Former Nigerian international Etim Esin, has advocated the need to have two or three players fight for a shirt in the starting line of the Eagles.

A primary school pupil in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State, has lost his life while two others sustained varying degrees of injuries, when a lawyer, driving a RAV 4 SUV, lost control and ran over the boy.

United States Government has offered $3 million scholarship grants to Nigerian students for the 2011 and 2012 academic year, the US Embassy disclosed yesterday

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would transparently invest the petroleum subsidy funds on the provision of basic infrastructure in the country.

— Nollywood actor and veteran comedian, Alhaji King Babatunde Ayinla Nurudeen Olasunkanmi Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe was arrested Wednesday night, for possession of substances suspected to be cocaine by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

There was pandemonium at the Federal Ministry of Information, Abuja, Thursday as staff and visitors as well as passersby ran in different directions over rumours of bomb explosion.

Full-blown hearing on the suit seeking to sack five sitting governors from office before next year, could not commence at the Supreme Court, yesterday, owing to a petition filed against the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN, by the Bayelsa State Government.

ON the eve of the African Nations Cup qualifiers in Abuja against Guinea, what is becoming a usual task came my way, an international radio station pulled a call through to me on Friday asking me what are the chances of the Nigerian Super Eagles.

About 19 Imo indigenes sacked from Abia Broadcasting Corporation, BCA, as a result of the indigenisation policy of Abia State Government have reported their plight to Imo State Government.

Lagos State Government, Thursday, said it will discontinue the services of two of its tax consultancy firms – Alpha Beta and TAMAC- in revenue collection.