A professional soccer league that would be privately run and populated by privately run clubs will soon debut in Lagos, and this is authoritative.

FOR a year that nearly did not start, 2012 had its high moments, like Nigerians waking up on January 1, only for their ululations of “Happy New Year” to be abbreviated on learning they might have to sell some of their kids if they wanted to fuel. If you think it was a joke, ask those who pawned their wards to raise the return fares from their villages to the cities after new fuel prices threw budgets – except governments’ – out of control. The more enthralling details of the year follow in order of their irreverent peripherals to the lives of Nigerians who learnt the important lesson that with government, almost anything is possible.

AS this year closes, one cannot but reflect more intensely that if Chief Festus Sam Okotie-Eboh were to still alive, he would have been one hundred years old, having been born in1912 which is one hundred years ago. He was assassinated in 1966 which was 46 years ago when he was only 54 years of age. By that age, the impact he had already made in the building of the nation had been monumental in each of the several sectors of his endeavours.

FBN Capital Limited is leveraging on the yuletide season which is marked with exchange of gifts to offer a bouquet of investment opportunities to workers and other form of investors.

Sovereign Trust Insurance Plc has undertaken a remodeling of its internal business structure and appointed new officers who will be responsible for driving the new structure, ensuring the optimisation of its performance and increasing its market share in the Nigerian insurance industry in the years ahead.

Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, the Igba of Warri, has rejected the Christmas gifts sent to her by Delta State Government.

As part of efforts to re-position the country’s fashion industry and put it on the world map, the Lagos Fashion and Designers Week has, in collaboration with Selfridges, showcased Nigeria’s fashion labels to the international community in London.

ABIA State House of Assembly has passed the 2013 budget of N137. 2 billion for the state. The approved budget was N3 billion higher than the N134. 1 billion proposed by Governor Theodore Orji.

The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called on the Federal Government to step up efforts at reducing insecurity in the country in 2013 and procure more sophisticated weapons to combat the menace.