Sitting second in the log with 13 points from 7 matches, newly promoted Ifeanyi Uba United has been one of the surprise teams of the 2014/15 Glo Professional League season, so far. For a team that is tasting top flight action for the first time in over a decade to exert so much authority and lord it over and above relatively ‘older’ clubs in the league speaks volumes. One may say it is still early to praise the club’s exploits in the top flight, but it can be argued that Ifeanyi Uba United have brought about a fresh breath into the Nigerian Professional Football League.

No fewer than eight persons, including a nursing mother and her baby, were few days ago crushed to death in a ghastly motor accident at Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State, along the ever busy Otukpo-Enugu highway.

Enugu Rangers’ coach Kelechi Emeteole has surprisingly expressed doubts about his team’s chances against Heartland in today’s Oriental Derby.

Coded Tunes Entertainment has unveiled two new artistes signed to its label, namely, Gaise, an Afro-fusion artiste, and Chinekeboi, an indigenous rapper. Gaise who was formerly signed to Sanctified Records and widely believed to be a gospel artiste has cleared the air on his genre of music. According to him, ‘I’ve always been an Afro-fusion artiste. It’s my style and genre, and I understand that artistes are classified along those lines. The focus of my music is to promote Godly values, and push out wholesome content.’

Despite its infrastructural challenges, Nigeria is among the top three countries in the emerging broadband markets, according to the first Global Connectivity Index, GCI, on West Africa released at the weekend by Huawei Technologies.