Tragedy struck, Tuesday night, at the Akenfa suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, when a woman, aged 38 and her seven years old daughter were burnt to death by fire, which gutted their home.

It sounds like tales by moonlight that women do the chasing in South Africa. Their men are kings. Most of them don’t work and they rely on their wives to pay rent and feed the family.

Four-time champions Ghana defeated Mali 1-0 Thursday to shoot to the top of Group B at the Africa Cup of Nations. The Black Stars have four points while Mali slipped to second place on three points.

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said PHCN customers who are willing to purchase their own prepaid meters could go ahead and do so.

The decision of the House of Representatives to summon former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih, over road contracts that were awarded during his tenure in office came as a big surprise to many Nigerians.

Already up and running in the 2013 CAF Africa Cup of Nations, Mali owed much of their opening win against Niger to Seydou Keita.

THE issue of ill treatment meted to Nigeria visa applicants by foreign embassies or their proxies has gone on for too long in the country, hence, the need for remedial measures, so that every visa applicant can experience less cumbersome visa processing.

The former minister for education and ex- vice president of the world bank, Dr. Mrs Oby Ezekwesili has disclosed that a total sum of 67 billion dollars in foreign reserve and excess crude accounts were squandered in five years.

Chipolopolo forward, Jacob Mulenga has promised Zambian fans that they were going to make amends for their 1-1 against Ethiopia with a convincing victory over the Super Eagles of Nigeria, who they confront Friday at the Mhombela Stadium in Nelspuit.

Ukraine has sealed a $10 billion (N1.57 trillion) shale gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell that will reduce its dependency on gas supplies from neighbouring Russia.

Former Nigerian international, Paul Okoku has tipped the Super Eagles to record their first victory in tomorrow’s Africa Cup of Nations match with Zambia at the Mhombela Stadium in Neslpruit.

Despite poor attendances, the atmosphere has been electric at almost every one of the eight matches in the opening phase of soccer’s African Nations Cup.

WRITING on the recent series of demolition of illegal shanties at the bridgehead, Onitsha, Emmanuel Obe of the PUNCH Newspaper (Saturday Punch of January 19, 2013, page 14), among other things, stated thus: “Tales of woe and despondency hung in the air as bulldozers deployed by the Anambra State Government roared through all the markets on the River Niger bridgehead end of the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway some days ago”.

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that Nigerians are quite pleased with his government’s efforts at improving power supply in the country.

In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour , Wednesday, President Jonathan said that before the end of the year, power will be stable in Nigeria.

Following its contributions to the nation’s human capital development and efforts to tackle social vices, United Way Nigeria, a non-profit organization has got the US Consulate’s endorsement at its re-launch held recently in Lagos .