Jack Wilshere insists Arsenal are desperate to put another dispiriting pre-season behind them and finally end the club’s eight-year trophy drought.

Most Arab leaders tacitly support Egypt’s deadly crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, fearing the group’s growing regional influence since the Arab Spring threatens their own power, analysts say.

The European Union has said top officials from its 28 members will meet Monday to review the crisis in Egypt, where a military crackdown has left hundreds dead.

Babatunde Olusegun a.k.a mode 9 went all emotional on hotfm’s breakfast radio show with TuTu Adeoba and Cheezy Charles on his type of non-commercial rap, he re-affirms that he can never change his type of rap to suit an audience and decries neglect on his type of rap’

WE in the Enugu Peoples Assembly, EPA, are at a loss as to why nothing seems to be happening politically and infrastructurally in the South-East geo-political zone, despite the calibre of Ndigbo in President Goodluck Jonathan’s government.

The police on Thursday arraigned a couple in a Grade 1 Area Court, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, for alleged criminal conspiracy, abandonment, cruelty to a 12-year-old and wrongful restraint.

Libya has accused striking guards who have seized oil export terminals of trying to make shipments for their own profit and threatened military action against any unauthorised vessel that docks.

The Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Olu Abolurin, on Thursday in Lagos warned that accidental discharge was a capital offence.

The people of Jigawa state were thrown into mourning following the death of two prominent politicians, Deputy speaker, State House of Assembly, Honourable Inuwa Sule Udi and former Commissioner of Information, Alhaji Salisu Ibtahim Dandoka.

THE children neither go to school for Western education nor undergo vocational training for skill acquisition neither.

THE once booming business of promoting human rights is on serious retreat in Nigeria. It is appropriate to remember this, as elections and contests for power dominate national discourse. The quest for power cannot be an excuse, not even a reason for rights violations.

An Ibadan Chief Magistrate’s court in Oyo State, yesterday, remanded two men in prison custody for allegedly having unlawful carnal knowledge of a girl.

The long wait is over for football fans in England and Spain as the glitz, glamour and razzmatazz of the Premier League and La Liga return this weekend with champions Manchester United and Barcelona flagging off their campaign against Swansea and Levante respectively.

Former Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David-West, yesterday, in Ibadan, said it was unfair for a government that budgeted N1 billion each, for feeding the President and the Vice President, to say there was no money to fund education.

The Lagos State Police Command has begun investigation into the discovery of a man’s decomposing corpse in his apartment at 9, Ezemegbu Drive, Okota area of Lagos.