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A cross-section of Nigerians on Thursday said they were confident that the Super Eagles would beat the visiting Walya Antelopes of Ethiopia on Saturday in Calabar.  The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian senior men football team will face their Ethiopian counterparts in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier. The final round play-off second leg match is billed for the U.J. Esuene Stadium, with the Eagles holding an advantage after beating the Ethiopians 2-1 in Addis Ababa on Oct. 13. Speaking to NAN in Lagos, many Nigerian football fans tipped the Eagles to win, saying the Eagles are a team which has now come of age. Innocent Emeh, a spare parts dealer at the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex, said: “The Eagles have no option than to beat the Antelopes. “For the Eagles to have won 2-1 against the Ethiopians on their home soil during the first leg, there is enough evidence to show that the return leg will be a formality,’’ he said.  Bonaventure Audu, a b...

The late literary icon, Prof Chinua Achebe was at his proverbial best when he stated in one of his novels that the house the enemy wanted to pull down has caught fire on its own. Aviation Minister, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, who had massed a lot of enemies following her landmark reforms in the sector, is that proverbial house the enemy had long wanted to pull down. It is no secret that the Oduah reforms upstaged the apple-cart in the sector and left some entrenched interests who had claimed the entire aviation patrimony as their personal estate wondering what on earth hit them so fundamentally below the belt. Coming from a woman with a quiet and unassuming mien; and an almost vulnerable disposition was totally unexpected. Little did the cabal know that behind that cool exterior lies a steely determination to right decades of rape and desecration of the nation’s aviation sector! Having fed fat on the system, and compromised every aviation minister along the line, the cabal felt...