Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday confirmed that their striker Emmanuel Adebayor will join up with the Togo squad for the Africa Cup of Nations starting in South Africa next week.

The first meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in 2013 held Wednesday and approved additional three new federal universities to be sited in Gashua (Yobe); Birnin Kebbi (Kebbi) and Gusau (Zamfara).

Four students of mass communication have emerged beneficiaries of this year’s Simeon Erimiakhena Olaghere Memorial Foundation Scholarship award.

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan maid on Wednesday after she was convicted of murdering her employer’s baby, the interior ministry announced, despite calls for a stay of execution

The palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi has been gutted by fire. The inferno razed down about 21 rooms of the ancient palace.

Two British men are believed to have made millions of euros in just over a year by smuggling Chinese garlic from Norway into Sweden, a prosecutor in Gothenburg said Wednesday.

As the National Summit on Security Challenges jointly organised by Vanguard Media and the Nigeria Police entered the second day, some participants at the summit have blamed the incessant violent crises in Nigeria on the leaders of the two major religions in the country.

A fire explosion on board a ship servicing MRS Oil and Gas Tank Farm at the Tin-Can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos occurred on Wednesday, disrupting major operations at the depot.

FORMER State Security Service, SSS chief and security consultant, Barr. Mike Ejiofor, saw the summit as a good development which would help policing in Nigeria because it provided a platform where different people came with different presentations for Nigeria to have a secured country. While urging other security agencies to key into the initiative, Ejiofor hoped that the forum would lead to transformation of the country via police force.

There are no plans by the governors of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) to remove the party’s National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, as speculated in some quarters, an official said.