The League of Nigerian Sports Editors, has said in wry that Nigeria’s back to back non-qualification for Africa’s Premier football competition, the Nations Cup, was a great set-back not only to the growth of the game but to the media, football administrators and the generality of Nigerians.

The trio, Ooni of Ife, Ojaja II, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi; the Ayangburen of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Adewale Shotobi and former Group Managing Director, Chams Plc, Engr. Ademola Benjamin Aladekomo will today, be conferred with Fellowship Award at the Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH, Ikorodu, Lagos.

Head Coach of the Nigeria U-20 boys, Emmanuel Amuneke has opted to have a three –day open screening for new players ahead of the team’s camping for a 2017 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations qualifying fixture against Burundi.

Delta State Government has given one week ultimatum to Levant Construction Company handling the Sapele Road dualization project to improve on its pace and quality of work or risk losing the contract.

Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, yesterday, said it was ready to partner with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to end the perennial fuel scarcity in the country.

WE must thank DAILY TRUST for concentrating our minds on Monday this week, on the huge sums of money that Nigerian states have continued to pay, as pensions to their former governors.

The Federal Government, yesterday, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, sitting in Abuja, how the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, collected salaries as the governor of Kwara State for four years after his tenure had elapsed.

After several months of being in solitary confinement without access to his lawyers and members of his Islamic Movement of Nigeria, the leader of the Shiites sect in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibraheem El Zakzaky, was allowed to meet with his team of lawyers, led by Femi Falana and a member of his movement at the detention facility last week Friday, Vanguard exclusively gathered in Abuja, yesterday.

AS fuel scarcity bites harder across the country, civil society groups in Edo State have faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent trips abroad and advised him to cut down on the trips and face the economic difficulties Nigerians are going through.

I want to govern Edo State because I truly believe that the state is in the throes of a motor park democracy and I also believe that for us to move the state forward, we must change the way things are done. I also truly believe that the time has come when we cannot allow ourselves to continue to play the ostrich. But to change Edo State, the people must change their state of mind