Andre Villas-Boas believes this season’s Premier League title race is the most competitive in years and that his job is harder than the task faced by Jose Mourinho who led the Londoners to back-to-back titles.

Movie actor, Babatunde Omidina, aka Baba Suwe, is to challenge a Federal High Court order empowering the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to detain him further over alleged drug trafficking charges.

Accreditation and voting began before 9 a.m. on Saturday in most parts of Lagos State for elections into its 20 local government areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

The Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium in Enugu was a site to behold last weekend when former Super Eagles keeper Peter Rufai took the second in the series of Milo Football Clinic to the coal city.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes 90 minutes against one of the Premier League’s more robust sides will convince the supporters of the worth of new signing Per Mertesacker.

She may not be a popular face in Nollywood but Aniedi Innocent has got what it takes to command respect in the industry. She’s got height, beauty and brains but these qualities, notwithstanding, Aniedi is completely not a happy woman. Reason? Love has been unkind to her.

NIGERIA Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, to investigate President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged criminal wastage of public funds to hold fake meetings in a desperate bid to get endorsement for anti-people removal of oil subsidy.

Washing your hands and your children’s hands is the best way to stop the spread of germs. We are always collecting germs on our hands, by opening doors, wiping faces, playing with toys and changing diapers. We can’t avoid them, but can reduce the chance of passing them to others by washing our hands.

A group under the aegis of the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy, AFRICMIL, yesterday, sued the Code of Conduct Bureau, CCB, before a Federal High Court in Abuja, alleging that the Bureau blatantly denied it access to the most recent asset declaration form that was filled and returned by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz has died, a palace announcement on state television said on Saturday, throwing his brother Prince Nayef into line to succeed King Abdullah as leader of the key oil producer.

The former Ekiti State governor was arraigned at Federal High Court, Lagos, on 51-count charge of embezzling N1.2 billion. The matter is still in court. He was granted bail in 2007. Farida inherited the case, which was initiated on December 17, 2006.

An aspirant in today’s local government election in Lagos State and Vice Chairman of Kosofe local government of Lagos state, Mr. Oluwasegun Aka-Bashorun yesterdat prayed an Ikeja High Court to nullify the nomination of one Afolabi Shofola as the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the poll.

The Academic StaffUnion of Universities (ASUU) has put on hold its planned nationwide indefinite strike action.

As knocks and kudos continue to greet the President Goodluck Jonathan’s planned removal of fuel subsidy, it has been suggested that the best thing the President can do to get out of the controversial issue is for him to take the pains to revisit the Major General Abisoye Panel’s report on NNPC in 1995, which was further reviewed the same year by a Presidential Review Committee.

Representing a section of Aluminium Manufactureres Association of Nigeria, Anayo Okoye, an Asaba based Flight Aluminum manufacturer has also condemned the planned removal of petroleum subsidy citing the cartel in the oil sector as the major problem of the country in the supply and distribution of petroleum products. “The problem is the cartel in the oil business that takes the product outside the country which government subsidizes.”