FIFA suspend Executive Committee member
Sri Lankan Manilal Fernando, a member of world governing body FIFA's Executive Committee, has been provisionally suspended from all football-related activities for 90 days, FIFA said on Monday.
Athletes, coaches recount Police Games experience
Some athletes and coaches on Saturday recounted their experiences after hauling medals at the just-concluded 10th Biennial Police Games in Port Harcourt.
Echoes of Fela’s dirge
ONE of the many things that that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, did for Nigerian music was to change it from merely a medium for praising and ingratiating the rich and mouthing romantic platitudes to a medium for mass enlightenment and crusading against bad leadership and social injustice.
Non-payment of staff salaries: Journalists commend lawmakers on Bill
Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Lagos State Council, has commended the House of Representatives, for initiating a bill to criminalize late and non-payment of staff salaries by employers in the country.
Court orders creation of 8 new constituencies in Oyo Assembly
A Federal High Court in Ibadan has ordered that eight constituencies should be added to the 32 seats of the Oyo State House of Assembly bringing the number of seats to 40.
Flying Eagles, Club Africain draw 2-2
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles drew 2-2 with Club Africain of Tunisia on Monday in Tunis in their last warm-up game before departing for the 2013 African Youth Championship (AYC) in Algeria.
