Two poor Indian teenagers, one the son of a sex worker and the other a street vendor, are among young players chosen to take part in a Manchester United Football Club training camp.

The Speaker, House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, has described as “unfortunate’’ the death of some Nigerians on Saturday at recruitment centres of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).

Malaysia said on Sunday the number of countries involved in efforts to find a missing passenger jet had nearly doubled to 25 as it began a new push to find the plane across a vast arc of land and ocean.

MOVED by the ravaging nature of activities of members of Boko Haram who have engaged in massive killing and wanton destruction of property on daily basis, the government of the United States and some Northern Governors hav concluded arrangements to hold a three- day talk shop on security in Africa and Nigeria in particular.

People in Crimea took to the polls on Sunday for a referendum on breaking away from Ukraine to join Russia that has precipitated a Cold War-style security crisis on Europe’s eastern frontier.

In September 2012, I had a dream. I was somewhere high up in the mountains and did not know exactly what I was doing there. Suddenly, there was so much pomp and circumstance. A lot of security detail poured into the place and there was no room for me to quickly make my way out of there. I was wondering what all the palaver was about when out came President Barack Obama of the United States.

The second phase of the training camp by the Flying Eagles, Nigeria under-20 male football team, will begin in Abuja on Monday, March 17 with 55 players.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State is a leader, who believes that there is no justification for anyone to talk about dismembering Nigeria after we have lived together as a nation for over a century. In this interview, Yuguda, one of the governors honoured last weekend in Ghana for educational development, speaks on contemporary issues, among them, his relationship with his predecessor, Ahmed Mu’azu, who he nominated as the PDP National Chairman and how to check rising terrorism in the North.

The princely amount of N46 million in the dormant bank account of the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, was simply irresistible for the young female banker.

They are no doubt a part of the social infrastructures built for one purpose: to link one point with another. Be it in the air, on the land or across the lagoon, they connect towns and decongest junctions to ensure free flow of traffic. In places with features of urbanity, they are a common sight. Thus, Lagos, Port Harcourt, Abuja, still counting, are some major towns that boast of them. They are bridges.