The kidnappers of Mrs. Augusta Douglas-Ayam, sister to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Research and Documentation, Mr. Oronto Douglas, yesterday, demanded for N500 million ransom for her release.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho said on Thursday that he wants to create a supply line of home-grown players to succeed long-serving stalwarts like John Terry, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard.

Self-glorification is not new to Nigerians as a relevance-seeking strategy by politicians who have been left stranded at the bus-stop in the new scheme of things.

Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, dismissed insinuations that the recent spate of divestments by some international oil companies, IOCs, from some onshore oil blocks may lead to crisis in the nation’s oil and gas industry.

Cameroonian President Paul Biya’s ruling party, in power for three decades, kept its grip on a massive parliamentary majority by sweeping up 148 of 180 seats, official election results showed Thursday.

Brazil’s Sports Minister, Aldo Rebelo, is to stand down in December just six months before the country’s hosting of the 2014 World Cup.

The police on Thursday arraigned a driver, Adewale Adesanya, 40, before an Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on a two-count charge of manslaughter and reckless driving.

LONDON (AFP) – Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Thursday that his club will not abandon their principles despite beginning to make their presence felt in the transfer market. Buoyed by the club-record £42.4 million ($66 million, 50 million euros) purchase of Mesut Ozil, Arsenal won five of their first seven Premier League games and […]

BUCHAREST (AFP) – The president of the International Criminal Court said Thursday it has never “targeted any African country”, claiming any such criticism was “regrettable”. “We never chased any African country, we didn’t do anything in this respect, they brought their own situation to us,” Korean judge Sang-Hyun Song told AFP in Bucharest.

A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives in a village in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 15 people, while two died in other attacks, officials said.

YOUTHS, under the auspices of Niger-Delta Youths for Positive Change, NDYPC, has urged Nigerians to exercise patience and  give President Goodluck Jonathan more time to fix the country.

A 25-year-old labourer, Musa Haruna, on Thursday appeared before an Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, charged with stealing of 20 pairs of shoes.

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger says  zoning in the PDP for the 2015  governorship election “is sacrosanct and binding in the selection and fielding of candidates”.

Prof. Ade Adefuye, Nigeria’s Ambassador to the U. S., says the body of the late Chief Solomon Lar, will leave the U.S. on Friday and arrive in Nigeria on Saturday.

England manager Roy Hodgson apologised on Thursday following British media reports that he offended a member of his squad by telling a joke about a monkey.