Just as Nigerians await the announcement of the Super Eagles provisional list for the 2014 World Cup, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has declared that the country’s senior national team should not be put under undue pressure as they prepare for the tournament in Brazil.

A faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Ogun State loyal to former governor of the state, Chief Segun Osoba yesterday described the plan by Governor Ibikunle Amosun’s faction to inaugurate an executive committee as reckless and suspicious.

Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, yesterday in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, accused the Federal Government of deliberately denying states under the control of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of N2 billion ecological funds, saying other states apart from APC-controlled states had been paid the ecological funds.

Eminent Economist and founder, Centre for Values in Leadership, Prof. Pat Utomi weekend said Nigeria was in dire need of strong institutions, such as those being built in Osun under the administration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, rather than strong personalities.

Leading agriculture experts have attributed hunger and poverty tin Africa to the decline in agriculture , adding that growth in agriculture equates to a reduction in hunger and poverty.

the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, visited the riverside community of Ogidigben, approximately 220 km, southeast of Lagos and 60 km west of Warri, to inspect the project sites of the $16 billion Gas Revolution Industrial City and proposed Marine University, Okerenkoko, both in Warri South-West Local Government Area, preparatory to the ground-breaking ceremony by President Goodluck Jonathan, evidently, this month (May).

The exchange rate policy of using the foreign reserves to defend the naira being pursued by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) portends more risk to the economy.

Controversy yesterday trailed the release of an opinion poll on the Ekiti election which put the PDP’s Ayo Fayose two points ahead of the incumbent governor, Kayode Fayemi of the APC.

A SUSPECTED ritualist was, weekend, apprehended at Iyana Iba market in Lagos for allegedly kidnapping three children

“Stock Exchange lost N780bn in turbulent Q1”, PUNCH, April 22, 2014.

The report by Simon Ejembi went on to disclose that “the Banking Index fell by 16 per cent in the first quarter of this year; more than any sectoral indices, in what some analysts say is the worst performance by the Exchange in 10 years.”