Nigeria will most likely go along with CAF to vote Salman Al Khalifa today in Switzerland as the next president of world football governing body FIFA.

Facebook founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg, whose first child was born in November, on Thursday boasted that he could change a nappy in 20 seconds.

AS the impending 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigerian and the Pharaohs of Egypt looms, former Nigeria international, Nduka Ugbade has sounded a note of warning to coach Sunday Oliseh and his wards not to expect an easy match in Kaduna.

This week, the Federal Government filed 11 fraud and money-laundering charges against Comrade Abba Moro, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Interior, his alleged accomplices (including the Ministry’s former Permanent Secretary) and Drexel Global Technology Limited, a company that is said to be linked to Moro.

AS the privilege of producingthe governor of Oyo State continues to elude indigenes of Oke-Ogun area of the state, notable sons and daughters of the agrarian zone have commenced moves to address the continued marginalisation of the area. Leading the call for recognition of the zone are the Aseyin of Iseyin, Oba (Dr.) Abdulganiyu Ologunebi Ajinese 1, and Professor Emeritus, Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

Determined to reduce risk and enhance chances of survival of patients, the Lagos State Government, last week conducted a test run of its newly built heliport at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, to ascertain its readiness for operation during medical emergencies in the state. A heliport is a small airport suitable only for use by helicopters.

THE Lagos State Government has expressed worries over the structural stability of buildings in Badagry axis of the state, saying “only 46 of the over 500 buildings erected within the last five years are certified by the government.” This was disclosed at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Badagry Town Hall for residents of Badagry to sensitize them on plans to develop the axis.

They lamented that many of them attend government programmes using taxi cabs because they have been pauperised. “The sight of a traditional ruler hopping into a taxi cab or begging for a ride when invited for official duties in the state capital does no good to the image of the state. Selective provision of exotic official vehicles to some is not a good thing at all,” they lamented.

Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, officials yesterday confessed before the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation that some of the installed scanners at some Nigerian airports were faulty.

The host community of the proposed new refinery in Lagos and its surrounding communities have distanced themselves from recent reports in the media about opposition to the project.

In a bid to buttress the need for spiritual intervention following Federal Government’s refusal to heed three subsisting Federal High Court orders granting detained Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu, bail, Archbishop of Enugu, Ebonyi and Anambra States Ecclesiastical Province, Rt. Rev. Emmanel Chukwuma, yesterday, cautioned the Federal Government to tread softly on the issue given Niger Delta militants’ threat to blow up more crude oil installations if Kanu was not released.

UK-based Catholic priest, Fr. Albert Owie Ofere from Diocese of Warri, Delta State is on the way to write his name in gold, as he delves into music to further propagate the gospel of salvation to humanity.

The siege on Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State by suspected Fulani herdsmen has continued with no fewer than 300 persons reportedly killed in the last one week.

THE Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s anti-graft crusade was not to witch hunt anybody but to expose Nigerians to cost of corruption.

ABUJA — THE House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, yesterday, revealed plans to hold budget session with Kemi Adeosun, Minister of Finance and Udoma Udo Udoma, Minister of Budget and Planning on the 2016 budget proposal to explain the many errors associated with it.