Coach Gbenga Ogunbote is planning an escape route for relegation-threatened Sharks of Port Harcourt. Sharks are presently in the 18th position with 14 points on the league table and started battling relegation from the first game of the season.

The trials for the MTN Football Scholar, ‘Season three’ which kicked off in Enugu over the weekend and Abuja on Monday, have thrown up some lucky winners.

The Police and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Thursday, engaged in a battle of wit over who among them has statutory power to prosecute drug offences.

Enugu Sports Club will not be left out in the celebration of literary icon Chinua Achebe who was laid to rest in his home town Ogidi, Anambra State Thursday.

MAIDUGURI—The Borno State government is to spend about N300 million on the construction of the Maiduguri Water Works “C” in the Alamderi area of the state.

A police officer, Cpl. Patricia Agbofurere, who surety an accused, who had jumped bail since 2012, wept profusely on Thursday before an Ogudu Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos.

Professor Chinua Achebe’s pioneer books; “Things Fall Apart” and “Arrow of God”, are the most libelous books ever written against an indigenous Nigerian Community. I speak of Abam Community and no one needs be astonished. For decades Chinua Achebe through his books has been dehumanizing Abam people, portraying them as savages, cannibals, war mongers and plunderers. He denies them history of any form of civilization. It is precisely this image of Abam in Chinua Achebe ‘s books that made the Biafran authorities to make Abam community the first port of call for recruitment into their rag-tag army.

Learn Africa Plc and DN Tyre Plc reported losses in their quarterly results due to growing cost of sales and administrative/distribution cost. This also led RT Briscoe Plc’s profit to fall by 87.7 per cent.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Thursday in Abuja said Mobile Number Portability (MNP) would not cause a deterioration in the quality of service in the country.

Warri Wolves have said they were not going to sell Super Eagles Nations Cup hero, Sunday Mba for cheap.

The Flying Eagles have dropped several key players including skipper Abduljaleel Ajagun and striker Umar Aminu for next week’s Toulon Tournament.

LAGOS—A prominent Itsekiri youth leader in Delta State, Comrade Benson Erewa, has called on northerners to blame their governors, elders and leaders, who failed to avert the declaration of state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Aamawa states.

Northern elders yesterday spurned the benevolence by President Goodluck Jonathan ordering the release of terror suspects from prisons across the region, saying he would at some point in time be made to account for the women and children seized by security agents based on unverified terrorism charges.

President of Gymnastics Federation of Nigeria, Folorunsho Adefemi has vowed that the new Director General of the National Sports Commission, Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye would be a hit for Nigerian sports.

The mother of Special Adviser (Media & Publicity) to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, Madam Maria Taiwo Abati is dead. She died at the age of 81.