Despite the challenges in Africa, experts believe that Africa’s insurance and reinsurance markets offer potential for growth.

Bauchi State Police Command and the Anti-Robbery Squad team have killed an armed robbery suspect and recovered arms in Bauchi.

For Nigerian players participating in the Governor’s Cup Futures I, Tuesday is a day they would not want to remember as no fewer than six of them crashed out in the first round of the singles draw at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club, Onikan.

An auto electrician, Mr. Muyideen Ibrahim, was, on Monday, charged before an Apapa Senior Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for stealing a Hilux jeep brain box worth N380,000.

An appeals panel ruled Monday that a Malaysian Catholic newspaper could not use “Allah” to refer to the Christian God, in a case that sparked attacks on places of worship three years ago.

The crisis rocking Benue State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has deepened as the executive members of the party have petitioned the party’s national leadership, alleging financial misappropriation against a major financier of the party and former deputy governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Alhaji Usman Abubakar.

ITSEKIRI women, under the aegis of Benin River Women Forum, BRWF, have resolved to embark on protests over what they alleged was “hatred and discrimination against Itsekiri youths, who are beneficiaries of the Federal Government’s amnesty programmes,” by officials in the Amnesty Office, Abuja.

—AHEAD of the October 22, 2013 council election re-run in Esan North-East Local Government Area and some wards in Uhunmwode, Ovia North-East and Ovia Sout-West Local Government Areas in Edo State, state Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Dan rbih, has called on the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission, EDSIEC, to disqualify the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC, from contesting the rescheduled re-run elections.

Lazio midfielder Ogenyi Onazi has said the Eagles cannot afford to let down their guard for the return leg match against Ethiopia on November 16 despite a 2-1 win away in Addis Ababa.

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have been called upon to allow thousands of students roaming the streets to return their schools so that the union will not lose the sympathy of Nigerians.

The first open heart surgery in a teaching hospital in Nigeria has been successfully carried out at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State.

The Federal High Court 4 sitting in Lagos, presided over by Justice Anumogobia is expected to commence hearing on January 29, 2014 in a N1 billion civil suit instituted against Lagos State Government, by the 76 victims who were deported from the state and abandoned in Onitsha, Anambra State on July 24, 2013.

AS Muslims in the country celebrate Eid-el Kabir which is characterized by the slaughtering of rams and cows among others, the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, ATBUTH, Bauchi, Dr Muhammed Alkali has advised the people against eating excess meat to avoid diarrhoea.

Around two million Muslims converged on Mina, Saudi Arabia Tuesday to symbolically stone the devil, the final stage of the annual hajj pilgrimage that has so far gone off without incident.