easy to say that these communities are disconnected from the flashes of civilizazation.

It was not surprising that the Benue State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal failed to resume its deliberations in the State yesterday. The panel which is considering petition sagainst the election of Governor Gabriel Suswam surprised no one given the unceremonious departure of the panel from Makurdi about two weeks ago. The panel departed, or rather, fled Makurdi the Benue State capital on July 25 on the basis of alleged insecurity arising from alleged threats made against the members.

The first thing that comes to the mind of anybody when Osun groove is mentioned is the annual Osun Osogbo festival. This festival, which has been on since 1370 AD when the people of Osogbo land began the celebration of the Osun goddess, tends to overshadow the beauty of the groove which is on the world heritage list.

Major Hamza al-Mustapha who is on trial for the alleged murder of Kudirat Abiola, held the court spell-bound yesterday with fresh revelations of how the intrigues that gripped the nation following the annulment of the June12, 1993 Presidential Election almost led to the execution of former Head of State, Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo.

Crest-fallen Croatia Coach, Ivan Grnja watched helplessly as Nigeria’s Flying Eagles walloped his team 5-2 in a second group D game at Armenia on Wednesday night, a result that has made his job of qualifying the European side a more arduous task.

COMPARISONS between Boko Haram and the militants in the Niger Delta, as the explanation for the proposed talks between government and the group in Maiduguri are inevitable, though many would refuse to see the connection.

Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Gideon Ekeuwe, yesterday, appeared before the state House of Assembly Committee on Public Accounts, and said that the office of Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, had so far received only N1.6 billion for projects spread across the state.

I was in Abuja on the last Saturday of June 2011 and found that I could not leave my home or attend to any business activities until after 10.00am. It was environmental sanitation day. I remembered with angst, the military brutality that attended the introduction of environmental sanitation in Nigeria.

For those who throng the Airforce Base in Ikeja recently for a friendly match between Lagos Sheraton hotel and the Four Points by Sheraton, Lekki they did not expect to see two ex Eagles players on parade.

He strikes as a subject of controversy to many including some who see him as over-zealous. But Rt. Hon. Innwa Garba who was the former Deputy Speaker and now Speaker of the fourth Gombe State House of Assembly radiates a passion to entrench a strong foundation for the Nigerian legislature. Calm and careful he is indeed a young man with lofty aspirations to leave his foot-prints on the sands of time. In this interview, the Speaker asserts his commitment to contribute his quota to lift Gombe from economic and political doldrum

In an apparent response to the suspension placed on trading of their shares on the floors of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, Omatek Ventures Plc and United Nigeria Textiles, UNTL, Plc have submitted their financial statements for the 2010 financial year.

CHIEF Peter Nwaoboshi is the Delta State chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview with Vanguard at his Asaba residence, he explains why he recently went on a trouble shooting mission to the former Federal Commissioner for Information, Chief Edwin Clark, at Abuja, a move that political analysts interpreted as a further sign of crack in the mainstream of the PDP family headed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan. “

Mr Musa Sada, the Minister of Mines and Steel Development has said that the Federal Government is determined to diversify the country’s revenue earning through the development of minerals and metals for export.

In the noble exercise of attempting to plan for the future greatness of Nigeria, perhaps it would be necessary to peep into the past and examine the present. Before the peculiar amalgamation of 1914, British military forces had already prepared ground for Lord Lugard who gave the country the name, Nigeria.