Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella said ahead of today’s International friendly with Nigeria that his team bears no grudge against the Eagles for the 4-1 humbling last June in Abuja.

Central Bank of Nigeria , CBN, Governor, Malam Lamido Sanusi, said, yesterday, that the bank will allow investments to be held in Chinese yuan, broadening the available currencies in the country beyond dollars, euros and sterling.

The group stage of the Orange CAF Champions League and Confederation Cup enters the decisive fifth day this weekend as Nigerian referees enter the fray with a Champions League match in Tunisia involving Esperance and Mouloudia D’alger of Algeria.

Like the biblical injunction which states that ‘the wages of sin is death’, in Malaysia, the punishment for trafficking in hard drugs is outright death by hanging; no appeal! Curiously, four Nigerians, Messrs Ugochukwu Emmanuel Innocent, Udeh Innocent Chukwuemeka, Olisa Kelvin Chukwuka and Mgbeajuo Alex Chigozie, perhaps, out of sheer greed or ignorance, would have increased the number of persons executed by hanging in the Asian country for allegedly trafficking in hard drugs.

A property belonging to the former Chief Whip of the Senate and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Rowland Owie, was yesterday, demolished by the Edo State Government.

UGHELLI— NIGERIAN youths have been urged to come up with ideas that would further promote peace and development in the country.

Biafra ended in January 1970. That is 41 years ago. But the temptation to draw public attention to a striking similarity it shares with today’s Nigeria is irresistible.

GOVERNOR Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State yesterday announced the setting up of a Truth Commission to look into the cases of the killings in the last administration just as he declared that the government would soon set up visitation panels to tertiary institutions in the state to ascertain the state of affairs in the institutions.

ANGLICAN Bishop of Umuahia, Reverend Ikechi Nwosu, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to order the reduction of military personnel on the streets in order not to portray the nation as being under military rule.

SOLDIERS of Operation Jubilee, operating in Abia State to flush out kidnappers and other criminal elements have arrested a couple, Pastor Josiah Iroegbu and his wife Peace for alleged kidnapping and child trafficking.