IF you were around in 1990 when the professional football league began, you will be ashamed about what is happening. The extent of amateurism that the league has attained since then has negated almost every reason for beginning the league.

Chelsea and Super Eagles striker John Mikel Obi has said he was not aware of the purported fine said to have been imposed on him by the team’s Coach Samson Siasia for arriving late to camp.

Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has appointed four manufacturing companies to supply the Point-of-sale, PoS, terminals for the ‘Cashless Lagos’ initiative, billed to commence on January 1.

Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, in Bayelsa State has called on Governor Timipre Sylva to commence the implementation of the N18,000 new minimum wage.

TheCentral Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, said it will stop the sale of US dollars to companies in the oil and gas sector. This is part of efforts aimed at reducing the demand for the dollar, stemming the free fall in the naira and ensuring stability in the value of the currency.

Students of Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo, Thursday besieged the Owerri Business Office of Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN, protesting the disconnection of the institution from the national grid.

In its bid to retain his seat, President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, invited 135 witnesses to testify before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on the April 16 general election.

All through their training ahead of the crucial Nations Cup tie against Guinea on Saturday, Eagles’ coach Samson Siasia drummed it into his players’ ears that early goals will win the match for them.

The two suits by some senior lawyers before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, seeking a scrap of the award of the rank of Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, and the constitutionality of the Legal Practitioners Act, LPA, were, Thursday, adjourned till October 21.

Federation of Informal Workers’ Organisations of Nigeria, FIWON, has called for the expansion of National Health Insurance Scheme to incorporate the peculiar needs of informal workers for healthcare services, as part of comprehensive national social protection policy.

The House of Representatives, Thursday, urged the Federal Government to submit to it programmes and projects geared towards employment generation for the youths for the next four years, beginning 2012.

Sixteen days to the October 22, local government polls in Lagos State, fresh protest erupted, Thursday, with hundreds of aggrieved residents, including party members in the Surulere Local Government Area, protesting what they called “injustice” by Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in selecting the flagbearer of the party for the elections.

Beauty queens reign for some time and then, they disappear into the thin air. But some daring ones hardly leave the scene as they enlarge their territories, break records and make something fantastic out of themselves. These queens are not just winners of beauty pageants, they are equally legends of our time, and they are currently rocking their worlds.

Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Oluseyi Petinrin, disclosed, Thursday that the conduct of free, fair and transparent elections in Liberia will be a litmus test for the Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff of West Africa countries’ collective resolve to institutionalize democracy in the sub-region.

GOVERNOR Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, yesterday, described the alleged disengagement plot or sack of non-indigenes, especially its citizens by Abia State Government, as a move capable of disintegrating the unity of Ndigbo in the country and in the Diaspora.