South Africa on Wednesday defeated Angola 2-0 in a Group A second round game of the Africa Cup of Nations.

OLATUNJI Lawal has emerged as the 2013 men’s singles champion of the Union Bank Annual Table Tennis competition organised by the Lagos Country Club at the weekend.

Hajiya Jummai Hassan, a nutritionist with the Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, has said that wheat bread had high fibre content and was good for adults and children.

Abuja – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday condemned the last Saturday’s attack on the convoy of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, describing the emir as ‘highly cosmopolitan’. Addressing State House correspondents on the outcome of the weekly FEC meeting which was presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo, the Minister of […]

As 17,000 households in Jigawa state gets free fabricated stoves in 2012, the state ministry of Women Affairs, says plans are underway to distribute more free stoves to thousands of households in the state in 2013.

The Police on Wednesday arraigned one Adewale Adebayo, 32, before an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court for attempted suicide.

THE founder and general overseer of Truth Ground Prophetic Ministry International Inc., Ogbe Layout, Effurun, Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Pastor Thomas Emmanuel Joshua, has been arraigned in court for allegedly setting ablaze a store in the Ebrumede Police Barracks, Effurun.

No less than seventy four students of Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, have been expelled by the institution over examination malpractices.

The Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) has confirmed another vandalism of the System 2B pipeline at the notorious Arepo village in Ogun State.

Roger Federer passed a five-set test from Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Wednesday to set up an Australian Open semi-final with Andy Murray, as Serena Williams was shocked by teenager Sloane Stephens.

President Goodluck Jonathan has reiterated that Nigeria’s involvement in the crisis in Mali was not borne out of any territorial ambition but to secure her citizens from terrorism and stop terrorists from establishing bases in West Africa.

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has expressed the hope that the promise by Police Affairs Minister Caleb Olubolade, that the government will restructure and refurbish police training institutions across the country, is not a hoax designed only to douse the nationwide anger generated by the Channels TV expose on the rundown Police College in Ikeja.

Maiduguri – The Borno Police Command on Tuesday confirmed that gunmen killed 18 local hunters in Damboa, headquarters of Damboa Local Government Area of the state. Mr Gideon Jibrin, the spokesman of the command, said in a text message to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, that he got news of the incident. […]

THE Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has faulted Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State over his directive to his commissioners and senior civil servants not to speak to the press on matters of governance in the State.