Nigeria’s national Under-20 football team, the Flying Eagles, will play against its Tunisia counterpart as well as Esperance football club of Tunis this week in continuation of its preparations for the 2013 African Youth Championship (AYC), to be played in Algeria 16-30 March.

UGHELLI—WORRIED by the recent crisis in Uzere, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, during which houses were burnt in the community, the community’s Peace and Reconciliation Committee, Wednesday, appealed to the warring parties to sheathe their swords in the interest of peace and unity.

LAGOS — Nigerian Breweries Plc has declared a profit of N55.6 billion for the 2012 financial year. The unaudited and provisional result released, weekend, showed that the company made a turnover of N252.6 billion as against N211 billion declared for the previous year.

African Institute for Applied Economics (AIAE) has released a research reports on how the Federal Government can meet its target of generating 3.5 million jobs from key sectors of the economy.

Africa’s mobile phone market, the fastest-growing in the world, is the last frontier for the industry with the promise of unlocked riches luring global interest including from Chinese handset makers.

– Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday admitted “stormy waters” during his papacy as he gave an emotional farewell in St Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of pilgrims on the eve of his momentous resignation.

No fewer than 20 eminent scholars including former Commonwealth Secretary-General, Emeka Anyaoku, Bishop Mathew Kukah among others have teamed up to publish a book entitled “Olusegun Obasanjo: The Presidential Legacy 1999 till 2007”.

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, Wednesday evening returned to the ancient city of Kano aboard a Presidential jet.

The Air force Jet touched down at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport at about 6.50pm into the waiting hands of a crowd that consisted of Government functionaries, traditional title holders, businessmen and artisans.

Nigeria’s participation in the multinational military coalition in Mali continues to generate interest as the Islamists in the Sahel are ready to engage France and the foreign troops on a prolonged military combat.
In this interview with Vanguard Newspaper, the Director of Research and Studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs(NIIA ) Professor Ogaba Oche looks at the dynamics playing out in the crisis in the Sahel.

The Federal Government has inaugurated the governing boards of four federal universities even as Senate, the Nigerian Universities Commission and others applauded government on the calibre and quality of members of the boards.

Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife will resume academic activities for the 2012/2013 Academic Session on Sunday.

This is contained in a release signed by Mr Abiodun Olarewaju, the Public Relations Officer of the University, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Osogbo.

No fewer than 1,200 girls were allegedly raped in 2012 in Rivers, an NGO, the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, said on Wednesday.

The Federal Government, Wednesda, gave a boost to power supply in the country with the acquisition and installation of three units of 15 MVA (Megavolt Ampere) injection sub-stations in Lagos.

s Pope Benedict XVI finally bows out, in the next few hours, one of the cardinals that would elect the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Head of the Abuja Ecclesiastical Province of the Church, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has declared that the election of a new Pope would be strictly based on the canon laws and the will of God and devoid of any other consideration.

Henry Ochei, a practising referee has appealed to the Nigeria Referees Association (NRA) to organise regular training programmes that would keep its personnel abreast with current trends in the profession.