No fewer than sixty fishermen, among them women, aged persons and children, yesterday narrowly escaped being roasted alive when a midnight fire gutted the Imkpikiri fishing settlement in Brass Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

LAGOS State took yet another giant step in sports when it inaugurated a committee saddled with the responsibility of introducing American football to the state and Nigeria in general.

WORRIED by the declining interest in wrestling in modern age, the people of Uwheru community in Delta State have kicked off a four–day wrestling contest.

If everything works according to plan, the U. J. Esuene Stadium in Calabar will be the next host of the National Mobil Championship for Commonwealth trials.

An ingenious financing scheme designed by FAO to allow African smallholder farmers to make more money is to be scaled up in Niger, where it was pioneered, and extended to Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal.