In the serious business of football coaching, the rule of the game is presentation. Far from leading you team to victories, today’s coaches are increasingly coming under the microscope of journalists and critics, who search for any scrub to put in the public domain. Like the saying goes, the way you are dressed is the way you will be addressed.

As Nigeria makes move to reclaim over 10 million metric tonnes of lost transit cargoes, the factors that initially led to the loss of this category of the country’s trade to neighbouring countries are still very much present in the Nigerian ports.

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has declared that the Ministry and its parastatals are focused on mitigating the effects of lower crude oil prices by directing efforts and investments towards the diversification of oil revenue base in 2015 and beyond.

In a bid to effectively combat the growing scourge of pipeline sabotage that has impacted negatively on its operations, the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the renewal and extension of the pipeline protection contract to some of its host communities.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, said the level of the Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, distributed to voters so far had reached 81.22 percent.

The United Kingdom (UK) and the West African Action Network on Small Arms (WAANSA) have called on the Federal Government and other African countries to domesticate the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) recently signed and ratified by them to help curb insecurity in the continent.

The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion, NOTAP, regulates the inflow of foreign technology into Nigeria. Its position is that Nigerians are consuming foreign technologies because they have no alternative.

The Nigerian economy is largely dependent on trading crude oil in the international market. Oil and gas exports account for more than 98% of export earnings and about 83% of federal government revenue. It also provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings. To put it succinctly, the amount of development in the Nigerian socio economy is largely dependent on the degree to which the domestic oil industry is developed and indeed improved.

Twenty-one years after she disappeared from the screen, Nnenna Nwabueze-Okonta who acted Merit in that pioneering movie that gave birth to what is today known as Nollywood, “Living in Bondage” has reappeared again. She’s featuring in another Igbo film titled, “ Ndi Gbo Ochie”(Primitive) which they are currently shooting in Asaba, the Delta State capital.

Sexy actress, Belinda Effah has been threathening to wash the dirty linen of her colleague, Daniella Okeke in public. While in anticipation to the threat that would bring distress and embarrassment to the light-skinned actress, Daniella , it got sealed and settled when findings indicated that it all emanated from the storyline of a new movie titled, “Friends or Foes.”