FIFA president Gianni Infantino has hailed as “promising” the use of video replays for the first time during France’s 3-1 friendly win over Italy in Bari on Thursday.

New Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has said he will soon meet with Vincent Enyeama to discuss a comeback by the Lille goalkeeper to the Super Eagles.

Good news came some months ago that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the commencement of oil and gas exploration in the Chad Basin area of North-East Nigeria. This was made known by former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr IbeKachikwu, November 2015, during a presentation to the Petroleum Club in Lagos, titled “On-going Reforms in the Oil Industry: Impact of NNPC Reforms on the Nigerian Economy”

The Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) has concluded plans to hold the 2016 Marathon Bible Reading, the General Secretary of the organising committee, Mr Dare Ajiboye, said.

In the northern part of Nigeria two vessels were used as vehicles for conquest by the Fulani: religion and language.

DEMOCRACY would perhaps lose its defining egalitarianism if it forecloses the free expression of viewpoints by its adherents – including often illogical perspectives by forces that seek to misinform, diminish and divide. Against this backdrop, we should appreciate public communicators who have achieved that delicate, firm balance between researched opinion that informs and leverages society and humdrum commentary that diminishes and stunts.

THE new plan by Governor Ambode is to either force Igbos to go and start buying lands in Badagry, Ikorodu, Epe and other areas in the hinter lands; build houses and markets to develop those areas, or go back to the South East as Governor Fashola told them to do after the deportation of Igbos in 2013.

Mr. Ben Onyechere, a Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former Special Assistant to Dr. Alex Ekwueme in Umuahia, yesterday, described the insinuation that the Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia will eye mark the opposition for ostracism as result of his victory at the Appeal Court as a sponsored hoax to imply that the governor is vindictive and malicious.

Dr (Mrs.) Idia Ize-Iyamu, wife of the PDP candidate, has said that the true liberation of Edo people from the burden of hunger and ill health would begin with the less privileged, especially women.

Despite the notice of 100 percent increase in toll fares placed on vehicles entering or leaving the airport by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, motorists in Lagos State, yesterday, paid the old toll.

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, has said that in Global Competitiveness Report for 2015/2016, Nigeria recorded a score of 3.0 out of 7 and ranked 106 out of 140 countries on Technological Readiness and a score of 2.8 out of 7 with a rank of 117 out of 140 countries on Innovation.

The Abagana Welfare Association, AWA, in Anambra State has declared four prominent traditional leaders of the community missing.

The Owerri branch of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, NSE, has called on the Federal Government to venture into other renewable sources of power generation in the country.

WORRIED by the large number of unqualified people in the teaching profession, the Teacher’s Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, said it had declared war against those it described as quacks, but found themselves in the classrooms.

THEY literally walked through the valley of the shadow of death and lived to tell the story of their escape. Indeed, for both Kudirat Balogun, the wife of a Chairmanship aspirant of All Progressives Congress in the forthcoming local government election in Ogun State and a hotelier, Otunba Olanrewaju Gbenga, their story can be likened to that of the Biblical Daniel who was thrown into a lion’s den and miraculously escaped unhurt through divine intervention. The duo who were abducted and later freed have since been sharing their experiences in captivity.