Chelsea were hit with charges from the English FA over the conduct of their players on Tuesday following their stormy west London derby with QPR which saw them reduced to nine men.

FIFA will make half-price tickets available for Brazilians aged 65 and over at the 2014 World Cup finals, amid plans to make all tickets cheaper for fans from the host nation.

Gunmen shot dead a policeman at his home in Damaturu ,Yobe state in an apparent targeted killing, police said Tuesday, in an incident similar to dozens of other murders blamed on an Islamist sect.

PATIENT safety has been mooted as an aspect of healthcare delivery that is non-negotiable as far as welfare of Nigerians are concerned. As a result, healthcare providers have been enjoined to make it top priority in their practice.

ANAMBRA never ceases to amaze me. As a sociologist, I have always taken a keen interest in events around me and as an indigene of Anambra State, Ogidi to be precise, I always pay extra attention to developments in my State.

The body of Libyan ex-leader Muammer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday.

EVERYBODY needs fuel. Nobody needs fuel subsidy as governments have shown over the years. Fuel subsidy is a convoluted conspiracy that is at best a racket raised to a national pantheon because each government has discovered the bogey called subsidy serves its interests and myriad interests that cannot pass any scrutiny.

Governors of the 36 states of the federation, yesterday, initiated fresh legal war against the Federal government over the proposed creation of a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

“WE have been treated to this fuel subsidy story since 1999. It has been the same sing song: ‘We will use the proceeds to provide amenities, build roads, provide healthcare, etc’. But none of the promises has been fulfilled. Rather, corruption has grown in leaps and bounds. More fuel price increase, more corruption.”

THE most dominant topic of discussion in the country at the moment is a very unpopular one—the removal of subsidy on petroleum products.

A LIBYAN revolutionary fighter has bragged in a leaked video that he was the man who killed that country’s despotic former ruler, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. The young man, who is pictured but has not yet been identified, said he killed the fallen dictator because he could not bear the thought of taking him alive.

Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas is to be investigated over remarks made about referee Chris Foy after Sunday’s 1-0 Premier League defeat by QPR, the Football Association (FA) announced on Monday.

The Federal Government said yesterday that it was crucial for Nigeria to be well prepared for nuclear and radiological disasters, considering the experience of Tsunami-induced nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, in March.

Nwabufo Obienu would not want to be seen as fighting for Samson Siasia. But based on his observations in the 2-2 draw with Guinea and the performance of some players in their various clubs after the October 8 disaster the former FA Vice Chairman maintains there was element of sabotage in Nigeria’s Nations Cup ouster.