A Mobile policeman allegedly shot dead, a taxi driver, Tuesday, at a popular nite club in Opebi area of Lagos State.

WHEN Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun was given the microphone at the wee hours of last Saturday to address a mammoth crowd of people at the Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Redemption Camp, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, he carefully chose his words as he eulogised the person of the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, describing him as a game of soccer which is the only thing that unites all Nigerians.

A memorial lecture to mark one year of the death of Emeka Enechi, a former Chairman of Lagos State Sports Writers Association (SWAN) will hold on August 31 at the Secretariat of SWAN inside the National Stadium in Lagos.

Mogadishu: Islamist al Shabaab rebels fought Somali government troops and AU peacekeepers in northern Mogadishu on Tuesday, prompting doctors and children to flee a hospital being hit by stray bullets, an official said.

English Premier League club, Chelsea have declared its support for one of their own, Nigeria’s John Obi Mikel, whose father was abducted in Jos, Friday last week.

West Brom are prepared to sell Peter Odemwingie for £8 million, according to the Daily Mail.

Security agencies have combed Jos in a security net as the search for Michael Obi, the abducted father of football star John Mikel Obi gathers pace.

The proposal by President Goodluck Jonathan for a single six-year tenure for presidents and governors,and an extension of tenure for National Assembly members,has been generating a lot of controversy in the polity.

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced a Nigerian-born man accused of leading an international prostitution ring which used voodoo to threaten victims to seven years in jail.

Arsenal have agreed a transfer deal which will see Emmanuel Eboue join Turkish giants Galatasaray, it was confirmed Tuesday.

Sheryl Cwele, the wife of South Africa’s intelligence minister, was fired Tuesday from her senior municipal job after being sentenced to 12 years in jail for drug trafficking.

For the uninitiated, there was very little to chose between the Flying Eagles of Nigeria and their French counterparts Sunday night when they clashed in the quarterfinal of the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia.

The Ukrainian women’s group, Femen, took its distinctive brand of protest to the trial of ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday when two activists climbed atop a police wagon outside the court and bared their breasts.

Secondary school mathematics teachers have attributed the failure in the subject among students to the lack of concentration and laziness.

An Islamic Scholar and University of Ilorin Lecturer, Dr Ibraheem Abikan, has disclosed that Islamic banking was first licenced in the South-West zone in 1963.