Two Nigerian journalists were harassed, brutalised and detained for lack of good reasons by South African police in Johannesburg on Tuesday afternoon.

Celtic midfielder Kris Commons insisted team-mate Efe Ambrose had to accept the blame for his errors in a 3-0 defeat by Juventus that all but ended the Hoops’ Champions League campaign.

The leader of a March coup that ousted Mali’s government, exacerbating a crisis in which Islamist rebels went on to seize over half the country, was sworn in Wednesday as head of a military reform committee.

The Federal Government has uncovered a total of 45,000 ghost workers in federal establishments across the country following the audit staff of the federal government ministries, agencies and Parastatals.

Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL), operator of Oil Mining Lease 133, has secured approval from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to award three engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for Erha North Phase II project.

SOME intending National Youth Service Corps members for batch ‘A’ 2013, have accused officials of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, of extortion before the they could be issued admission letter.

Promasidor Nigeria Limited, makers of Cowbell milk, has flagged off the 2013 edition of the Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC).

Wrestlers around the world on Wednesday vowed to fight to save the ancient sport’s Olympic status, after the International Olympic Committee voted to drop it for the 2020 Games.

An Islamic cleric, Ibrahim Olateju, on Wednesday told an Abeokuta High Court that he was seeking the dissolution of his 10-year-old marriage because his wife, Rukayat, was allegedly a traitor.

Pope Benedict XVI will lose his infallibility — his supreme authority in Church matters — as soon he steps down on February 28, the Vatican said on Wednesday as it struggles to explain a virtually unprecedented situation.