Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi’s plundered Bab al-Aziziya compound is a maze of dark tunnels and bunkers that reputedly also also houses an Olympic size swimming pool and a garage for luxury cars.

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called in an audio message on Thursday for an armed struggle to defeat the “enemies” and to “liberate Tripoli.”

This was revealed after match organizers JV2i Consult met the media in Accra on Monday to allay all fears and also to make public the arrangements put in place to ensure a successful game.

Nigeria’s main anti-corruption agency has been hobbled by incompetence, internal graft allegations and suspicions of political interference, according to a report by Human Rights Watch released Thursday.

Gunmen stormed a police station in northern Nigeria on Thursday and attacked two banks, a resident and police source said, amid a wave of such incidents blamed on an Islamist sect.

Cameroon star Samuel Eto’o arrived in Moscow on Thursday after signing a three-year deal with Russia’s new big spenders Anzhi Makhachkala that will reportedly be the most valuable contract in football.

Football officials in war-torn Libya have agreed to transfer the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations to South Africa in a swap deal that would see Libya host the tournament in 2017, officials said Thursday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to return to IMF headquarters in Washington “as early as next week” to meet former staff after the sexual assault case against him collapsed, a spokesman said Thursday.

THE World Bank yesterday, said the establishment of the Abiye (Safe) Motherhood programme by the Ondo State Government has not only placed the state in an exalted position in Nigeria, but also shown that Africans could achieve success in the health sector given the right environment.

POLICE in Ondo State yesterday, paraded a Mechanical Engineering graduate of University of Ilorin, and six others for allegedly snatching posh vehicles from several car hire companies across the nation.