Former Bafana Bafana stalwart Brian Baloyi believes Stephen Keshi’s success with Nigeria offers a blueprint for other local coaches to emulate.

Former NFA Chairman, Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima, says he was delighted that the Super Eagles won the Nations Cup in South Africa and gradually the autonomy for football management, which he fought in his time as the leader of the football federation is gradually seeing the light of day.

President Goodluck Jonathan has reversed the change of name of the University of Lagos which he renamed Moshood Abiola University in a broadcast to mark the 2012 Democracy Day.

Nigerian security forces searched the country’s northeast along the border with Cameroon on Thursday in a bid to free a French family kidnapped earlier this week, officials said.

ABEOKUTA—An Ogun State High Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, Thursday, struck out the application exparte filed by the sacked National Auditor of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode Mustapha for “lack of diligent prosecution”.

— Traders in Ladipo International Market have described as untrue suggestions that the market is unclean, even as they called on the Lagos State Government to shelve its planned closure of the market because of environmental issues.

ABUJA—Twenty four hours after President Goodluck Jonathan approved payment of N384billion for the settlement of outstanding benefits of Power Holdings Company of Nigeria, PHCN, staff, the Federal Government Thursday signed transaction and industry agreements with successor companies to PHCN, formally marking the final take off of reforms of the electricity generation and distribution industry.

WIFE of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan yesterday boasted that 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

Pop star and son of legendary late actor, Justus Esiri, Onoriode Esiri, popularly known as Dr. Sid, yesterday, said he was not shattered by his father’s death.

The Igbo Youths Movement, IYM, Thursday gave the Senior Special Adviser, Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, 48 hours to apologise to Ndigbo over his alleged “uncivilised vituperations,” against elder-statesman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze, following the latter’s remark that Nigeria was becoming a failed state.

Network on Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, has condemned the detention of a pregnant woman, Mrs Chinwendu Ezike, who travelled from Lagos to see her mother, Mrs. Celestina Okolie, a widow, currently being detained at ‘D’ Division Zone 9, Umuahia in Abia State, over alleged trumped-up charges.

Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, said, Thursday, that the uncertainties surrounding the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, were stalling its investments worth about $30 billion in two offshore deepwater projects in the country.

THE Federal Government has commenced the construction of a deep sea port at the Federal Ocean Terminal, in Onne, near Port Harcourt, Rivers State, to boost the operations of Liquid Natural Gas, LNG, and other deep off shore operations. The project is being executed in partnership with Intels Logistics.

THE World Bank has threatened to stop the funding of Fadama 111 programme in states and local government areas that failed to pay their counterpart funds for the sustenance of the programme.

The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko has reaffirmed that smuggling of rice and other edible items through land borders has drastically reduced following an increase in revenue profile of the border posts.