NFF President Amaju Pinnick has called on players of the U-20 National Team, Flying Eagles, to go all out and grab a World Cup ticket when they file out against their counterparts from Congo-Brazzaville at the 19th African Youth Championship in Senegal on Wednesday.

The U.S. Commercial Service, the export promotion arm of the Department of Commerce, doubled its presence in Africa over the past year to boost trade with some of the world’s fastest growing economies.

THE Federal Government,yesterday, concluded the scrapping of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission in line with recommendations of Steve Oronsanye’s Committee on the restructuring of federal agencies and parastatals.

There was drama, yesterday, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as 18 political parties contesting the forthcoming general elections engaged in physical combat during a protest against alleged bias of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Ado Ekiti—Legal luminary, philanthropist and founder of Afe Babalola University, ABUAD,Chief Afe Babalola will today receive the prestigious Honorary Doctors of Law degree, LLD, of the University of London.

‘OH! I’m just loving this. The great Nigerian Armed Forces have suddenly woken up from their slumber. The Boko guys never expected what they are getting now,” said KC, a commuter in the Apapa-bound bus.

Going by the prohibitive cost of broadband, over two billion people in the developing and emerging countries, are cut off from the benefits of internet ubiquity. A major percentage of these people, according to a new report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), are Nigerians. It becomes more worrisome considering the fact that women and rural dwellers are affected most in this unfortunate situation.

Enugu—A middle-aged man, Anthony Eze, has appeared before a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu for allegedly luring members of the public to deposit their monies into his voodoo bank, with mouth-watering promise of high interests return.

IBADAN—The 32-member Oyo State House of Assembly has directed the State Accountant General, Mr. A.F. Oyadayi and two top officials of the Ministry of Local Government to appear before it tomorrow for allegedly ignoring an earlier summon on the probe of the spending of excess crude oil account allocation to the 33 councils in the state.

FOLLOWING the sacking of many local government areas in Adamawa and Borno states, many of the displaced persons ran to Yola for refuge. As the days went by, the number increased. Although there are government-designated camps, but majority of the IDPs live outside the camps with relatives.