An upbeat Local Black Stars Coach, Maxwell Konadu last night said that Nigeria have come to the end of their fairytale run at the African Nations Championship holding in South Africa.

ABIA State government has lashed out at the former governor of the state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, over his attack on it, describing his action as irresponsible.

The death toll arising from the two separate attacks on a Church in Chakawa village, Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State and Kawuri village in Konduga, in Borno State has now risen to 138.

Governors Babatunde Fashola and Adams Oshiomhole of Lagos and Edo states respectively have been enlisted to wade into the crisis rocking the Ogun state branch of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

BEYOND the media image I know pretty little about the late Ghanaian-born BBC presenter, Komla Dumor.

THE House of Representatives, yesterday, directed its committees on Police Affairs and Human Rights to probe the arrest of 320 persons alleged to be members of the Boko Haram sect by Rivers State Police Command, last Sunday.

The threat by the All Progressives Congress, APC to shut down the Federal Government got underway, yesterday, as the House of Representatives deferred debate on the 2014 budget proposals of the Federal Government. Besides, APC members in a show of muscle, also shut out their Peoples Democratic Party, PDP colleagues from having a say in motions presented on the floor of the House yesterday.

Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has called for increased bilateral ties between Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire especially in the economic sector as both countries are strategic partners and pillars of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS.

The League Management Company (LMC) said it would dissatisfy clubs over default in the payment of the agreed N150, 000 minimum wage for Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) players.

The people of Ile-Ife, in Osun State have faulted the proposal for creation of additional Local Government Areas by Governor Rauf Aregbesola now before the state House of Assembly, saying that the approach adopted by the government lacked international application.

Enyimba International FC of Aba on Tuesday won the 2013/2014 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) pre-season football tournament.

THE theme of the 1993 United Nations world conference on human rights in Vienna was Women’s Rights Are Human Rights. I was with the Civil Liberties Organisation then and attended the conference.

ARABS would not forget Ariel Sharon soon. The Israeli soldier, politician and statesman, who his compatriots loved and hate, in proportional measures, was to some a hero, while Palestinians call him a murderer.

Nigeria will earn about N104 billion from the export of cocoa this year as the output of the product is set to rise by 10 per cent.

Apparently reacting to recent statements credited to Senators Bukola Saraki and Bindo Jibrilla that 17 senators elected under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, would defect to the All Progressives Congress, APC, this week, the Senate, yesterday, said it would not accept joint defection of members.