With a 35-man squad set to hit South Africa on Wednesday, August 14 for an international football friendly against a crack All Stars Club of Johannesburg, officials and members of Goldashe United FC of Port Harcourt have expressed displeasure with their counterparts in Lagos and Abuja for being excluded in the nation-wide all stars league.

MAKURDI—The Nigerian Navy has sanctioned and withdrawn two of its officers (names withheld) from the Able Regulatory and Qualifying Course 02/13 of the Naval Provost and Regulating School in Makurdi, over indiscipline.

DETECTIVES in Ondo State have arrested a farmer in Idanre Local Government Area of the state, Mr Ojo, for allegedly killing his daughter’s lover.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said the administration was commitment to transform every part of the nation through constructions of massive infrastructure and institutional development.

By Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North After nearly two weeks exchange of words with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the former Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Monday surrendered to the operatives of the commission in Abuja. Saraki, who is reported to have turned in himself in himself in the early hours of Monday, […]

Leading telecommunications company, Globacom, has enjoined the Super Eagles to ensure victory over Bafana Bafana of South Africa as they meet in the Mandela Challenge billed for the Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban on Wednesday.

In a recent interactive section with the House of Representatives Committee on Banking and Currency, the Governor of the Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, noted that if the plan to redesign naira notes last year was successful, “it would have made it impossible for counterfeiters to cook”. He further noted that best practice currency management is that “Within a period of 5 – 8 years, you redesign the currency, after which counterfeiters tend to catch up with you”.

SIR, I am writing to you as a bona fide citizen of Nigeria and also as Founder/ National President of Umuada Ndi-Igbo in Diaspora, Inc. (a not for profit women organisation with headquarters in California, USA).

Some passengers were paid to take part in a buzz-generating video which showed Norway’s prime minister undercover as a taxi driver probing voters’ concerns, his party admitted Monday.

Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce won the women’s 100m title at the World Athletics Championships on Monday.

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists has claimed a series of recent deadly attacks on security forces in the northeast, in a video obtained by AFP Monday.

THE constitution of this country has established the prime value of the currency of Nigerian citizenry, and our politics instead of being the cultivation of the appreciation of Nigerian citizenry, has been and continues to be a process of a structured depreciation of the value of citizenry. The dictionary defines citizenry as citizens collectively.

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla has dispelled the rumour in some quarters that there was an agreement between former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu not to contest for the party’s presidential ticket, saying that there was no deliberation of anybody’s ambition during the merger talks.

The nominees for the third annual African ‘Oscars’ organised by Nollywood and African Film Critics, USA Washington DC has been released with Omotola Jolade Ekeinde, Genevieve Nnaji, Monilsa Chinda and Uche Jumbo Rodriguez among A-rated Nigerian actresses nominated in various categories of the awards.

The Kano University of Technology Alumni Association has declared that industrial action always embarked by the university lecturers was no longer fashionable in Nigeria.