Bernard Ogbeide, Head Coach of Warri Wolves FC, said on Thursday that barring any postponement, the club is set for the scheduled commencement of the 2012/2013 Nigeria Premier League (NPL) season on Dec. 1.

President Goodluck Jonathan has felicitated with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his appointment as the Country Representative for Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust.

London’s Metropolitan Police Force announced Thursday they had launched an investigation after a Chelsea supporter was photographed apparently making a racist gesture towards a black Manchester United player.

Chelsea claimed partial revenge for their stormy loss to Manchester United at the weekend by prevailing 5-4 when the teams resumed hostilities in an end-to-end fourth-round League Cup tie on Wednesday.

Chelsea were drawn to face Leeds United in the League Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday, shortly after beating Manchester United 5-4 at Stamford Bridge to reach the last eight.

– A gas tanker truck exploded on a main road in the Saudi capital on Thursday, killing at least 14 people, injuring about 60 others and leaving a trail of destruction, officials said.

Seven crew members of an anchor handling ship kidnapped last month by attackers who stormed their vessel off Nigeria have been released, French company Bourbon said on Thursday.

At least four people were wounded overnight in a shooting on the campus of the University of Southern California, police said early Thursday.

The political landscape in Akwa Ibom State was in tremor, yesterday, after the Deputy Governor of the state, Mr. Nsima Ekere, resigned from office.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, says the nation’s external reserves have risen to $42.56 billion on October 29, up from $42.31 billion on October 24.

The father of a rape victim on Wednesday told the Karu Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, that he had forgiven the 24-year-old alleged rapist.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday summoned a meeting on the resolution of the loss of the 76 oil wells by Cross River to Akwa Ibom

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented a budget proposal of N497.277 billion for the 2013 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly.

THE authorities should take a more serious look at the design of the East West Road, particularly in the light of flooding that left portions of the road under water. It is time more questions were asked about the design of the road, and whether suspended bridges would not be required in more places

DELTA State Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Benson Igbakpa, has said there was no going back on the ban on commercial motorcycles, popularly known as Okada, as the ban takes effect today.