Former African Champions, Segun Toriola and Funke Oshonaike will spearhead Team Nigerian quest for honours in the main draw of the first Lagos International Table Tennis Classics.

ABUJA—There appears to be a new latitude for entrepreneurs in the country as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, launched a N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, MSMEs, fund to provide the much needed capital for that sub-sector of the economy.

Could the decision by the Lagos State government to appeal the Court of Appeal judgement that freed Major Hamza Al-Mustapha from jail consume the All Progressives Congress, APC.

FORMER Community Engagement Manager at Chevron Nigeria Ltd, and Senatorial aspirant for the Delta South district, Prince Yemi Emiko, has called on Nigerians to rally round All Progressives Congress, APC, to improve their standard of living.

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has hit back at the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) over their request to have next month’s qualifier switched.

An Ikeja Magistrate court yesterday remanded a 22- year-old man, to Kirikiri Maximum prison, over alleged armed robbery.

KCee, the Limpopo crooner would headline this year’s Literary Evening as the 2013 edition of the Creative Writing Workshop sponsored by Nigerian Breweries draws to a close this Friday at the Lagos Oriental Hotel. The event facilitated by Chimamanda Adichie, Nigeria’s celebrated international writer and Farafina Trust would bring together great writers from Nigeria and overseas in an evening of book reading and fun.

If you never have any time except reactive time — things you must do for others — you don’t have a sense of control. You are interrupted all the time. Your brain has trouble resting even during sleep. Such chronic exhaustion increases the release of stress hormones, and your blood sugar rises.” If this is your normal state, then the physical consequences increase your risk of diabetes, heart disease, and memory problems. If that’s not enough to scare you into taking some time for yourself, consider this: The hormonal effects of always being on edge help deposit fat right around your waist.

As the bell tinkles for a bye-election in Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State, to fill the vacuum created by the demise of Senator Pius Ewherido, foremost politician of Urhobo extraction and Chairman of Standard Alliance Group of Companies, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has predicted that the newly registered All Progressive Congress, APC, would defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming bye-election.

…As UK donates forensic tools to EFCC
ABUJA—The Federal Government yesterday called on the United States government to assist Nigeria in capacity building for the country’s enforcement agencies, especially training programmes in the area of intelligence gathering.

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has tasked the Chief Executives of Culture of the Federation to fashion out policies that would strengthen national unity and promote the country’s cultural diversity.

Worldwide condemnations have trailed the political uprising in Egypt, aftermath of the brutal, inhuman, barbaric and cold-blood murder of over 2,000 innocent citizens and declaration of state of emergency in Cairo, capital of Egypt.

The Federal Government, yesterday, said it will cost about N160 trillion ($1 trillion) to restore the environment in the Niger Delta, following the devastation brought upon the region by crude theft, illegal bunkering and oil exploration activities.

LESS than 24 months to the expiration of Governor Isa Yuguda’s tenure, the question on the lips of political observers in Bauchi State is who will succeed Yuguda? The political terrain of the state is once again astir as various aspirants have adorned the streets with posters and billboards.

RESULTS on ground in PDP congresses are often not reflected in the result sheets that come out of the PDP national secretariat.