Nigeria Monday night, marked their return to Africa Cup of Nations with a fumbling 1-1 draw with Burkina Faso in a Group C match at the Mbombela Stadium

A 27-year-old commercial sex worker, Nkechi Okafor, who was accused of murdering a client, Abiodun Sarumi, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment.

A mild drama played out before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday as alleged cash courier, Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, forced the trial court to defer his sentencing.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomole of Edo State, yesterday, in Asaba, Delta State, lamented what he described as the decay in the medical sector, particularly as some personnel allow patients to die due to strikes or absence from duty, noting that his former Private Secretary, Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, might have survived if he was attended to promptly, when he was rushed to hospital after he was shot.

First trimester abortions are just as safe when performed by trained nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives as when conducted by physicians, according to a new six-year study led by University of California, San Francisco, UCSF.

LAGOS— ACTIVITES at Lagos Island Local Government and the Governor’s office, Alausa, Ikeja, were paralysed, yesterday, as hundreds of Lagos Island Fashion Dealers Association members, protested over the continued closure of Breadfruit Street by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

EIGHTEEN decomposed bodies evacuated from Ezu River on the border town of Amansea, between Enugu and Anambra states, will today be subjected to autopsy to be jointly carried out by Anambra and Enugu State governments and their police commands.

Justice Peter Kekemeke of an Abuja High Court, yesterday, ruled that the factional national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sadeeq Masalla, has a case to answer over his alleged involvement in forgery of signatures belonging to some members of the National Working Committee, NWC, of the party

…As Lagos plans low-key commemoration
ELEVEN years after the Ikeja Cantonment bomb blasts that led to the death of over 1000 Nigerians with 12000 rendered homeless, victims of the disaster are still awaiting a compensation package promised by the Federal Government.

The winner of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations tournament will bag $1.5million as well as bragging rights until the 2015 tournament.