Real Madrid fans decked in their team’s meringue white erupted in joy in the Spanish capital Saturday as they snatched their 10th Champions League title in a dramatic come-from-behind 4-1 victory in extra time over local rivals Atletico Madrid.

“There has been an explosion in Jos,” Manzo Ezekiel, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), told AFP but said it was not clear what caused the blast nor if there were casualties.

The Flying Eagles on Saturday beat their visiting Tanzanian counterparts 4-1 in Kaduna to qualify for the third and final round of the 2015 African Youth Championship (AYC) qualifiers.

Nigeria’s senior women football team, the Super Falcons, on Saturday in Gisenyi trounced hosts Rwanda 4-1 in a first leg match in the 2014 African Women Championship (AWC) qualifiers.

The Nigerian city of Maiduguri may be calmer than this time last year but locals in Boko Haram’s spiritual home still feel under siege, afraid to venture beyond the city limits because of the high risk of attack.

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) on Saturday said it would continue to contribute its quota to the development of the nation.

FORMER National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has described the defection of 25 members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to the PDP in Adamawa State as a landmark political development for the party in the state.

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Saturday urged Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar to prevail on past leaders of the country to help curb insurgency rocking the Northern region.

The Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Friday in Abuja won the third African Regional Round Manfred Lach Moot Court Competition.

Their UEFA Champions League final experience could hardly be more different but the coaches of Real Madrid CF and Club Atlético de Madrid are united in the belief that their meeting in Lisbon will be a tactical battle decided by which set of players receives “the right instructions”