Doping results of the 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012 are out and two athletes (names withheld) are said to have ran foul of the doping rules.

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi said yesterday that in the event of the team losing to the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire, his boys would hold their heads high in defeat.

Ex-international Garba Lawal has submitted that it is possible for Nigeria to move beyond the African Cup of Nations quarter finals with a win over one of the tournament’s favourites, Ivory Coast.

It is almost certain that the 2013 season of athletics events will start in June as the race for who gets into the board of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria,AFN and who becomes president gets underway.

It is often said that evil acts continue to thrive not because bad people refuse to turn a new leaf but when good people stand by and do nothing. Classic example in our society was the ALUU 4 killing and burning of young boys cut short in their prime last year.

Barely 24 hours after unknown gunmen killed two Policemen at a popular round-about in Gombe town , a Prison Warden and another individual have been brutally murdered by yet to be identified gunmen on Friday.

It was a day of mixed reactions as the first set of contestants to make it into the top twelve of the third season of the on-going Nigerian Idol show were chosen by the viewers.

CHAIRMAN of Ughelli South Local Government Area Transition committee, Chief Ovis Uto, Friday said the council has recovered over N6m being paid as salaries to ghost workers by the council.

Chairman, Senate Committee on Environment, Mr. Bukola Saraki has declared as unlawful and unconstitutional, the $8 billion fines being sought by the Federal Government of Nigeria against Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron for oil spills in the Niger Delta.

Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has asked beggars in the society not to compound their problems by marrying many wives.