Arsenal fans were given fresh cause for concern on Monday when it emerged that captain Robin van Persie is stalling over signing a new contract.

Sir Alex Ferguson insists his Manchester United squad can cope with the absence of as many as seven first-team players for the Champions League meeting with Basel at Old Trafford.

Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Sunday in Washington received the Central Bank Governor of the Year award.

Bomb threats has caused a shift in the venue of this year’s Call to the Bar programme from Bwari to the International Conference Centre (ICC).

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer at the age of 71, her family announced Monday.

The UN Security Council begins consultations Monday on Palestine’s application for full membership of the world body, although a vote on the historic bid is not expected for weeks.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Federal Government to take a decisive measure to end the recurring killing of innocent citizens by the police, following the recent death of a baker after he  was allegedly brutalised by the police in Lagos. In a statement, Monday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji […]

Palpable confusion and apprehension reigned in Saint Mulumba’s Catholic Parish, Owerri, following the kidnapping of three girls that attended the 7am mass in the church yesterday.

Anti-Gaddafi fighters Monday encircled the ousted leader’s hometown of Sirte on the Mediterranean coast from the east, south and west and NATO warplanes pounded the city for a third straight day

That is the best thing I think can ever happen to those living in Lagos. This will also take those homeless off the street. So many right now in Lagos are struggling hard because their take home pay can not take them home. In other words, the new rate is a good one one. At […]

ABUJA- ACADEMIC activities in public universities nationwide will from today be shut down as Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, begin a one-week warning strike to protest the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement the union reached with the federal government, raising fears the crisis facing the nation’s education may further worsen.

Since the surprising performance between the Koko master Dbanj and Ikechukwu Onunaku at the Sprite triple jam held in August this year; which saw both artistes dolling out lyrics from Ikechukwu’s hit tracks Critical and Wine am well, entertainment journalists had concluded that whatever had made the Now is the time crooner walk out of the Mo’Hits family in 2010 may have been finally forgiven and forgotten.

IN what seemed to be an exchange of banters between killer-wife, Mrs Ngozi Ademoye and members of the deceased’s family in the on-going controversy surrounding the gruesome murder, last week, of Mr. Kazeem Ademoye in his Magodo Phaze 2 palatial home, family of the deceased weekend, lashed back at the widow saying her cultism story was like pouring saccharin on a grape to give an illusion of sweetness, describing her as an unrepentant liar.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, was Sunday blamed for allegedly participating in the rigging of the April 2011 general elections in the country.