The Honorable Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi has directed Secretaries of the Sporting Federations to prepare their handover notes ahead of their redeployment to the Commission.

Albert Einstein once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, while the French classical author, Francois de la Rochefoucauld said ‘ the only thing constant in life is change’.

Following the commencement of the ‘no premium no cover’ directive from the 1st of January this year, insurance brokers said they are ready to challenge any underwriter that by-passes them to collect businesses originally rejected.

Nigeria has released two improved cassava varieties in an effort to maintain its lead as the world’s largest producer of the root crop, improve incomes of farmers and make them smile.

Despite the fierce battle for shirts in the Super Eagles camp, players still find time to unwind by sharing banters during and after training and especially when in the air in many of the flights that they take across the globe.

Operators in the maritime industry have expressed disappointment with the level of development in the industry in 2012 and therefore called on the federal government to pay more attention to the industry in the new year.

For the love of the game, Dr Amos Adamu, the former Director General of the National Sports Commission can’t stop talking football. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, marked with pump and revelry at his Ikoyi residence, the former FIFA and CAF Executive member broke his long self-imposed silence.

Nigeria’s coach Stephen Keshi is wary of the threat posed by Zambia in group C of the oncoming Nations Cup in South Africa.

Thank you for the hatchet job you did on behalf of Dangote and the other cement cartels. Personally, I do not believe Dangote is an ideal business man to look up to. He is a monopolist and believes he alone can meet the needs of all Nigerians in terms of the product he produces.

SECRETARY- GENERAL of Ijaw National Congress, INC, Mr. Robinson Esite, has described the position of governors and National Assembly members of Northern extraction to ensure that the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, did not see the light of the day over allegation that its provisions were anti-North, as very unfortunate.