Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung has ordered that all the outstanding allowances of the Olympic Eagles be paid. The team has been running empty at the CAF U-23 African Cup of Nations in Senegal.

LAGOS—A 36-year-old mechanic, Bolaji Ojo, was yesterday arraigned in a Badagry Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing three gallons of motor engine oil valued at N10, 500.

Lagos—There was mild drama yesterday at the Agboyi/Ketu Customary Court when a respondent, Mr. Bayo Bankole, broke down in tears, begging his estranged wife, Ejiro Bankole, in the open court not to break their five- year-old marriage.

The power, impact and influence of China was evident last Friday in Johannesburg when it met over 40 African leaders. It is instructive that a single country which in the 1980s was still considered a Third World country, could convene what was virtually a meeting of the African Union, AU, and so many Heads of State attended. This was no gathering of some old colonial master holding a Francophone summit with its former subjects, or some illusory ‘commonwealth’ of an ex-slave master giving his former servants the opportunity to take tea and have a handshake. Nor was it some summit of international lenders or do-gooders dishing out interest loans with slavish instructions and conditionalities. Rather, it was a gathering of people with shared colonial memories of forced occupation, exploitation and underdevelopment. A people with a common past whose gathering exuded self- respect and dignity for all, and a shared vision of a non-exploitative world.

Nigeria will battle Algeria for the 2015 U23 AFCON crown tomorrow after both teams qualified for the final.