Angered by the denial of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung over a recent report credited to him in Vanguard and Brila Fm that athletes didn’t need training to win medals but a winning mentality, Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, Abuja chapter has described the Minister’s denial as ‘’unfortunate’’.

THE Federal Government has been urged to reduce the criteria given to universities for accessing the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETfund which runs to billions of naira lying fallow in the bank due to stringent pre-requisite outlined for possession.

A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that eating one egg every day is not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease.

Multilevel marketing is actually used by companies to increase their sales channels by letting others work for them instead of them having to worry too much about getting to the end-users. It’s simply looking for resellers rather than the traditional employment of sales persons.

Subsequently, domestic violence and sexually related cases have been on the increase. And with security measures on ground to contain the somewhat societal ill, the perpetrators seem undeterred. Prompted by this menace, the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), last week Thursday, September 8, held a special road walk in Ikeja and Festac Town, Lagos simultaneously as part of event to mark DSVRT domestic violent month, 2016.

EFInA is a company funded by the UK Government Department for International Development (DFID) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So we are involved in financial inclusion footsteps to ensure that the financial services sector works better especially for the poor and we do this in four areas. We look at research once every two years, EFInA conducts the EfInA access to financial services survey, we have done this survey since 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014 and we are doing that of 2016.

Little wonder, the audience that gathered at Quintessence Bookshop, Park View, Ikoyi, venue of the book reading could not help but gasp, exclaim and heave a collective sigh after Edify Yakusak, finished reading a portion of her debut book, After They Left.

DELTA State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that it will continue to support the candidacy of the party’s governorship candidate in Edo State, Mr. Osagie Ize-Iyamu, noting that no amount of provocation would discourage it from doing so.

To be able to understand or speculate on how a person would react in any given situation, one must at least know that person, to some extent. So, the question then is: Who was Gani?

The Guild of Nigerian Sports Editors yesterday congratulated Team Nigeria’s special athletes, who have defied all odds to excel at the on-going Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.