FIFA yesterday announced the following pots to be used for Friday’s draw for next year’s World Cup finals when the 32 teams will be placed into eight first-round groups of four.

BY DAYO JOHNSON AKURE — THE age long rivalry between the Akure and Isolo quarters, both in Akure metropolis in Ondo State,  reverberated yesterday as their  youths engaged themselves in a bloody clash over the closure of shops as final  respect to the late paramount  ruler of Akureland, Oba Adebiyi Adesida, who died on Sunday. […]

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, working in league with elements in the presidency has commenced moves to remove five governors who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, it emerged last night.

Succor may have come the way of residents of Makoko and Iwaya areas of Yaba Local Government in Lagos State, following the arrest of eight persons that took part in a prolonged bloody crisis between street urchins battling for supremacy in the area, early this year. The crisis culminated in the killing of over 10 persons while several others sustained severe injuries.

Baring any positive improvements, telecom operators in Nigeria may head into a collision course with their regulator, the Nigerian communications Commission, NCC, early next year.