The anxiety and confusion in Enugu State over the long absence of Governor Sullivan Chime continued during the Christmas celebration even as fears gripped the governor’s supporters over threat that the State House of Assembly to impeach him in January next year if he fails to  resume duty by end of December.

Maria Sharapova has suffered a pre-season injury scare with a neck injury forcing the world number two to withdraw from a planned exhibition match in South Korea against Caroline Wozniacki.

The Registrar of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Mr Ayorinde Ogunruku has debunked rumours that the university authority was planning to increase tuition fees.

The Super Eagles will on Thursday, Dec. 27 depart for Faro in Portugal via  Accra, Ghana for the final phase of their preparation for the 2013 AFCON in South Africa.

Mr Effiong Ekanem, the Chairman of Tourism Committee of Lagos Bar Beach, said on Wednesday that Nigerians were hospitable people noting that accommodating nature of the people has made the hospitality sub-sector lucrative.

IN an apparent denunciation of Governors of the Niger-Delta states, former Federal Minister for Information and South-South leader Chief Edwin Clark has called on the Federal Government to stop paying 13 per cent Derivation to the oil communities through the governments of the oil states, saying it was unconstitutional.

A silver platform shoe tossed to the audience by Lady Gaga and a felt hat custom-made for Michael Jackson are among celebrity memorabilia up for sale in Paris, an auction house said Wednesday.

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Wednesday, a spokesman said, almost three weeks after he was admitted for treatment for a recurring lung infection. The 94-year-old former leader was visited on Christmas Day by his wife Graca and other family members along with President Jacob Zuma, who said […]

BEIRUT (AFP) – Syria’s military police chief has announced his defection from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, accusing the army of having turned into “murderous gangs,” in a video posted online. “I, General Abdel Aziz Jassem al-Shallal, commander of Syrian military police, announce that I am defecting from the regime army, to join the people’s revolution,” […]

LIBREVILLE – Angry demonstrators hurled projectiles at the French embassy in the Central African Republic capital Bangui on Wednesday, protesting at a lack of help to deter rebels who have occupied a large swathe of the country. Former colonial power France “has the tendency to abandon us,” a protester said as the group arrived from […]

LAGOS – At least, one person has been reported dead and forty others sustained injuries from a fire outbreak in the Jankara area of Lagos Wednesday.

Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP, has poked the promise made by President Goodluck Jonathan in his Christmas message to Nigerians to improve on critical infrastructures in the country next year, describing the President’s promise as empty and diversionary.

If Frank Lampard is to swap Chelsea for China, he might do well to first consider the colourful experiences of his former team-mates Nicolas Anelka and Didier Drogba.

China launched service Wednesday on the world’s longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country’s rapid and — sometimes troubled — super fast rail network.

Mysterious fire yesterday gutted the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, Abakaliki, destroying broadcast equipment and furniture worth millions of naira.