Board member of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, Alhaji Shehu Adamu has hinted that former Super Eagles skipper, Stephen Keshi stands a chance of becoming the next coach of the Eagles with an impending friendly against Botswana on November 12.

But for warning signals from the five-storey building in Maryland area of Lagos which collapsed, on Thursday, many occupants would have been trapped and possibly killed.

The glorious exit of Ikenna Ndaguba (MFR), broadcaster par excellence, the quintessential wordsmith who was an epitome of excellence in the art of the spoken word, and a reference point for guidance and professional knowledge in every ramification of broadcasting, no doubt, is a colossal loss to the entire nation, the Nigerian media and public affairs management where he excelled spectacularly.

When 25-year-old Emmanuel Victor, an indigene of Opubo Nkoro in Rivers State, left home for church in the morning of October 16, 2011 with his mother and siblings, there was no inkling he would not return home.

Eugenia Abu needs no introduction. She is in her own words a multi genred professional: a journalist, poet and an educationist. The popular screen diva is also a creative writer and has published, A Blink of an Eye, a collection of essays and Don’t Look at me Like That, a collection of poems. Despite the intense demands of her job, Abu still, also finds time to run summer workshop programs for school pupils. In this interview, She spoke about her career, writing and education project. Excerpt

The allegations of unwholesome deals in the sale of a parcel of land that once belonged to NITEL assumed a new twist after an online publication went to town that the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), received two houses as bribes from a businessman.

For 56 days since September 1, 2011, I took my annual leave as mandated by my bosses to rest my nerves after some weeks of hard work. I resumed last Wednesday, refreshed. So many things happened during my absence but even before I went on leave, I was kind of pissed off with happenings in our sports and decided to lie low.

Following the alleged plan to remove the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs. Farida Waziri, by the House of Representatives through the amendment of the EFCC Act, 2004, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal yesterday said that the House would seek the opinion of Nigerians before passing the bill into law.

If the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has his way, the nation would jettison the states, local governments and ministries which, according to him, are not viable.

The cry was vociferous in the land. The Super Eagles had just crashed out of the first World Cup on African soil tagged South Africa 2010 World Cup. With two losses and a draw, Nigerians were angry that the Eagles they expected to put up a respectable performances have again failed them, making the dream to equal Cameroon and Senegal’s quarter-final feat a mirage.

With its shambolic approach to carrying out its functions, the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, is in danger _ and a grave one at that – of allowing crooks to walk free.

In fact – and as publicly declared by the CCB Chairman, Mr. Sam Saba – some former state governors who had co-operated with the CCB, who have restituted, are being allowed to live their lives in peace. Indeed they are.

The second edition of the ECOWAS cycling tour will flag off in Lagos on December 5, 2011 and end in Abidjan, Cote d’ Ivoire on December 11.

Nigeria’s weightlifting team may be heading for a woeful outing at the London 2012 Olympics if the fears raised by the president of the Nigeria Weightlifting Federation, NWF, Mr Chimdi Ejiogu is anything to go by.

Yet to convince Nigerians of his sincerity on how the funds generated from the removal of the subsidy on petrol would be deployed, President Goodluck Jonathan is being buffeted by a confetti of opposition.