Cholera has killed eight people in Oyo State and ten others have been hospitalised, health officials said Thursday, in the latest outbreak to hit the state following a heavy rainy season.

The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) says it is partnering with  popular search engine, Google for online activities for the senior national team, the Super Eagle

England manager Roy Hodgson sought to side-step issues about his team’s lack of World Cup pedigree on Thursday as he prepared for two crucial games in their quest to reach the finals in Brazil.

Nigeria took center stage yesterday at the ongoing Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Maputo, Mozambique as a young Nigerian, Mr. Nnaemeka C. Ikegwuonu, founder of the Smallholders Foundation, was named one of the winners of the 2013 YARA prize award.

FURORE over the abortion law in Imo State raises many issues about legislative processes that led to the law. The main grouse of the people, according to reports, was that they were not consulted before the law was passed. How could a law have been passed without a public hearing? Can the State Assembly explain this aberration?

Two of the ‘rebel’ governors in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governors Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano and Babangida Aliyu, yesterday, opened up on the crisis in the party, saying their agitation is ultimately aimed at purifying the party and saving it from self-destruction.

A teenage housewife, Blessing Bisala, is to spend three months behind bars for cheating on her husband.

NO less than seven people lost their lives in a rampaging flood as a result of heavy rainfall in Calabar, Cross River State, Wednesday night.

UNIVERSITY students under the umbrella of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, yesterday, took to the streets in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, calling on the Federal Government to accede to the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

NIGERIANS suffer in many countries, to which they ran to for asylum, during the military reign of terror in the mid-1990s. Many are denied asylum and subsequently face deportation

Jigawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has arrested a 23-year-old woman, Hadiza Shehu, while dropping her new born baby boy in a pit toilet after giving birth to him in the night in Yankoli Quarters, Hadejia Local Government Area of the state.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, told the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court why it would not recognize the Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Uba, as its gubernatorial flagbearer in Anambra State, describing him as an “illegal” candidate.

BENIN CITY—Edo State Government has expressed its readiness to ensure that the stowaway teenager, Daniel Oikhena, achieve his dreams by sponsoring the boy’s education up to university level.

The Director of a construction firm, Chrisbech Nigeria Limited, Mr. Dominic Emeka Okika, has accused officials of Awka North local government area of Anambra State of defrauding him of N1.5 million, which was the balance of an executed N8 million contract.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, as a teenager was burnt to death in a fire that engulfed a building in Ishawo area of Ikorodu, Lagos State.