Manchester United will hope there are no lingering ill-effects from their recent Premier League setback at Tottenham Hotspur when they host Fulham in the FA Cup fourth round on Saturday.

The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has restated the call on the media to redirect national attention and its resources toward development.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has once again rejected speculation linking Mario Balotelli with AC Milan and admits he is struggling to add to his squad ahead of next week’s transfer deadline.

The Police on Thursday arrested four suspected vandals in Arepo estate of Ogun in connection with the NNPC pipeline explosion on Wednesday.

Manchester United have struck a deal with Crystal Palace for the London club’s highly-rated winger Wilfried Zaha to join them in July.

Islamist fighters have dynamited a strategic bridge near the Niger border on the road to Gao, one of the main towns in northern Mali occupied by extremists, sources said Friday.

Alhaji Saidu Buhari, the Chief Imam of Jundulahi Central Mosque in Osogbo, on Thursday urged Muslims to continue to pray for the country’s peaceful existence, security and prosperity.

As Nigeria and Zambia go to war today in their second Group C match inside the Mhobela Stadium in Nelspruit, South Africa, the good news is that every team in that Group has equal opportunity to qualify from the group having played a match each with one point and a goal.

CONGRESS for Progressive Change, CPC, has lampooned the Special Assistant on Public Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Doyin Okupe over his recent comment on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s position on the attack of the Emir of Kano, describing it as an affront on personal liberty.

KANO—Northern leaders including Vice President, Namadi Sambo and three former Heads of State, Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar were conspicuously absent at the peace summit organised by Northern Development Focus Initiative, NDFI, in Kano.

THE reaction of the Kano State Government – ban on commercial motorcycle riders – after the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero punishes the innocent as well as the possible attackers. The wonder is why government would lump the innocent with the guilty.

There are three major qualities midfielders should possess. Coaches look out for these in them.

ENUGU—Igbo leaders and elders would hold a crucial meeting in Awka, Anambra State, today to deliberate on the controversy that trailed the January 12, 2013 election of the National Executive Committee of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and other issues of common interest to Ndigbo.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Muhammad Murtala, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to summon police chiefs from 1999 till date to explain the rot in police formations across the country with a view to ensuring that those responsible for the sorry state of the Police Force are brought to book.

As Nigeria and Zambia go to war today in their second Group C match inside the Mhobela Stadium in Nelspruit, Chipolopolo coach, Herve Renard says it’s not yet over for the defending champions, who he said must bounce back with a win over the Eagles