Success, they say, has many fathers. This is exactly the story of Heartland Football Club of Owerri who clinched the FA Cup September 25, 2011 after pipping oriental brothers, Enyimba Football Club of Aba 1-0 at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos.

Prof. Akpan Ekpo, Director General, West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM), owned by the Central Banks of Anglophone West Africa (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Gambia and Liberia)

THERE comes a time in the annals of a nation and, even in the history of an institution when the admiration so warmly felt for an illustrious personality is made explicit and concretized in obvious terms.

“As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.”-Albert Einstein

THE Handicapped Education Foundation (HANDEF), a pet programme of the wife of the former governor of Ondo State, Mrs. Olufunke Agagu, has empowered persons with various disabilities.

Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday rejected as “flawed” election results released so far which put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleafin the lead.

Manchester City routed Aston Villa 4-1 to open up a two-point lead at the top of the Premier League table on Saturday after Manchester United were held to a 1-1 draw at Liverpool.

The Zamfara State Governor’s Chief Security Officer, CSO, Police Superintendent Ibrahim Bamuche, who was declared missing by the state police command, may have been killed by women who were protesting against rapists in Jos, Plateau State, about three weeks ago.

SUPOL Bamuche was on his way to the Plateau State capital for a promotional course  when he reportedly ran into a group of female protesters who allegedly killed him at Maraban Jama’a in the state.

The women were said to be protesting against incessant rape cases of women and children by men from a particular religious group when the CSO who was allegedly said to have stopped to buy some snacks, having traveled for a long distance, unknowingly ran into them.

According to a police source in Jos, ‘’Supol Bamuche stopped to buy some snacks after driving for long distance.

’’He parked his car and went to some shops which were under lock and key and apparently decided to cross the road to look for something to eat, not knowing that some women were protesting against certain tribes or religious groups, which they suspect that their men had been raping women including children in the area.

’’As soon as they women protesters accosted him, they killed him him with sticks and other crude weapons before setting his car on fire.

The Federal Government Friday urged the United States of America, USA, to assist Nigeria train her Military and other security agencies to enable her address her current security challenges.

You either like him or hate him for his views, but he is not structured in the mindset of those who specialize in begging the issue. Blunt but fair, caustic and bold, the Chief Servant of Niger State has not stopped impressing his audience with his characteristic style of saying it the way it is no matter whose ox is gored.

Globacom has given the people of Onitsha two huge corporate social responsibility projects as part of its sponsorship of the Ofala festival, as Onitsha youths pledge to turn the city into a green community for Glo.

Super Eagles forward, Osaze Odemwingie, in this interview with KATE OBODO in Abuja, after Eagles were held to a 2-2 draw by Guinea, reveals why Eagles failed to qualify for the 2012 African Cup of Nations. He also weeps for the young duo of Joel Obi and Ahmed Musa

The personality clash between the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Bello Adoke and the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri is heading for the worse as both play their respective roles in the prosecution of the government’s anti corruption campaign.

EXACTLY seven days to the October 22 elections into the 20 Local Councils and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) of Lagos, leading political parties– Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) among others have intensified moves and counter-moves to outwit one another in the battle for the grassroots.

If only the residents of Alimosho knew that living in that area would pose unending hardship on them, they would rather have taken a second thought. The burden of living in that area is so unbearable that lots of people have either lost their jobs or resorted to taking their fate within their hands.