THERE was drama, Thursday, at the sitting of the Delta State House of Assembly, following the insistence by a member that he be allowed to formally present a commissioner-nominee who hails from his constituency as was the practice in the House.

Nigeria scored five goals for the second match in a row at the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia as they beat Croatia 5-2 on Wednesday.

It was three days of action as the Gulder F-A-side train landed in the South-South zone, with Port Harcourt hosting no fewer than 400 battling for the two tickets to play in the national finals holding in Lagos.

LAGOS is presently experiencing such phenomenal population explosion that it is being projected to be the third largest megacity in the world by 2015.

Despite seeing his side beat Panama 1-0 at the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia, Coach of the Young Pharaohs of Egypt, El Sayed Diaa was still not happy.

Decades of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Ogoniland region may require the world’s biggest ever cleanup, a UN agency said Thursday as it released a landmark report on the issue.

Chelsea on Thursday signed midfielder Oriol Romeu on a four-year contract from Barcelona for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club announced.

A Federal High Court sitting at Awka, Anambra State has restrained the Bishop of Nnewi Catholic Diocese, Rt. Rev. Paul Okeke and six other priests in the church from harassing, attacking or molesting a female member of the church, Sister Angela Ejidike who is seeking justice over the allegation of fornication leveled against her by the church.

A religious court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said Thursday.

Britain said Thursday it was checking the authenticity of a video obtained by AFP showing two men, a Briton and an Italian, kidnapped in Nigeria in which they say their abductors are Al-Qaeda.

A French court Thursday ordered a formal judicial probe into IMF chief Christine Lagarde’s contested role in settling a financial dispute when she was France’s finance minister.

Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha on Thursday, played a video in a Lagos court showing some Yoruba leaders leaving a meeting with former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar.

The most distinctive feature of this sacred month is the concept of fasting, which is the third pillar of Islam. Fasting normally begins at the break of dawn and ends at sunset.

US President Barack Obama turned 50 Thursday, marking the milestone at a moment of political peril after a damaging debt showdown with Republicans and as he plots his 2012 reelection bid.

Federal Government of Nigeria has entered into a strategic partnership with businesses in the country in a bid to increase the inflow of Foreign Direct Investments, FDI, in Nigeria.