Following the introduction of special education incentive for every goal scored at the just concluded National Championship of the Airtel Rising Stars Under-17 Football National Competition by leading telecommunications operator, Airtel Nigeria, twelve primary schools in local communities across the six geo-political zones of the country have been chosen as beneficiaries of the initiative.

The Kano State Taekwondo Coach, Ibrahim Yahuza, on Friday said that his team would emerge the winner of the National Youth Games scheduled for Dec. 5 to Dec. 15 in Abuja.

Olawale Edun, promoter of the monthly “Saturday Boxing Show’’, is impressed by the invitation of four boxers from Lagos State to the National Boxing Federation (NBF) national camp.

The Federal Government on Friday inaugurated a 13-man committee to organise the 2013 Oil and Gas, Trade and Investment Forum.

No fewer than 70 landlords have been arrested in the last two months for defaulting in providing toilets facilities in their houses in Ekiti.

Disunity within the Labor government helped conservative leader Tony Abbott rise to power in Saturday’s Australian elections, politicians and analysts said, with infighting and switching of leaders alienating voters.

Australia’s first female prime minister, Julia Gillard, quietly exited politics Saturday, congratulating the woman who took over her constituency as Labor conceded defeat in national elections.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) in Calabar on Saturday said it arrested two Camerounian women child trafficker’s suspect with a five-day-old baby.

President Barack Obama on Saturday warned US lawmakers against turning “a blind eye” to Syria, as Washington sought to muster European Union support for military strikes against the Damascus regime.

Devices and services company, Microsoft has partnered with Kagiso Media to officially unveil the MSN Nigeria portal in Lagos.

At least 18 people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu Saturday when two blasts ripped through a busy parking lot next to a restaurant, police said.

A former Deputy National Chairman, PDP-South, Olabode George, has urged members of the party to drop their grievances and unite in the interest of the party and the nation.

The  Bayelsa State Police Command has arrested a 36-year-old man for allegedly raping an 18-year-old woman to death in Otuoke Community in Bayelsa.

Ahead of today’s World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles Nigeria and the Flames of Malawi at the U J Esuene Stadium, Calabar, Cross River state, Nigeria’s coach Stephen Keshi and his Malawian counterpart, Tom Saintfeit  will take their fight to the pitch.

THERE was pandemonium in the riverside Bomadi community, Bomad Local Government Area, Delta State, during the week, when a green-eyed young man evidently stabbed his girlfriend to death with a broken bottle.