National U-23 Eagles opponents in Sunday’s Olympic Games qualifier, Congo are expected to arrive Nigeria today.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Melvin Pinnick says the appointment of Sunday Oliseh as the Super Eagles coach is just the beginning as his team continue to revamp the country’s football fortunes.

First City Monument Bank, FCMB Ltd and Acugas Ltd have entered into a financing agreement that will see the bank and four others lend $445 million, (about N87.7billion) to Acugas to develop gas infrastructure in Nigeria.

The Chairman of the Local Organi-zing Committee for the 2016 Olympic qualifying match between Nigeria’s U-23 team and their Congolese counterparts, Hon. Boma Iyaye has assured both teams and fans coming to the stadium of maximum security during the encounter on Sunday.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State yesterday announced the names of 13 special advisers as approved by the House of Assembly. He had earlier sworn in two special advisers at separate ceremonies bringing the number of his advisers to 15

Preliminary results from experimental plots carried out by researchers working under the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) led Cassava Weed Management Project show that by switching to improved weed management practices, Nigerian cassava farmers can double current national average yield of 12-13 tons per hectare.

Capital Bancorp Plc has predicted that the current stock market downturn is likely to rebound by the fourth quarter of 2015, just as the company plans to host investor forum to enlighten both existing and prospective investors about investible opportunity in the Nigerian capital market.

The institute of Empowerment and Strategy, IES, has announced plans to empower over three million entrepreneurs with the resources to grow their businesses and positioning them to contribute meaningfully to job creation and economic development.

Hostilities for the third and final phase of the 2015 Zenith Bank women Basketball league will dunk-off on Sunday July 19, 2015 at the indoor Sports hall of the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos as only eight teams out of the eighteen that started the race qualified for finals.

AS part of his efforts to stamp out ghost workers from the primary education sector, Chairman of Delta State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Mr Elijah Ologe, has directed the Heads of Personnel Management, HPM, in the 25 local government areas in the state to conduct head count of workers in their respective councils within 72 hours.

Today possibly marks the beginning of Shawwal after the end of the most blessed month which ended yesterday. It was a period of absolute devotion, of nearness to Allah, of favour and blessings, of forgiveness and righteousness, of abstinence from food and drink, and materialism, of Tahjuds and divine Powers, of Charity and kindness.

Against reports that the Oyo State government is planning to retrench workers in its civil service owing to its planned reduction of ministries from 23 to 13, the state government has said the on-going verification exercise among civil and public servants in the state was for the restructuring of public service and not for retrenchment as being speculated.

The leadership of Ijaw Youth Club, IYC, Lagos, has set up three standing committees to ensure the victory of Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayalsa State, during the forth coming Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries in the state.

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has commenced investigations into the persistent depreciation of the naira in the parallel market.

The naira has depreciated by N42 in the parallel market since Tuesday June 28, when the apex bank, banned 41 items from the foreign exchange market. From N220 per dollar as at June 28, the parallel market exchange rate rose to N242 as at Thursday

The Twin blasts in Gombe has been reported to have killed 49, and injured dozens