The Nigeria Olympics Committee (NOC) has hailed the confirmation of Malam Bolaji Abdullahi as the substantive Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Committee.

Getting the Nigerian green passport had always been difficult for business and leisure travelers at the Nigeria Immigration Service’s offices in Lagos.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said he had no power to reinstate the 788 sacked doctors in the state health service, adding that he has no power to employ or sack any doctor.

Over the last 30 years, female employment has become increasingly important in maintaining the living standards of households on low to middle incomes (LMIs). Female employment falls significantly behind some of our international competitors among women over 50 and women with children.

The Islamic Mission for Africa (IMA), Abeokuta, Ogun State has offered a life scholarship to baby Abdul-Wahab Irawo, born with a sealed copy of the Holy Qur’an in a church in Ijeshatedo area of Lagos State on May 7, 2012.

With just a few weeks to go in the countdown to the so-called greatest show on earth, more women than ever are going to be competing for glory and country in :London this summer. Some women in time past made this happen, and it’s time to celebrate these women who put Nigerian women on the map of global sports.

IN 2005, a young journalist named Ahmad Salkida was living in Maiduguri, north-eastern Nigeria, when one of his mother’s friends knocked on the door. Her son had dropped out of university to study under a local imam. She begged Mr. Salkida to persuade him to return home.

The Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Senator Ita Enang, PDP- Akwa Ibom, has urged media workers to give priority to the reportage of development issues.

HOWEVER, Southern leaders have picked holes in the Northern leaders’ claim that the North built the country through agriculture.

Former World and Olympics wrestling champion, Daniel Igali is cautiously optimistic about the chances of Nigerian wrestlers making an impact at the London 2012 Olympics.