Soccer loving Nigerians did not regret being awake Sunday night till early early Monday morning to watch the Nigerian national U-17 team; the Golden Eaglets make history in defeating hard fighting Mali 2-0 to win, for a record fifth time, the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Santiago, Chile.

Dark clouds are appearing over the campaign promise of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to pay a monthly stipend of N5,000 to unemployed poor when voted to power.

FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, yesterday dismissed insinuations that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was wooing him for 2019 presidential election as its candidate, saying that he has no such intention as he would clock 78 by 2019.

LAGOS — The World Health Organisation, WHO, yesterday, scored Nigeria alongside 15 other African countries high in the fight against the epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis.

With just three days to the 2016 FIFA Word Cup qualifier between Nigeria and Swaziland, Super Eagles Chief Coach, Sunday Oliseh has revealed that he has not fully recovered from the sickness that forced him to rush back to Belgium last month.

LAGOS — Moves by Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to influence money rates downwards brought down Federal Government bonds’ rate to a five-year low, yesterday, as banks’ liquidity position surged up to N850 billion.

LAGOS— THE All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday got 28 slots with juicy committees and People’s Democracy Party, PDP, three as the Speaker of the Lagos Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, announced the names of the constituted committees and their chairmen.

LAGOS—There was pandemonium, yesterday, at the Police Training School, Ikeja, Lagos, following the discovery of the lifeless body of Corporal Agi Elias inside his car.

Second largest national Operator, Globacom has attracted one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and providers of a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications, Vodafone to the country through a new, non-equity partnership agreement that covers Nigeria and the Republic of Benin.

IT began like a whirlwind that is now sweeping through the South East states and other states with significant Igbo population. Even though there presently appears to be a temporary lull, the dust raised is yet to settle. But that is not all. The one million protest march embarked upon by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, which shut down markets in most cities in the South-East, took a heavy toll on the dwindling economy of the affected states. The affected traders have also begun to count the losses suffered while the three-day protest lasted.

The Chairman of Nigeria’s composite online and offline retail chain, Yudala, Mr. Sam Ojo has projected that Yudala will hit the N500m mark in its daily transactions by the second half of 2017.

WORRIED by the increasing and dangerous dimension that the pro-Republic of Biafra protests are assuming, the umbrella body of Igbo socio-cultural organizations, Ohanaeze Ndigbo will meet with leaders of the protesting groups soon.

This week, perhaps on this very Wednesday that you are reading this, President Muhammadu Buhari would assign portfolios to the ones that must be considered lucky of the 36 ministers-designate. There have been media reports of anxiety among the ministers-to-be as to which of them would be lucky to be assigned portfolios.

ABUJA — The agitation by the nation’s federal lawmakers for supremacy and juicy committee positions boiled over, yesterday, when two members of the House of Representatives exchanged blows minutes before the day’s plenary session.

LAGOS—One person was allegedly set ablaze during a brawl in a shanty in Lekki area of Lagos, yesterday.