LAGOS (AFP) – Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi is backing Nigeria to become the first African team to win this month’s Confederations Cup in Brazil.

Controversy has continued to trail the list of victims of the ill-fated Dana plane, engraved on the tombstone at the cenotaph located at the Iju-Ishaga site of the crash, Lagos, unveiled on Monday by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

By Kunle KALEJAYE Successful bidders in the ongoing privatisation in the power sector have expressed eagerness to take over operations from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN Distribution Companies (DISCOs) after the successful payment of 25 per cent of their investment. However, the Federal Government through Bureau of Public Enterprises, (BPE) and the Secretariat […]

A combined team of officers of the Directorate of State Service, DSS, and soldiers drawn from 3 Brigade, Nigerian Army, has uncovered more fresh weapons of war at a private residence at 3, Gaya Road off Bompai Road Kano, where cache of deadly weapons linked to Hezbollah, the international terrorist organisation, was busted last week by the security agents.

An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Karu, yesterday, gave the Federal Government the nod to keep in the custody of the Department of State Service, DSS, four Lebanese, Mustapha Reda Darwish Fawaz, Talal Roda, Abdulla Tahini and Hussain Nurudeen Kossdi, who were allegedly involved in illegal importation of weapons into Nigeria,