BRAZIL have won the FIFA World Cup a record five times and the Under-20 World Cup four times, only second to Argentina who are six time winners. Nigeria tie with Brazil for the U-17 diadem, having won it three times.
But when the final of the 13th edition holds in Abuja on Sunday, Nigeria will be attempting to surpass Brazil in this category of youth competition.

THE Federal Government, on the second day of its meeting with leaders of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday, admitted that its planned deregulation of the downstream sub-sector of the petroleum industry will lead to an increase in the pump price of petrol.

ABUJA — NATIONAL Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor has told those not satisfied with the choice of Professor Chukwuma Soludo as the party’s candidate for next year’s gubernatorial election in Anambra State to either toe the party line or quit.

EFFORTS of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George, and five others, to secure bail from an Ikeja High court that jailed them over the NPA contracts scam, hit the rocks yesterday as the same court refused their request.

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Efforts of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA) Chief Olabode George and five others to secure a temporary relief from the judgement of an Ikeja High court that jailed them over the NPA scam hit the rock today as the same court refused their request for bail pending appeal.