FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke says his organisation does not always feel welcome in England. The world football’s governing body, has been antagonised by the British media’s attempts to uncover corruption in the organisation, while England was hurt by FIFA’s decision to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia.

Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr. Victor Ochei, has challenged Nigerian engineers to channel their expertise to the development of the country, as the profession is central to any developmental process.

ALL is now set for the much advertised end of year thanksgiving service at the corporate headquarters of Vanguard Media Limited as all roads lead to the Apapa, Lagos venue of the event today.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation’s Maritime sector, yesterday, in Lagos, berated the Senate over fresh moves to give legal backing to the establishment of another agency in the maritime industry through the Maritime Security (Establishment) Bill 2009, to duplicate the jobs of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, in spite of earlier overwhelming rejection of the plan by all stakeholders in the sector.

Ambitious and delectable, Tamara Eteimo has emerged winner of the 2011 Next Movie Star reality show. The Bayelsa State native was adjudged the most outstanding and talented in the reality television show. Tamara’s victory, which was announced by Afro juju maestro, Sir Shina Peters, comes with a brand new SUV, cash prize and three movie roles.

Following the recent slide in the country’s football , a football friendly company, Crown Media limited has launched what they call Soccer rumble, a television reality game show with prize money of $50, 000.

The Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, has said the establishment of a Yoruba Academy would go a long way to promote the Yoruba culture and tradition as well as enhance the speaking of the language by a new generation.

Cross River swept 85 percent of the athletics medals at the National School Sports Festival recently concluded in Calabar.

The President of the Nigeria Golf Federation, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola has said that the game of golf would be the biggest beneficiary of the new partnership that the Federation has struck with communication giant Globacom.”I must tell you that the game of golf and golfers generally in the country are the winner in this new arrangement,” he said.

Three persons were feared dead, yesterday, as factions of National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, battled for control of a motor park at Mafoluku/Airport Road area of Lagos State, leaving several others with severe injuries.

S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday warned Internet firms to avoid offering the “tools of oppression” to authoritarian Middle East regimes trying to crush democracy protests.

The Nigerian Red Cross has said that the blast that killed at least eight persons including a pregnant woman and her two children and injuring several others in Kaduna was a bomb.

The State Security Service (SSS) in Anambra has arrested three suspected armed robbers and seized a cache of arms and ammunition from them.

Coach of the national under-23 team, Austin Eguaveon revealed on returning from Morocco on Tuesday, how he almost quit the job days before the London 2012 Olympics qualifier began on November 26.

Twitter on Thursday began rolling out overhauled pages crafted to boost the appeal of the message-sharing service to worldwide users.