THE international governing body for football, Fifa, has cleared the air regarding the eligibility of Hannover striker Noah Joel Sarenren Bazee for the upcoming international friendly matches against Senegal and Burkina Faso.

OGWASHI-UKU — THE joy of three prisoners knew no bounds, Thursday, February 2, when the Personal Assistant to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Special Duties (Media), Mr. Ovie Success Ossai, settled their prison bills and set them free. The three inmates were serving various jail terms at the Medium Security Prison in Ogwashi-Uku, Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta State.

ASABA — GOVERNORS of the South-South geo-political zone have resolved to pick up the South-South Governors’ Forum, SSGF, and the BRACED Commission, the regional institution established by their predecessors to drive the process of cooperation and integration among the South-South states in 2011, from where they left off, in deference to the demand by leaders and people of the region.

Chairman Board of Trustees, Obafemi Awolowo Foundation, Gen.Yakubu Gowon, has urged youths to emulate the life of late Chief Obafemi Awolowo to be responsible, visionary and successful leaders.

THE Ministry of Youth and Sports has disassociated itself from the electoral guidelines currently in circulation announcing that the ministry is yet to release guidelines for the forthcoming sports federations elections.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has advised Nigerians who have no compelling or urgent reason to travel to the US to postpone their travel plans until the new administration’s policy on immigration was clear.

Leader of Biafra Independence Movement, BIM, and founder of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike has called on the Igbo political class to practically jettison the idea of having a Nigerian President of Igbo extraction in the face of the current Northern conspiracy against Ndigbo.

RIGHT from the advent of Augustine Efe Oyibo’s administration as the Chairman of Delta State University Teaching Hospital Staff Multipurpose Co-operative society, Oghara for the past one year. Media reports on the institution staff welfare have taken multifarious dimensions. His leadership model has not only saturated the airwaves, but also filled the volumes of newspapers and magazines.

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has delivered on the campaign promises of All Progressives Congress, APC, to the country.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, continued its intervention in the interbank foreign exchange market by selling another $367 million to meet forwards request of customers.

WITH this headline, any critic could conclude that this writing is late but not lost in the underlying effort of some laws in the land which are either duplicates or not too necessary. There are a plethora of them in the country which are mere paper works or an exercise in legal intellectualism. When the anti-sexual bill (to deal with randy lecturers in our universities) was passed into law by the Senate being his (Senator Omo-Agege’s) second in one year, much adulation was poured on him particularly in his constituency as a local homeboy. But my reaction was different not for its sagacious input but on the need for such a law. Shall come to this later.

Recent reports of the successful passage of contraband or substandard goods through the Customs into the country call for concern. Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on January 27, 2017, confiscated 661 pieces of pump action rifles illegally imported into the country from China. The weapons were packed in 49 boxes and concealed with […]

THE Nigeria Football Federation has given a March 20 deadline to players called up for the international friendly matches against Senegal and Burkina Faso to report to the London camp.

Professional Football League.“I’m scouting for the home based Eagles,” Yusuf told Goal . “I’m going round the whole venues to see potentials that we could invite to the national camp in the next two months.’’

The unprecedented increase in prices of medicines required to safeguard healthcare of Nigerians has become a real cause for concern in recent times. Findings from a new independent study however show that high quality made in Nigeria medicines remain more affordable when compared to similar imported brands. A comparative price analysis of local and imported brands of medicines supports this discovery.