THE financing of these community development efforts is invariably from contributions and levies from individual community members – at home and abroad -who consider such contributions as obligatory socio-cultural and filial responsibilities.

Burkina Faso striker, Alain Traore has said that it was a shame that the Stallions lost the final match of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa to the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) said on Thursday in Abuja that there was no going back on its plan to hire a foreign technical director for the national teams.

South African police Thursday charged Olympic amputee sprint star Oscar Pistorius with the Valentine’s Day murder of his model girlfriend, who was shot four times with a gun registered to the popular athlete.

Police played down reports suggesting the 30-year-old blonde model, Reeva Steenkamp, was mistaken for a burglar, and said she had died after suffering wounds to the head and hand in the shooting in the early hours of Thursday.

Nigerian officials vowed to push ahead with polio vaccination campaigns on Thursday after last week’s deadly attacks on two polio clinics, while the brother of a victim also urged action.

Tiwa Savage would be chocolates, black on the outside, yummy on the inside. D’banj would be ice cream; his shades would prevent him from melting in the sun. M.I would be a teddy bear…just a bit taller. Dr. Sid would be designer mouth wash, it’s quite hard to give up being a dentist. Two face would be a coin; it’s not hard to imagine why. For P-square, it would be hard to tell, they’d be wrapped in a square box.

The disruption in the supply of Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG in Nigeria and Egypt will curtail shipping rates in both countries as more vessels are poised to compete for fewer cargoes of fuel in the market.

Jim Balsillie, the former co-CEO and a driving force behind BlackBerry, no longer owns shares in the Canadian smartphone maker, according to a US securities filing Thursday.

Barcelona midfielder Xavi believes that some in the Madrid media are trying to demonise his team-mate, the four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi.

Experts have said that timely access to information on weather and climate  can reduce risks associated with natural disasters.

ABUJA-THE House of Representatives Thursday summoned the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, Director-General, Department of State Security Service ,SSS, Mr. Ita Ekpeyong, and the Edo State Attorney-General over the murder of Comrade Olaitan Oyerinde, Principal Private Secretary of Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole.

Roy Hodgson’s England side climbed two places to fourth in the latest FIFA monthly rankings released by world football’s governing body on Thursday.

Two journalists and a cleric were granted bail on Thursday after being charged over a controversial radio programme on polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics.

ABUJA – The National Youth Service Corps has revealed that it could not mobilized some graduates for 2013 Batch ‘A’ orientation exercise, because they were not properly admitted by their institutions.

Nigerians spent over N1 trillion on the importation of fake and sub-standard products last year, Mr Joseph Odumodu, the Director General of Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), has said.