Juan Mata’s decisive strike at Manchester United at the weekend means Chelsea can all but guarantee Champions League qualification by beating fifth-place Tottenham Hotspur at home on Wednesday.

Ten-man Sunderland took a small step towards Premier League survival after coming from behind to draw 1-1 at home to Stoke on Monday.

Corpses of two persons out of the eight killed in the deadly weekend attack at Lobia community along the creek of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State have been recovered.

LONDON (AFP) – Queen Elizabeth II will miss the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka in November, sending her son Prince Charles in her place, the palace announced on Tuesday. It will be the first time the 87-year-old monarch has missed such a meeting since it was first held in 1971, and comes […]

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA OWERRI — More tributes poured in, yesterday, in honour of late Vanguard columnist, Mr. Pini Jason, as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Chief Emeka Ihedioha, described his death as a huge loss to the country. He also lamented the death of Dr. Aloy Aguwa who served as commissioner under the […]

Hundreds of students, who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Monday in Kano staged a peaceful demonstration against mass failure and withholding of their results.

LAGOS — The National Association of Polytechnic Students, NAPS, has threatened to mobilise students for protests in campuses nationwide within the next two weeks should the Federal Government fail to resolve its differences with striking lecturers.

Nigerian Army Headquarters Garrison and the Police Command in Abuja, yesterday,, said they would continue to work together in the fight against terrorism and insurgency in the Federal Capital Territory because of its status as seat of government.

Justice Adeniyi Adebajo of a Lagos High Court and three of his siblings accused of attempt to kill their mother, Mrs. Irene Adebajo, has been absolved of any criminality by the police.

THE World Bank, under its concerns for our economy, public health, gender issues, and grabbed headlines again with the news that it was providing additional $120 million credit facility to Nigeria to boost water supply in some of her urban cities.

An 11-year-old boy and four others have reportedly been killed while eight villages were also sacked, Sunday morning, in a bloody conflict between Fulani herdsmen and Idoma farmers of Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.

The Department of State Security Service, DSS, yesterday unveiled the identity of the man, who claimed to have been sent by agents of Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State to eliminate Senator Aloysius Etok, representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District of the state.

MEMBERS of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, and Umuoji community in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State are on each other’s throat, following the killing of a snake in the community by the Overseer of the Mercy Throne Assembly, Umuoji, Rev Jude Chubueze.

The Special Fraud Unit, Milverton, Ikoyi, Lagos, has arrested two directors of a travel agency located in Tafawa Balewa Square and an insurance staff, who allegedly specialised in procuring fake Denmark and Germany health insurance certificates and other vital travel documents for unsuspecting members of the public.

Head Coach of the Beach Soccer National Team, also known as Supersand Eagles, Audu Ejo Adamu has invited 18 players to camp ahead of this month’s African Beach Soccer Championship in Morocco.