The UEFA Champions League 2012/13 season comes to a glorious climax tonight at the Heineken Champions Planet with the final match of the competition.

Nigeria yesterday recorded a major diplomatic victory at the on going conference of the African Union, AU, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as her candidacy for the non-permanent seat in the United Nations, UN, Security Council, was unanimously endorsed by member countries.

Nigerian athletes return to golden league action today in Benin City, after another lack luster performance at the Port Harcourt leg of the meet last weekend.

•Camps had hospitals, dormitories, arms depot & fuel dumps.
•Troops liberate six children, three women held hostage in Sambisa forest
As the military continued its quest to dislodge the Boko Haram terrorists from the north eastern part of the country, the Defence Headquarters Friday said that soldiers have taken over all the camps where the insurgents operated from in Northern and Central parts of Borno State.

The five Flying Eagles players Nigeria Football Federation, NFF officials dropped from the Germany training camp may still join their team mates in Europe.

The Strong Tower play ground in Ikorodu, Lagos, will be the place today as all is set for the final match of the Teslim “Thunder” Balogun U-17 football competition featuring Ayinde FC and Teslim Balogun Academy.

London’s Wembley Stadium will today make history as it stages the first all-German final in the UEFA Champions League with FC Bayern Munich seeking to make up for last year’s disappointment at the expense of Borussia Dortmund.

There is a saying that nothing makes a man more efficient as the ‘last moment’, I guess the saying was the defining denominator in the last week’s voting. We thought there were just 5 men and women slugging it out but the outcome was something else.

Since President Johnathan’s administration emerged in 2011, his decision to declare a state of emergency in the three Northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe following series of attacks on these states by the Boko Haram sect could be said to have received a massive applause from Nigerians.

Few days ago, Otukpo the traditional headquarters of the Idoma kingdom and the home town of the Senate President, David Mark, was engulfed in a major crisis that shook the very foundation of the town. The crisis which started as a protest by the irate youths who were protesting the citing of a private university by the Senate President, at Asa 111 area of the town, led to the alleged shooting of five Police men and six others by the protesting youths.

Lagos state government has warned managements of various Private Telecommunications Operators, PTOs, in the state to either relocate their installed cables found to be obstructing ongoing upgrading of drainage channels in the state or have them forcefully removed.

Award winning Yoruba actor, Saidi Balogun may be revealing the story of his life in a new movie, ‘You or I’ which is due to be released soon.

Nigerian born Sidney Sam explained that his decision to shun the Super Eagles was because he will do better playing for his motherland Germany.

The Supreme Court, Friday, dismissed an interlocutory appeal that was filed against Governor Olusegun Mimiko by the gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last governorship election in the state, Chief Olusola Oke.

THE Anambra State House of Assembly has summoned the state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Chief Joe Martins Uzodike to appear before it on Tuesday next week over alleged comments credited him about the lawmakers.