Former technical director of the Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Kashimawo Laloko has challenged the Aminu Maigari-Board of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF to tell Nigerians what it does with the annual grant of $250,000 (about N39 million) it gets from FIFA for development of the game.

Peace has returned to Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), following several meetings and consultations held with stakeholders and aggrieved party members by the leader of the party in the state, Chief Adetunji Olurin.

Weird M.C is presently in the studio, working hard towards the release of her next album titled, Broken Silence.

General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu died last weekend. His death brings to a certain climax the drama of a true, modern Nigerian epic. Olusegun Obasanjo was right this time in describing Ojukwu’s death as “the end of an era.” At the passing of Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu described Zik as “the Alpha and the Omega of modern Nigeria” just as he characterized Obafemi Awolowo as “the best president Nigeria never had,” thus melding paradox with hyperbole in an equal alchemy of mystery.

Battery Dance Company, a New York based dynamic cultural institution with global sensibility penultimate week held an exhilarating dance show at the New CBAAC Hall, National Theatre, Lagos.

Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) held its annual Women Mentoring Walk in collaboration with Idea Builders last week in its Ikeja, Lagos. At the talk session, Mrs. Awesiri Eyieyien, CEO of Décor and Design Victuals Ventures, advised women to empower themselves economically, socially and financially through education.

NATIONAL president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Prelate, Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makin-de and erstwhile FRESH presidential candidate, Rev. Chris Okotie have described the demise of the late publisher of Guardian Newspapers and former Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Alex Ibru and ex-Biafra warlord/elder statesman, Chief Chukwuemeka Odum-egwu-Ojukwu as a sad and irreparable loss.

After a legal battle over who was the rightful sponsor for the Nigeria Premier League, NPL, the NPL Board headed by Rumson Baribote, has gone back MTN Nigeria Communications Limited as sponsor of the league with effect from January.

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s fifth and latest novel published by Jalaa Writers’ Collective, Lagos, in 2011 holds a memorable title, Roses and Bullets, and a picturesque front cover. The stout 518-page narrative presented in four segments is based on Nigeria’s most nightmarish post-colonial experience.

Golf players from some golf clubs across the country have ended a three-day tournament at the Arsenal Golf and Country Club, 34 Field Artillery Brigade, Obinze, Owerri.