Former striker of the national team of old, the Red Devils, Amusa Shittu has described the country’s crisis-ridden national football as a ‘slave trade’ and in bondage with the wrong set of people managing it.

Minna – President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday announced that the Federal Government would soon award the contract for Zungeru power project, as part of efforts to boost power generation in the country.

As Nigerians celebrated the start of Samson Siasia’s Super Eagles defeating the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone Wednesday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos, former Super Eagles defender Edema Fuludu has urged him to continue with his level playing field in the team as well as the building of confidence among the home-based players.

Celebrating Womanhood Fellowship International takes care of women and everything that has to do with womanhood. We started by gathering women and praying together with them, and then going to visit and take care of widows. On this, Promasidor, Nigerian Breweries and Indomie have really been very supportive.

Lagos – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has warned that the intensity of the first rain in parts of the country on Thursday is a signal of imminent storms and flooding this year.

Kwara United FC of Ilorin goalkeeper, Yekini Kazeem has stated that his impressive form and quality are caused by the deep admiration for Real Madrid goal tender, Iker Casillas.

The gale of peoples’ power sweeping across the Arab world came at a pace many states men and diplomats are struggling to grapple with. In this interview, Professor Bolaji Akinyemi, Nigeria’s former External Affairs Minister and a foremost advocate of democratic freedom and good governance, examines the strategic issues on the rise of peoples’ power in the Arab world as well as the southern Sudan vote and President Laurent Gbagbo’s intransigence in Cote d’Ivoire.

Nigeria’s relentless push for war in Cote d’Ivoire with regard to the presidential election crisis in that country is getting curiouser and curiouser.

Adel Al-Zanki was a teacher in Kuwait before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 under the grip of the maximum ruler, General Saddam Hussein. Though the option of running to seek refuge in Saudi Arabia was open to him, he chose to face the invaders and fight to liberate Kuwait.

YENAGOA, Nigeria- The oil money has coursed through this swampy, sprawling settlement in the Niger Delta, a paper gusher that has yielded ambitious unfinished skeletons: a ghostly high-rise hotel; a luxury shopping centre-in-waiting; a giant hospital that is mostly empty; housing and other projects, some completed but many not.

Benin – The facilities for the Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA) will be ready before the commencement of the competition in March, the hosts, University of Benin (UNIBEN), has said.

Lagos – An overzealous 61-year-old man, Olayinka Aina, who threw out the property of his aged father’s tenant, has landed in court, charged with stealing valuables worth N302,000.

New assessments from International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) have spelt out how livestock diseases present ‘double trouble’ in developing countries where increasing numbers of domestic livestock and more resource-intensive production methods are encouraging animal epidemics.

Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), governorship candidate in Adamawa state, Brigadier-General Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd), has accused Adamawa state government officials of buying and burning voters’ registration cards in hundreds in the state.

Five people were confirmed killed in a fresh attack by unknown gunmen at a village in Kuru, near Jos. The attack came barely 48 hours after the warring communities signed a peace pact to end the deadly attacks.