Nigeria fullback Taye Taiwo says he’s happy to have won over the AC Milan fans following a start to his career in Italy marked by harsh criticism for his defensive capabilities.

Nigerian journalists on Sunday called for an investigation into the killing of a colleague by suspected Islamists in the restive city of Maiduguri, the first deadly attack targetting the media.

Gunmen suspected to be members of the radical Boko Haram sect on Saturday shot dead a television journalist in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses said.

Mario Balotelli inspired the worst loss of Sir Alex Ferguson’s career as Manchester City thrashed 10-man Manchester United 6-1 to go five points clear at the top of the Premier League on Sunday.

The declaration of liberation in Libya on Sunday marked a “historic victory”, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said, as he urged the country to avoid “retribution and reprisals”.

Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart scored twice to give Tottenham a 2-1 victory over struggling Blackburn at Ewood Park on Sunday.

National Transitional Council vice chairman Abdel Hafiz Ghoga on Sunday announced Libya “liberated”, at a huge rally in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi was launched eight months ago.

Aba (Abia) – The Nigerian Universities Games Association (NUGA) will stage a University’s Hockey Tournament at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife. NUGA’s Technical Committee Chairman, Nick Igbokwe said in a statement released to newsmen in Aba on Saturday that the competition would hold from Oct. 23 to Oct. 27. The statement said the competition, which […]

Bauchi  – A striking resemblance between a Bauchi-based secondary school principal, Malam Isa Garba, to Vice-President Namadi Sambo, has become a source of undue attention drawn to the former. Garba, Principal of Government Day Secondary School, Kafin Madaki, in Ganjuwa Local Government area of Bauchi State, in Bauchi on Sunday, said  that he was finding […]

A Jordanian man was sentenced to death on Sunday for raping a seven-year-old girl while she was on her way to school last year, court documents showed.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a condemnable escalation of the Boko Haram crisis the reported killing of a journalist with NTA Maiduguri, Zakaria Isa, by gunmen said to be members of the sect.

The growing problem of misdiagnosis occasioned by poor state of laboratories in Nigeria and inability of health professionals to carry out accurate diagnosis before treatment has become a public health concern. This has not only caused a lot of medical errors but had led to the deaths of so many Nigerians.

Police in Niger State have shot dead a suspected armed robber while two other colleagues were arrested along Mokwa-Tegina Road. Four others who sustained injuries during a shootout with the police are said to be at large.

OPERATIVES of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have arrested a banker with one of the new generation banks in Asaba, Delta State for allegedly inflating the payroll of the state government with ghost workers.

Federal Government is to spend an estimated N310 billion in subsidizing kerosene in the next fiscal year, it has emerged. The government’s outlay on subsidizing the fuel of choice for many low income Nigerians is despite strong arguments by members of the administration’s Economic Management Team for the complete removal of subsidies on kerosene and other petroleum products.