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.

The police have said that they would arrest Alhaji Abdulrasheed Maina, the Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force Team, on the Warrant of arrest issued by the Senate.

Pandemonium broke out in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital on Thursday when some hoodlums invaded two  motor parks in Kuto, and Ita-Oshin ,leaving seven people critical injured.

Rev. Fr. Robert Achiaga of the Catholic Arch-Diocese of Abuja on Thursday advised Christians to celebrate Valentine Day bearing in mind that “love is pure’’.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in Benin on Thursday that he launched  his foundation in London so that the 54 African countries would have access to its progammes and activities.

 The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), will on Feb. 22 determine its next line of action after mobilising its members to prepare for a possible industrial action, a unionist says

Unidentified gunmen struck in Yola Thursday  killing one person, leaving two others injured.