As the build-up to the destiny-shaping and back-to-back World Cup qualifying encounters with rivals and eastern neighbours, Cameroon begins, former Nigerian international, Ike Shorunmu, told Sports Village Square that he wants the Super Eagles to beat the Indomitable Lions and thereby avenge the bitter loss of 2000 Africa Cup of Nations.

APC aspirant, Chief George Moghalu, has vowed to sink or swim with the APC whether he wins the primary election or not saying the day he quits the APC he would quit politics.

ONITSHA—No fewer than 1,000 youths of Nkwelle-Ezunaka community in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra state, yesterday took to the major roads in protest against what they termed alleged plot to remove their town union executive headed by the President- General, Chief Ikechukwu Nnalue and their replacement with a caretaker committee.

It is the moral right of any to criticise Buhari for staying ‘too long’ on medical treatment, it is not their ‘legal right’ to compel him to return or to resign unless they can show a law upon which their claim can be based

Kaduna—Basking in the euphoria of its success, the Kaduna Zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, revealed that in the last seven months, it has recovered over N227 million in its operations.

Clemens Westerhof has told the Super Eagles to aim for at least four points against the Indomitable Lions to qualify for next year’s World Cup, while also warning against recalling goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama to the team.

COORDINATOR of Niger Delta Peoples’ Congress, NPC, and member of the Dialogue Group,  Chief Mike Loyibo, has advocated the direct transfer of the 13 per cent derivation to oil producing and host communities in the Niger Delta to enable them manage the funds for their development.

At present, we have been able to pass 44 new laws and we have 20 pending legislations before the State Assembly

THE Benin Youth Council, BYC, a socio-cultural organisation in Edo State, has appealed to Governor Godwin Obaseki to rescind his decision to ban the use of schools for parties and burials in the interest of the poor masses of the state.

What a number of Nigerians do not know is that there is more to this region than the agitation for secession

THE Deputy Governor, Ogun State, Chief (Mrs) Yetunde Onanuga, has implored women to champion charitable causes that seek to improve the lives of the down-trodden in the society. She said that service to humanity constitutes the greatest legacy any woman can leave behind.

Then nation’s external reserve has risen to a two year high of $31.2 billion even as the naira yesterday appreciated to N367.5 kobo at the Investors & Exporters (I&E) window.

THE recent dissolution of the Anambra State executive of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is having its toll on the party in the state as Wednesday’s ward congresses that took place in other states did not take place in Anambra.

LAGOS—Three persons under surveillance for Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, have tested positive to the disease.

Emmanuel Amuneke has said he will not apply to handle either the country’s U17s or U20s, the Flying Eagles, because his coaching career has gone beyond that.