Leading telecommunications operator, Globacom Limited has lent its huge corporate weight behind the planned workshop by the Lagos State Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) as the official sponsor.

For bringing honour to Urhobo land, Delta State and Nigeria through their performances in sports, Chief Oghoyota Amori plans to host Moscow 2013 World Championship medalist, Blessing Okagbare and some Delta athletes who were part of Team Nigeria’s success at the just concluded Africa Championship in Mauritius.

Ghana threw away a first half lead to lose 3-1 to Japan in the Kirin Challenge Cup friendly played on Tuesday in Yokohama.

AFTER 14 years of political quagmire, the Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been repositioned for the better, thanks to the political sagacity, administrative ingenuity and military discipline of Col Austin Akobundu (rtd), the PDP National Vice Chairman South East and his team of officials at the PDP South East zonal headquarters in Enugu.

The pay is low and the work involves scaling a 50-foot tree multiple times a day with no safety net, so it is not surprising that Nigerian palm wine tappers are struggling to find fresh recruits.

African champions, the Super Eagles Tuesday drubbed Burkina Faso 4-1 with a brace by Brown Ideye and additional goals from Shola Ameobi and Emmanuel Emenike.

President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday met with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party Dr Ahmadu Ali behind closed door for an hour as part of consultations towards the resolution of the crisis in the ruling party.

After four days of protest over his decision to renounce the title `Ogiame’, The Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwase II, has bowed to the wishes of his subjects.

Former plus sized Nollywood actress Ngozi Ezeonu has reacted to rumours making the round that her weight loss is health related; insisting she only worked on her body.

GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria plc (GSK Nigeria) and Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd (SBF) have announced that under a new arrangement, GSK Consumer Nigeria will continue to carry on with Lucozade and Ribena for SBF ahead of a Global Divestment deal.

No fewer than 23 persons were feared killed in multiple crashes, when their vehicles plunged into a collapsed bridge at Yar’randa village in Charanchi Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Nigeria’s representative at this season’s edition of big brother ‘the chase’ Beverly and Melvin did a little tour of Abuja radio stations in company of Denrele, Uti, Selly from Ghana and made a major stop at hot 98.3 Abuja where Denrele revealed he helped Beverly fill her form which earned her the spot to represent Nigeria at the competition.

Three English football fans were hospitalised and 10 more received minor injuries in a clash with Ukrainian youngsters in central Kiev before the crucial Ukraine-England 2014 World Cup qualifying match, police said Monday.

An Ilorin Area court on Tuesday dissolved the four-year-old marriage between one Toibat Bello and Kazeem Bello over the husband’s smoking habit.

The four men convicted on Tuesday over the December 16 New Delhi gang rape were economic migrants on the bottom-rung of the capital’s social ladder, drawn to the city to escape grinding rural poverty.