Super Eagles Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, is expected to rejoin the squad today after a hectic World Cup draw schedule that was rounded off with a search for the team’s permanent camp in Brazil last week.

The adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards has enhanced the perception of Nigeria in the international community, Minister for Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga disclosed this at the 10th annual Financial Reporting Council summit held in Lagos. “The first phase of the adoption of IFRS in Nigeria has started producing enhanced perception for Nigeria,” he said.

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), on Tuesday in Nairobi, announced a five-year project that seeks to increase incomes of smallholder farmers through the creation of an enabling policy environment in Africa.

THE Senate yesterday mandated its Committee on Finance to begin a full-scale investigation into the alleged missing $49.8 billion from the coffers of the Federal Government.

Retired workers of defunct national carrier, Nigerian Airways, yesterday, appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to use his good offices to pay them outstanding N70 billion pension arrears.

THOSE of us who declared the National Dialogue soon to be convened by President Goodluck Jonathan as a jamboree might be justified after all. The Monday, December 9, 2013 issue of Vanguard gave an insight into what we are to expect in the coming few weeks.

When SKYNEWS interrupted programming last Thursday night to bring a live event, and I saw South African President, Jacob Zuma appear on screen, the journalist in me instinctively guessed that Nelson Mandela had passed. A moment later the fact was confirmed.

Rt. Reverend Paul Udogu is the Bishop of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) Afikpo Diocese, Ebonyi State. In this interview the cleric bares his mind on key national issues in the country especially the proposed national dialogue, saying that ethnic nationalities must answer the question as to whether they still want to continue as a nation. EXCERPTS:

The fluid political climate in Taraba State deteriorated, yesterday, when members of the State House of Assembly ignored a state High Court injunction restraining them from clearing four persons nominated by the Acting Governor, Garba Umar, for appointment as commissioners.

Yesterday, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who was reinstated by the courts as the National Secretary, wrote INEC asking it not to recognise any correspondence from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, not signed by him.
Hours after his letter arrived INEC, the mainstream PDP led by Alhaji Bamanga Tukur also wrote INEC, informing it of the suspension of Oyinlola from the party.