THE international Olympic Committee’s efforts at encouraging many women to partake in the governing and administrative bodies of the Olympic Movement will be at the front burner today when the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, inaugurates a powerful 19-member team at the Media Conference of the National Stadium, Abuja today.

THE flag-off for the 2015/16 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season was not all about the tackles traded on the pitch as the leadership of the national football that was in Kano for the official kick-off took time out to pay homage to a former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Ibrahim Galadima.

lagos—The University of Lagos, UNILAG, Akoka, will on Monday graduate a student who has been graded ‘excellent’ in all the courses taken while on campus.

Where are the 25 exotic cars which the embattled promoter of Atlantic Energy Concepts Limited, Jide Omokore, allegedly bought for top officials of the Peoples Democratic Party?

NATIONAL leadership of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, yesterday in Lagos, expressed concern over leadership crisis at the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, which today has two acting Executive Secretaries.

It sounds strange, but it is real: a prisoner coordinates kidnapping from Port Harcourt Prison.

There are now clear evidence that the banking sector is going through tough times as loan impairment charges (loan loss provisions) may hit N346 billion in the financial reports for the period ended December 31, 2015.

Feeling outraged, tickled or touched by something you spotted on Facebook? Now you can say so, after the social media giant added five new reactions to its basic “like” button.

Two sailors were kidnapped after a ship belonging to French oil industry services group Bourbon was attacked in the waters off Nigeria’s coast, the company said Wednesday.

Google announced Wednesday it would provide 27 million euros ($29.7 million) to 128 news organisations in Europe as part of its “Digital News Initiative.”

Apparently irked by the corporate bad image some Nigerian citizens in foreign lands attract to the country, Governor Rochas Okorocha has called for a comprehensive list of Imo sons and daughters serving various jail terms in the United States of America prisons.

The Chancellor, Akpabio Centre for Leadership, Bassey James, has urged Akwa Ibom State citizens to rally round Governor Udom Emmanuel, describing him as a gift from God to the state.

THE Niger Delta Indigenous Movement For Radical Change, NDIMRC, has urged the Federal Government to ignore the call by some stakeholders in the Nigerian oil and gas industry to cancel the $260 million contracts for ExxonMobil’s Usan Field.

Leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Front, NDPVF, Alhaji Mujahid Asari Dokubo has said that contrary to the perception in most quarters that the name Biafra which was adopted by the then breakaway Eastern region is Igbo, the phrase is Ijaw.

Michael Moszynski, the CEO of London Advertising, has clarified that he donated his $30,000 watch to Ben Bruce Foundation, not to Senator Ben Murray Bruce as erroneously reported in some media.