Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was due to meet FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke in Brussels on Monday to discuss several sticking points over the organisation of the 2014 World Cup.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas insists his team’s 5-1 destruction of Bolton showed they have finally discovered the ruthless instincts required to win the Premier League.

Bruce Beutler of the United States, Jules Hoffmann of Luxembourg and Ralph Steinman of Canada won the 2011 Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for their work on the immune system, the Nobel jury said.

The Dangote Group says it will soon construct rail tracks from all its cement factories to the national railway to reduce transportation and cost of the product.

TRADE Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, weekend, said the rate of unemployment in the country was embarrassing.

NIGERIA celebrated its 51st independence anniversary on a rather sober and scarry note as the Federal Government shelved all funfair that should accompany such an event.

THE war against violation of traffic laws in Lagos State got a boost two weeks ago when members of the Nigerian Armed Forces arrested six persons including a police corporal for driving against the traffic, otherwise known as one-way.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives committee on Capital Market and Institutions, Hon. Herman Hembe has disclosed that his committee will investigate the on going recapitalization of the eight rescued banks in the country, saying that from reports received so far, there are indications that the process has been largely flawed and the laws, rules and procedures guiding the exercise have not been followed.

Following persistent vow to rev up his administration’s war against corruption, President Goodluck Jonathan has ordered ministries, departments, and agencies to subject themselves to the Freedom of Information Act, FoIA.

The Cross River State Police command came first at the just concluded Zone 6 Police Command sports championship with a total of 98 medals while Rivers State Command emerged second.

Members of the Jaamatus Ahlus Sunnah Lid Daawatis Wal Jihad, a.k.a. Boko Haram yesterday celebrated the inability of the Federal Government to celebrate the nation’s 51st independence anniversary at the Eagle Square owing to threats by the group and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), to bomb the nation’s capital city if the celebration went ahead.

MIRRED in socio-economic and development cesspool and engulfed by recurring ethno-religious crisis and insecurity, some eminent Nigerians and groups, yesterday, said the country was yet to realise the visions of her founding fathers, 51 years after independence.

Former handler of the national team and member of the Nigeria Football Federation technical committee, Christian Chukwu has appealed to Nigerians, particularly the sporting media not to give too much hype to this weekend’s crucial 2013 Africa Cup of Nations lest the players be put under undue pressure.

ERSTWHILE Director – General of NYSC, Brig. Gen. MI Tsiga, rtd, along with other prominent Nigerians, was honoured with the highest membership status by the Nigeria Institute of Management, NIM, on Monday, September 26, 2011. He was awarded the Fellow of the institute, the first NYSC DG to be so awarded.

Some members of Cross River State executive council, including commissioners, special advisers and special assistants, were, Saturday, barred from sitting at the state box at the U. J. Esuene Stadium Calabar, venue for the 51st independence anniversary celebration for coming to the event an hour late.