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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J In April 1994, the Super Eagles (then named the Green Eagles) placed fifth in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ever achieved by an African football team. The achievement was hardly a surprise to sports buffs. The team was notable for recording successive wins that endeared them to fans locally and internationally. At the USA ’94 World Cup, they gave their foreign counterparts a run for their money due to their professionalism. In fact, their performance was so remarkable that they were renamed the Super Eagles. Over two decades down the line, the success story has been rudely cut short. Mismanagement and corruption have continued to bedevil the growth of the sport, affecting the professionalism of the team and dampening their morale. The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) takes the blame for this state of affairs, since it is primarily charged with organizing domestic and international football in Nigeria. In the past 10 years especially, the national footb...

http://ift.tt/2oQDPjS By Babajide Komolafe The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Thursday released its Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) report for May which confirmed that the nation is firmly on the path of recovery from economic recession. The report showed that 20 out of the 34 sub-sectors surveyed during the month recorded expansion. The report stated: “The Manufacturing PMI stood at 52.5 index points in May 2017, indicating expansion in the manufacturing sector for the second consecutive month. Ten of the 16 sub-sectors reported growth in the review month in the following order: primary metal; petroleum & coal products; plastics & rubber products; paper products; electrical equipment; appliances & components; textile, apparel, leather & footwear; cement; food, beverage & tobacco products and chemical & pharmaceutical products. The remaining 6 sub-sectors declined in the order: transportation equipment; non-metallic mineral products; fabricated metal products...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – A one time Minister of Health, Prof. Alphonsius Nwosu has said that he will not go out on 30th May, a day set aside by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to honour Ndigbo that were murdered during the Nigeria/Biafran civil war. But Prof. Nwosu explained that staying at home on that date was not because of the directives from the IPOB but because he has established it as a tradition even when he was a serving minister during the former President Olusegun Obasanjo government not to go out from 26th May to 1st June but to use the dates to commit the souls of hundreds of South Easterners that were killed during the war. He also said that the style and ideology of the Biafran Republic declared by late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was different from the Nnamdi Kanu-led IPOB, adding that the later had made the struggle which was about liberation, equity and fairness to look like Igbo agitation. On the sit-at-home-order, Prof. ABC...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Former Lagos State Governor, Sen. Bola Tinubu on Sunday urged Nigerians not to take the nation’s democracy for granted, but keep and nurture it for the progress and growth of the country. Tinubu,  an All Progressives Congress (APC) national stalwart, made the call in his message on this year’s Democracy Day and 2nd year of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He urged Nigerians to remain vigilant, and by doing so, ensure a better future and better Nigeria for all. ”Democracy Day and our commemoration of it must be more than an empty ritual. It must add up to more than another reason to have another holiday. ”We, as a people, choose democracy as our preferred form of governance not because it would be easy to achieve or to hold even once we have it. ”We choose democracy because history has taught us that the welfare of the people is best and perhaps only secured by government responsive and accountable to the people. This can only be democracy. ”M...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Arsenal has won the English Cup by defeating league champions, Chelsea 2-1 in a final played at Wembley. Goals for Arsenal were scored by Alexis Sanchez and Aaron Ramsey while Diego Costa got Chelsea’s only goal. The post Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-1 to win FA Cup appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2s7Xdr9