The Nigeria Football Federation has urged Nigerians to troop out to welcome the Golden Eaglests who are expected to arrive the country today after theit silver outing at the U-17 African Championships in Marrakech, Morocco.

ABUJA — CHIEF Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, Tuesday, suggested that corruption-related offences should not have any option of fine in the dispensation of justice in Nigeria.

ABUJA — CHAIRMAN,Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Senator Bukola Saraki, PDP, Kwara Central, said yesterday that Nigeria’s biggest challenge at the moment was that of corruption of ideas not of money.

A proposal to extend the tenure of elected local government chairmen in Lagos State from three years to four years opens the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN to allegations of tenure gerrymandering.

ABUJA—Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of an Abuja High Court, Tuesday, okayed three accused persons, Helyn Aninye, Chizobam Ben-Okafor and Pon-Specialized Services Limited, for trial following their alleged complicity in an N1.4billion subsidy scam.

IT was indeed a moment of joy and jubilation as the National Obstetric Fistula Centre in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, treated and discharged 25 more indigent women who had suffered obstetric fistula after many years of failed attempt to get medical solution.

…Says Westerners must not regard all Nigerians as crooks
LAGOS — Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has bemoaned the high level of poverty in the country just as he has regretted that the end of military rule did not end the culture of political intolerance and impunity by political leaders in the country.

WHEN last week telecoms giant, MTN Nigeria, signed a $3 billion (about N470 billion) syndicated loan deal involving 17 Nigerian and seven foreign banks, watchers of the ICT sector were delighted at the growing importance of the sector in terms of foreign direct investment.

FOLLOWING the confusion that had trailed the investigation into the murder of Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, former Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomhole, about a year ago, Executive Director of African Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ and bosom friend of the deceased, Rev. David Ugolor, has asked the Inspector-General of Police not to play God over the murder.

The Nwagwu and Ihekwoaba families have expressed worry that “there is still no clue” to the where about of their bread winners, Barrister Dan Nwagwu and Architect Emenike Ihekwoaba, several months after they were kidnapped and held hostage by their abductors.