AC Milan have received a boost ahead of their Champions League clash against Czechs Viktoria Plzen as star forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic returned to full training on Monday.

With the exit of a certain black sheep in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, who was planted in the Commission during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s government by a godfather from Anambra State now heading a lucrative committee in one of the chambers of the National Assembly, many Nigerians, especially the people of Anambra North zone believe that it was time for the Commission to redeem its battered image over the controversial letter they wrote to the Senate leadership on June 3 to stop Senator Alphonsus Igbeke from being sworn in.

Arsene Wenger expects Arsenal to continue their recovery from a miserable start to the season when Olympiakos visit the Emirates Stadium in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Libya are likely to be replaced as 2013 Africa Cup of Nations hosts this week with fighting still raging between pro and anti-Moamer Kadhafi forces around several cities.

WHILE many Nigerians, after a cursory look at Nigeria’s 51 voyage into nationhood, calling for somber reflection on how best to evolve quality leadership that will galvanise and translate the God-given abundant hu-man and natural resources into quality of life for the people, some others have perfected plans to role out, not just the drums, but red carpet to trumpet the arri-val of another Independe-nce Day.

The Federal Government has announced Monday, October 3, as public holiday to mark Nigeria’s 51st independence anniversary, a statement from the Ministry of Interior said Monday.

Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, yesterday, said over 60,000 of 498,000 candidates who sat for this year’s examination into various tertiary institutions have been offered admission.

THERE was total compliance, yesterday, to the one-week nationwide warning strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, disrupting examinations in the nation’s premier university, University of Ibadan, University of Jos and paralysing academic activities in others.

TWO weeks after the uproar over the reported gang-raping of a student of Abia State University by five hoodlums, the police in Kano State, yesterday, paraded two of the four men who allegedly gang-raped a youth corps member.