Assistant coaches for Nigeria’s U17 team, the Golden Eaglets, have rejected a 350,000-monthly pay, top officials have disclosed.

Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, of the Aviation Ministry has in the past year submitted eight air crash reports to the Presidency for adoption as safety guides.

Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, has commended the Federal Government for appointing more women into key positions, noting that the participation of more women in governance and decision-making will facilitate even development and fast-track the attainment of set objectives.

Appropriate sampling has been identified as a crucial factor towards obtaining good results from laboratory analysis in Nigeria.

AT the launch of Segun Adeniyi’s Power, Politics and Death, Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole displayed his penchant for boastful, irrational and incoherent outburst in its most insipid form. It was thus natural to ask: “what is wrong with Oshiomhole?”

Investors’ appetite for Federal Government’s bond waned last week, as the volume and value of bonds traded in the Over-the-Counter, OTC, market for Federal Government of Nigeria, FGN, bonds both dipped by 22.5 per cent and 25.73 per cent respectively.

STATE governments in Nigeria may compel nylon and plastic manufacturers in their states to use Totally Degradable Plastic Additives{TDPA] in the production of their products, as parts of the efforts to curb the menace of pollution

The Federal Government has ordered the re-opening of Bebi Strip, Obudu, Cross Rivers State, some four years after it was shut down, in the aftermath of the crash of Beechcraft 1900 D plane.

LITTLE can be done about security without the police. All the little security appendages that have been created over the years have only weakened the police on several fronts – less funding, and less political will to reform the police to standards that will serve the country well.

ONE of the phrases I have come to hate nowadays is “lesson for Nigeria”. I have really had it up my hairline; I want to puke! Everybody is now an (unsolicited) expert on “lesson for Nigeria”. If a President is assassinated somewhere, they jump out, “lesson for Nigeria”!

After months of crouching in the pipeline, the news has finally been broken that CEO of Konvict Music, Aliaune Damala Badara, aka Akon has signed Wizkid, Tuface and Psquare to his Atlanta based music record label.

Pandemonium occured in Kaduna, Monday, after an explosion occured in a building suspected to be a bomb factory, as hundreds of residents scampered to safety at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) Barracks about two kilometres away.

I sincerely apologise to my readers who have queried my absence from these pages in the past three weeks. I must say that I got so engrossed in the business of developing sports in this country, that I could not put my thoughts together in print.

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has said that it spent about N20 million in destroying more than three million fake and sub-standard tyres nationwide.

No fewer than 59 traffic offenders were convicted in Asaba on Monday by a Mobile Court Unit of the FRSC, as part of its special patrol activities.