The Athletics Federation of Nigeria, AFN, has moved to make participation in the forth-coming African Junior Athletics Championships easier for visiting contingents.

No fewer than 63 people died in 140 road accidents in different parts of Ogun between Jan.1 and Feb. 28.

Blackberry and the Lagos State Innovation Advisory Council have teamed up, and last week signed a Letter of Intent outlining their intention to build a BlackBerry Apps Lab in Lagos.

The President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Fadi Chehadé has unfolded plans to have six new ICANN representatives on the African continent.

The first black smoke emerged from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel roof on Tuesday, signalling that the cardinals meeting in a secret conclave have failed in their first vote to elect a new pope.

Three-time former Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Association, P. O. C. Achebe is dead. The former scribe died last Saturday in Atlanta, USA where he was residing temporarily.

Some women in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State have clashed with men of the Special Task Force (STF) maintaining security in the state injuring six of them in the process. Several of the villagers also sustained injuries in the clash with the soldiers.

However, while the STF is alleging that the women were hostile towards its men, the women have also protested what they called maltreatment and arbitrariness by the soldiers in the course of their duty calling for their withdrawal from their communities.

By Noel Onoja The Progressive Miners Empowerment Association (PMEA) has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to dissolve the newly constituted board of the Solid Mineral Development Fund (SMDF). The board was constituted in February to fast-track development in the mining sector. The association, which could not give a reason for the call also requested for […]

National Beach Soccer team player, Ogbonnaya Okemiri, has expressed confidence that the team would qualify for the 2013 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Tahiti.

AS someone who very well knows that exaggeration diminishes credibility, I give it a wide berth in claiming that the vocal governor of the State of Osun in South West Nigeria, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, is doubtlessly a focused, clear-headed, and innovative political leader.