Nigeria’s young and vibrant squad is thinking of little else apart from qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, so says stand-in Captain Eddy Ogenyi Onazi.

Some members of the House of Representatives were, yesterday, unanimous in their verdict over a recent call by the Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, on the National Assembly to help whittle down the powers of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

THE Senate has summoned the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, to appear before it today and explain his side of the story regarding the certificate scandal allegation levelled against Senator Dino Melaye (APC, Kogi West), that he did not graduate from the institution.

For us, we believe that the system is not transparent. Anything that is not bound by open law, retail investors will not go there. Let me tell you, retail investors are very wise people; you don’t go where you do not watch your investment. Fund managers are rarely accountable.

What the Senators are doing is a slap on the face of impunity and dictatorship; it is not a slap on the faces of Nigerians. I urge them never to be intimidated by noisemakers, some of whom are motivated by selfish interests

The DISCOS and GENCOS from all appearances, are bankrupt companies which need to be taken over; pouring huge sums of money into them is like pouring water into a basket

SOME eminent Nigerians have urged President Muhammadu Buhari to take immediate steps to restructure Nigeria and prevent the country from disintegrating.

A senior staff of the Library Department, Delta State University, DELSU, Abraka, was, weekend, confirmed dead while an indigene of Obiaruku community sustained mortal machete cuts following attacks by herdsmen at Abraka.

The Police in Cross River have confirmed the arrest of a 35-year-old man, Paul Nchui, for allegedly poisoning food at a restaurant in Ogoja.

Former Coach of the Super Eagles, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde says there is no Nigerian football club that can truly qualify to be described as a professional football club in the real sense of the word.

Capital releases to Federal Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, for the 2016 budget, have reached a record N1 trillion, the highest ever in Nigeria’s annual funding for capital projects, Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, has revealed.

Members of the Nigeria Dental Association, NDA, employees of Unilever Nigeria Plc, dental practitioners, and other stakeholders, weekend took to the street of Lagos to sensitise Nigerians on oral hygiene practices as part of activities to this year’s Oral Health Day.

Our leaders can either choose to look in the mirror and take full responsibility or look out the window and continue with the blame game

Rather than criticise them, I think we should concern ourselves with stopping our country from offshoring presidential sickness – both the pathological and the moral

The Sergius Oseasochie Ogun Foundation(SOOF), weekend rewarded final year secondary school students with free NECO/SSCE enrolment fees, as well as scholarship to undergraduates from Esan South East and Esan North East Federal constituency in Edo State.