The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCN) says it plans to form a new body in collaboration with other stakeholders in the sector to address the challenges facing university education.

English Premier League strugglers Newcastle have agreed a deal with Nancy for 20-year-old defender Massadio Haidara, the French top flight outfit said on their website Tuesday.

Alhaji Sani Ndanusa, President of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), on Monday in Abuja, stressed the need to have a Special Intervention Fund for Sports in Nigeria

For months, fans of power couple Tuface Idibia and Annie Macaulay have been tossed back and forth, left and right like a ping-pong ball, over the exact date and venue of the hot celebrities lavish white wedding; rumours, speculations and counter speculations went by, with one story at the thick of it all even claiming Tuface allegedly said there would be no lavish white wedding so as not to hurt his other baby mamas, yet no one was satisfied.

The Presidency on Monday vowed to bring those behind the attack on the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, to book.

A cross section of Football Followers on Monday kicked against the “noticeable bias shown against the Super Eagles’’ by the Angolan referee who handled the team’s first group match with Burkina Faso.

The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku on Monday said that Nigeria’s inability to broadcast live matches from the African Nations Cup was in the interest of sports development in the country. 

Some football fans in Birnin Kebbi have expressed mixed feelings over the Monday match between Super Eagles and Burkina Faso. 

The Management of the Abuja Distribution Company (DISCO) of PHCN on Monday says it has introduced mobile recharge of the Prepayment Metres. 

The Director of the State Security Service (SSS) in Borno, Alhaji Abdullahi Ahmed, has advised members of the Boko Haram sect to drop their violent campaign and embrace dialogue.

Nigeria Monday night, marked their return to Africa Cup of Nations with a fumbling 1-1 draw with Burkina Faso in a Group C match at the Mbombela Stadium

A 27-year-old commercial sex worker, Nkechi Okafor, who was accused of murdering a client, Abiodun Sarumi, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment.

A mild drama played out before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday as alleged cash courier, Abdulrasheed Ibrahim, forced the trial court to defer his sentencing.

GOVERNOR Adams Oshiomole of Edo State, yesterday, in Asaba, Delta State, lamented what he described as the decay in the medical sector, particularly as some personnel allow patients to die due to strikes or absence from duty, noting that his former Private Secretary, Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, might have survived if he was attended to promptly, when he was rushed to hospital after he was shot.

First trimester abortions are just as safe when performed by trained nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives as when conducted by physicians, according to a new six-year study led by University of California, San Francisco, UCSF.