The Nigerian Under23 team defeated the Algeria team 4-1 at the ongoing 2012 Olympic qualification tournament in Marrakech, Morocco on Friday.

ALL seem set for today’s crunchy guber poll as Chairman of the Independent Hational Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega lead a team of his officers to conduct the election that would usher in a new Governor for Kogi State.

About 100 companies have been fingered as those who shared about N3.655 trillion meant for petroleum subsidy in the country in the last five years, the Joint Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream, Finance and Appropriation was told yesterday.

The Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) yesterday said it was in total support of the Senate for passing the bill making same sex marriage in Nigeria a crime that carries 14 years jail term.

BIAFRAN war veterans, Friday, disagreed with some Nigerians who claim that the former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu declared war on Nigeria, saying that Ojukwu only fought in defense of the former Eastern region.

EDO state government is to spend the sum of N148.87 billion for its services in the 2012 fiscal year, Governor Adams Oshiomhole announced in Benin yesterday while presenting the budget estimate to the State House of Assembly.

FEW hours to the today’s battle for Kogi also known as the Confluence State, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have emerged as leading contenders.

Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu’s death, last Saturday, has continued to generate comments from eminent Nigerians, especially those who were with him from the time of the Civil War till his death.

The Senate has come under harsh criticisms following its rejection of calls by Nigerians that former Head of State of the defunct Biafra, late Dim Chukuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu be given a state burial by the Federal Government.

OVER 1000 Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) youths in Edo State, under the aegis of Edo South ACN Coalition Vanguard, yesterday, staged a protest at the palace of the Oba of Benin, expressing their rejection of Dr Pius Odubu as the running mate to Governor Adams Oshiomhole in the forthcoming 2012 governorship election in the state.

Athletics coach Tobias Igwe (a.k.a. Toblow) has declared that the National Sports Commission, NSC should have no problem supporting the Athletics Federation of Nigeria’s programme for the 2012 season.

They are in our homes and in the work place. We complain incessantly about them but we still keep them on. We feel somewhat helpless without them but with each day, they remain with us, we curse, shout and swear. They are our nannies, cooks and drivers.

If we ask each of you to write the most important interventions to make the industry competitive, I can almost imagine a long laundry list that includes: transport infrastructure, electricity, security, law and order, interest rate, exchange rate, inflation, tariffs (some of you may even suggest banning of some imports), export incentives, tax concessions…

The Court of Appeal sitting in Makurdi, yesteraday dismissed the petition filed against the election of the Senate President, Senator David Mark by the defeated Action Congress of Nigeria ACN candidate at the last general elections, Gen. Lawrence Onoja.

One person yesterday died and scores of persons were left with different degrees of injuries when a tanker fully loaded with petrol product fell at about 5:30pm and burst into flames at Centre for Management Development, (CMD) junction, long Lagos-Ibadan expressway, Lagos.