Statoil and Tullow Oil are completing a test well that could lead to the first commercial discovery of oil in Mozambique.
The partners are hoping to extract 200 million barrels of oil from the offshore Cachalote well.

Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Sports, Honourable Godfrey Gaiya has absolved the Super Eagles of any blame in the show of shame that Nigeria was subjected to in Windhoek, Namibia when the players refused to board the arranged flight to Rio de Janeiro via South Africa.

Starting line-ups in the Confederations Cup Group B match between Tahiti and Nigeria at Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte.

Nigeria

Vincent Enyeama (capt); Efe Ambrose, Godfrey Oboabona, Kenneth Omeruo, Uwa Echiejile; John Mikel Obi, Fegor Ogude, Sunday Mba; Agmed Musa, Nnamdi Oduamadi, Anthony Ujah

South Africa’s ailing icon Nelson Mandela, who has been in hospital for 10 days suffering a lung infection, is “doing very well”, one of his daughters said on Monday.

“He is doing very well,” Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, South Africa’s ambassador to Argentina, told reporters gathered outside the Pretoria hospital treating the 94-year-old Mandela.

For the country to have its desired road infrastructure that would place the nation among the top 20 nations in the world, Nigeria needs N2.3trillion, says Minister of works, Mike Onolememen.