Didier Drogba has declared himself the “luckiest man” in the UEFA Champions League after the round of 16 draw paired his Galatasaray A? side with the team he helped win the trophy in 2012.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is broke, cannot pay salaries of staff and services of prosecutors to carry out operational functions, its Secretary, Mr. Emmanuel Aremu, has said.

Attacks by Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria’s restive northeast have killed more than 1,200 people since May, when a state of emergency was declared in the region, the United Nations said Monday.

Andre Villas-Boas has been sacked by Tottenham Hotspur in the wake of Sunday’s humiliating home defeat to Liverpool, the manager departing White Hart Lane after barely 18 months in charge with faith that he was capable of securing Champions League qualification having been eroded within the club’s hierarchy.

No fewer than 1,500 orphans and less privileged in Nigeria at the weekend benefited from Huawei charity project.

Importation of tomatoes from Benin Republic and other neighbouring countries by Nigerians particularly across the Seme border is on the increase following the Boko Haram insurgence in the North- East of the country famous for tomato farming. As a result, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has collected over N5million baggage fees from such imports in just two months.

Journalists were , Monday, assaulted by some officials of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), while they were waiting for the outcome of the Union’s National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting holding at the Federal University of Technology, in Minna.

CHAIRMAN of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega Monday said that the commission needs about N93 billion to conduct a hitch free election in 2015 even as he assured that that the elections would see the country take its rightful place in the global comity of nations.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday placed embargo on award of new contracts in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) until all ongoing projects are completed.

GOVERNOR Jonah Jang of Plateau State’s faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF Monday described the 18- page letter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Goodluck Jonathan as part of the growth process as a nation as well as integral to any democratic society.

Commuters on Ikorodu Road and drivers plying the route have decried the traffic congestion being experienced daily along the Ketu-Ikorodu axis currently undergoing expansion.

The Federal Government has created 130, 000 new jobs under the SURE-P since its inauguration in February 2012.

ALTHOUGH the Delta State Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Hope Eghagha has called on students to return back to classes, the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the State led by Dr. Emmanuel Mordi is insisting that lecturers should still hold on until necessary protocols are concluded.

An Ikeja High Court on Monday dismissed an application by former Managing Director of Bank PHB, Francis Atuche, seeking to quash the N25.7 billion theft charge preferred against him and two others.

A 12-year-old boy was on Monday arraigned before an Abule-Egba Magistrate’s Court in Lagos, for allegedly defiling a three-year-old minor.