President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday announced various forms of cash reward to members of the national under-17 male football team and Nigeria’s medalists at the maiden African U-18 Athletics Championships.

BERLIN, May 21, 2013 (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund’s path from the brink of bankruptcy in 2005 to Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich has been dubbed “Ground Zero to Wembley” by CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke.

LONDON (AFP) – Jose Mourinho looks set to be welcomed back to Chelsea with open arms, but his reputation has been sullied during his three-year stint at Real Madrid and he will return to Stamford Bridge with several thorny issues to address.

BERLIN (AFP) – Bayern Munich are out to exorcise the ghosts of losing the 2012 Champions League final at home to Chelsea when they take on Borussia Dortmund on Saturday at Wembley for the European title.

Prof. Chinua Achebe was a literary giant who used the power of erudition to project persuasive and powerful political points. Little is known today of the sharp disagreement between the late Prof. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe and the late Senator Barkin Zuwo in the days after the controversial 1983 elections.

LAGOS—The Coalition of Oodua Self Determination Group, COSEG, has described the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states as an aberration, noting that it would not address security challenges facing the country.

EARLY morning rains welcomed the body of the late literary giant, Professor Chinua Achebe to Anambra State as the people prepare to troupe into the famous Alex Ekwueme square in the state capital to attend ceremonies lined up for him by the state government and the burial committees.

AH, Chinua, are you grapevine wired?
It sings: our nation is not dead, not clinically
Yet. Now this may come as a surprise to you,
It was to me.

NATIONAL President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritse-jafor has appealed to Nigerians to support the current emergency rule in three North Eastern states, arguing that no progressive nation would fold its hands and allow few fundamental insurgents to overrun its democratic structures with impunity.

NIGERIA is a country of distinct contradictions. Public officers make a round of the world attending seminars and conferences on health, for example. They then conclude health is important to the country’s well-being.