The lucrative group stage of the CAF Champions League begins today, with Egyptian giants Al Ahly returning to the mini league stage for the first time in two years when they visit Zambia’s Zesco United.

‘Moderate’ drinking was regarded as anything less than six units of alcohol a week—the equivalent of three standard glasses of wine—while some of the women abstained through the whole of their pregnancy. Heavy drinkers were excluded. When youngsters whose mothers were moderate drinkers were tested at the age of eight, those who had three of the gene variants—meaning they were slower to rid alcohol from their systems—had a lower intelligence when compared with those who had either one or two.

IMAGINE when your pregnancy is scanned for the first time so you could see your precious baby growing in the womb, suddenly its whole body gives a shudder and the foetus appears to jump. Such a movement is known as the startle reflex; and the scan described above are from photographs from scans that were taken by Peter Hepper, a professor of psychology at Queens University, Belfast, an expert on the effects of alcohol on unborn babies.

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, in its recent report indicted the NNPC for withholding and short-changing the country of over $13.29 billion over a nine-year period. NEITI in its Audit Report for 2013, had accused the NNPC and its subsidiaries of failing to remit $3.8 billion and N358.3 billion in 2013, and over $12 billion between 2005 and 2009, stating that these outstanding payments were due from unpaid consideration from divested Oil Mining Leases (OML), cash call refunds, crude oil liftings and Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, dividends over a nine-year period.

Civil Aviation regulation in Nigeria became the function of the National Government in the immediate post-colonial period. Nigeria had bought over the equities of Elder Dempstar and other stakeholders in West African Airways Corporation – WAAC following the withdrawal of Ghana in 1958 after independence; it became imperative that the new nation put in place a regulatory system that will underpin Airline Operations in Nigeria in accordance with ICAO sets of Standard And Recommended Practices (SARP) issued in 1944/45.

The programme is progressing and we believe we have gone far and all things being equal we will get to a successful conclusion. Already, Boroh has said in an interview with the Vanguard newspaper that 5,000 beneficiaries will be exited from the programme at the end of this month followed by another batch in December next year. Does this indicate that the government is actually committed to the execution of the programme?

The Minister of Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, spent the week in Niger Delta region rallying stakeholders, especially militants blowing up oil installations, to stop worrying about the things in the pipeline and the pipeline itself, and allow oil to flow unrestrained in the interest of the nation.

There is tension in Edo state as political gladiators in the state, particularly those in the All Progressives Congress (APC) file out today for the governorship primaries of the party, ahead the September 10, 2016 governorship election in the state. It is a contest that is parading powerful aspirants and that is why the tension in the party is heightening. The aspirants who are expected to file out today at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium Benin City, include:

SHE came to Nigeria about 45 years ago when many of today’s Niger Delta militants were yet unborn or still toddlers. Former militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, was about three years at the time and since militancy manifested in the region, she has been actively involved in the process of resolving the conflict, interfacing with both government and militants.

How Osun State got to its present point is not surprising for many. The spite and spark that spilled from the campaigns, and then, the judicial crusade by Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola for the governorship in the last decade indicated that Osun was bound for something unfathomable. Following his landmark inauguration in November 2010, the idea of what awaited the people of Osun State even remained more in the sphere of imaginations.