– The South African Police Service has assured football fans of adequate security at the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations tournament which takes place from Jan. 19 to Feb. 10.

Dr Patrick Okolie, an Abuja based, general medical practitioner, has advised parents, who still practice early child marriage, to have a change of heart, as it could endanger the child’s whole life.

British Airways (BA) has described Nigeria as a market that is very important and strategic to its operations.

An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a security guard, Adeniran Rasheed, to 14 weeks’ imprisonment for house breaking.

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday called for a three-year prison term for Nigerian international Emmanuel Emenike after he was implicated in a widespread match-fixing scandal.

The Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola has approved the constitution of a new Governing Council for the Lagos State University (LASU).

Joseph Benjamin was allegedly said to have granted an interview to an online radio presenter who asked why he married his wife; a woman who is now separated from him and Joseph was quoted as saying he married her after she got pregnant, because he didn’t want to have children out of wedlock.

The first batch of the 2,000 Dangote Graduate Drivers Training Scheme will conclude their training in January, 2013, an official has said.

Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech says Rafael Benitez must be given a chance to make his mark at the club, ahead of a potentially stormy Premier League derby with local rivals Fulham on Wednesday.

DARE-devil armed bandits took over Auchi town in Edo State, late yesterday, robbing banks, after using bombs and dynamites to blow up the banks.

Bytesize Digital Marketing agency has won the digital marketing rights to manage the account of Konga.com; one of Nigeria’s foremost ecommerce sites after a keenly contested pitch involving several other digital agencies.

EBONYI State police command, weekend, arrested a 24-year-old nursing mother, Mrs. Edith Okoji, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death after a quarrel revolving around infidelity.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, cannot convict high profile thieves. EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Lamorde, while asking for more money to run his unproductive organisation told the Senate that big thieves had resources to keep their loot while their cases linger in court.

Barely two weeks after embarking on an indefinite hunger strike to protest non-payment of his terminal benefit, Mr. Olubiyi Odunaro, a 53-year-old former employee of Hallmark Bank Plc., yesterday, suspended his hunger strike.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has announced impending review of the newly deployed Multi-Year Tariff Order, MYTO.