GODFREY Gaya is Chairman of the committee on sports in the House of Representatives. He says Eagles have shamed themselves and disappointed the country and need to be overhauled to move forward.

Barely 24 hours after the Federal Government panel on the 2011 Elections Violence and Civil Disturbances submitted its report and a section of the media alleged that former head of state and Presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), was indicted for making provocative utterances that instigated the violence, Chairman of the panel, Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, has said Buhari was never indicted in the panel’s report submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan.

STRONG indications emerged yesterday that after a meeting of well over five hours, the thirty-six state governors under the aegis, Nigeria Governors’ Forum may dump the proposed Sovereign Wealth Fund, SWF by the Federal government.

Port Harcourt- No fewer than 45 political parties in Rivers State have called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to investigate the state’s Independent Election Commission, RSIEC, over the N4.7 billion grant by the state government for political parties for the conduct of the 2011 council elections.

FOUR senior editors with Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation were yesterday arrested by security operatives from Force CID, Alagbon, Lagos.

Just as the world was getting used to the death of Africa’s first female Nobel Laureate, Professor Wangari Maathai, who fell to the scourge of cancer, another, even bigger global figure, Mr. Steve Jobs, fell to pancreatic cancer. His passing was announced by the Apple Company, which he co-founded.

Naira increased slightly, yesterday, after the aggressive Central Bank of Nigeria’s, CBN, hike in interest rate.

The naira opened at N158.60 against the dollar on the interbank market, up 3.4 per cent from Monday’s close of N164.20 and five per cent firmer than the record low of 167.8 plumbed shortly before Monday’s unscheduled Central Bank meeting.

THE immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Otunba Adebayo Alao Akala, the Deputy Senate Leader, Senator Hosea Agboola and a contractor, Mr. Femi Babalola were arraigned yesterday in Ibadan on an 11 count charge of conspiracy, illegal acquisition of property and illegal award of contracts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

THERE was wild celeration in Kano, Tuesday, following reports that the Appeal Court sitting in Lagos has dismissed a notice of appeal by the Lagos State Government against an earlier decision of the High Court which threw out Major Hamza Al-Mustapha’s attempted murder case.

Former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, has described the mass failure in the recent NECO examinations as a national embarrassment.