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Former Super Eagles captain, Austin ‘Jay Jay’ Okocha, has been appointed on an 11-man panel, that will select the the 23-man shortlist for The Best FIFA Men’s Player 2017 award. This was confirmed by FIFA on their official website on Wednesday. Other football legends included are: Colombian icon Carlos Valderrama, Brazil 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cup winner CAFU, Carles Puyol who won the 2010 World Cup with Spain, Japan’s Hidetoshi Nakata, Alex Frei of Switzerland, Enzo Francescoli of Uruguay, Landon Donovan of the United States of America and New Zealand’s Ivan Vicelich. The 23-man shortlist will be decided by the legends on Thursday. Nominees in other categories that will also be decided on Thursday are Best FIFA Women’s Coach, Best FIFA Men’s Coach and Best FIFA Women’s Player. The ceremony where all winners will be crowned holds in London on Monday, 23 October 2017.

Won ni won wa wa n’igboro | Won ni won ti miss wa n’igboro  Translation: They say they’ve been searching for us on the streets | They say they missed us on the streets The first two lines of verse one in Olamide’s latest viral single, W0!! aptly communicate the essence of his reemergence into the streets. It’s not like Olamide ever went anywhere. He released  Summer Body  only a month ago and even Davido’s presence on that track couldn’t save it from being a flop. There was  Wavy Level  before then and yes, that was one hit song but only by the standards of Olamide’s posh  audience. How does one forget  Pepper Dem Gang ,  the slay queen anthem? All great efforts but not sufficient to satisfy the yearnings of the streets. The last the people of Bariga and its extensions (by that, we mean all of us) heard from Olamide was  Who U Epp  – the 2016 blessing that birthed multiple remixes from upcomers and professionals alike. But th...

The Federal Government has lifted the ban on the controversial examinations usually organised by universities in Nigeria for admission seekers after the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The Federal Government had last year ordered the scrapping of post-UTME for candidates.Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Guardian in Abuja yesterday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said universities could now organise post-UTME as a pre-condition to gaining admission into universities in the country. The minister, who however urged university authorities to make the fees for the screening affordable and not to impose huge financial burden on the parents, said: “We are going to allow universities to organise post-UTME if they want. “We have asked them not to impose huge financial burden on the parents. The burden should not be more than what they can bear.”Adamu said that the Federal Government had stopped the scrapping of the examination to fully understa...

ABUJA — Over N400 billion was paid out to public officials as bribes in Nigeria between June 2015 and May 2016, a government report disclosed, yesterday. According to the report computed by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, the highest incidents of bribery occurred during encounters with the police, though the bribe received by policemen was often below the average bribe taken by public officials. Bribe taking by public officers While nearly one out of every two encounters with the police led to one form of bribe or the other, the report further puts bribe-taking to be more prevalent among judicial and law-enforcement agencies. The rate of bribe-taking spread with prosecutors at 33 per cent, closely followed by judges and magistrates, at 31.5 per cent; car registration/driving licence officers (28.5 per cent); tax and Customs officers (27.3 per cent); road traffic management officials (25.5 per cent), public utilities officers (22.4 per cent) and land registry officers (20....