The Nigeria Football Federation has applauded the French Embassy in Nigeria after Super Eagles’ assistant coaches and backroom staff were issued with entry visas into Europe on Tuesday.

The on-going trial of ex- militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) and former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi over alleged fraud of N47,683,464,822, before a Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday, suffered a setback.

A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Abubakar Lawal Yar’Adua, bought a posh house worth £890,000 in London using a secret offshore company he registered in the British Virgin Island.

Family of the commercial bus driver who was allegedly beaten to death by a policewoman attached to Igando Division in Lagos, Sunday, has described as untrue claims by the Police that the deceased had an epileptic attack.

THE Federal Government will today resume negotiation with the Ayuba Wabba-led faction of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, following Sunday’s suspension of its nationwide industrial action to force government to reverse the pump price of petrol to pre-May 11 price of N86.50 from the current price of N145 per litre.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, mandated its Committee on Finance and Public Accounts to investigate tax incentives and waivers granted to multinational corporations operating in the country.

lagos—The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was last night headed into further chaos after two different courts in Port-Harcourt and Lagos issued orders restraining the immediate past national chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and his presumed successor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, from steering the affairs of the party.

THE trial of the embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh before the Federal High Court in Abuja was stalled yesterday as the defendant was said to have been admitted at the National Hospital.

A NEW champion of the Niger Delta has hatched out of its polluted creeks. It is armed to the teeth with assault rifles, bombs and ocean-wide expectations of becoming the next militant-multimillionaires through government pay-offs to ensure peaceful oil and gas production.

The Chief Executive Officer, myKustoma, an electronic commerce and market research platform, Sylvester Chigbu has disclosed that he was inspired to establish the e-commerce platform owing to his harrowing experience in Balogun Market.