African champions Nigeria have imposed a World Cup code of conduct on their players in a bid to halt the tantrums that saw them crash out of their last two finals in the first round.

LAGOS (AFP) – Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi, making his debut at the World Cup finals, will be crucial in determining how far Nigeria go in Brazil. According to former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia, Mikel and forwards Victor Moses and Emmanuel Emenike will be the central players for the African champions. “Mikel will be key […]

Stephen Keshi has earned the right to be considered an icon of Nigerian football after captaining and coaching the country to Africa Cup of Nations titles.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said it was a mistake to choose Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup in the summertime, adding that it must be held in the winter instead.

Four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi has agreed terms on a new contract with Spanish giants Barcelona, the club confirmed on Friday, likely making him the best paid player in the world.

Ten people were killed and over 70 wounded Friday in two bomb attacks in a busy market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the latest in a wave of unrest blamed on Islamist militants.

France said on Friday that comments by FIFA president Sepp Blatter that French pressure contributed to the controversial award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar were ‘unfounded’.

The Muslim Council of Britain has offered to mediate in the Boko Haram insurgency in the light of the “Bring Back our Girls’’ global campaign

A hairdresser, Mrs Suzy Adeleke, on Friday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her six-year-old marriage over alleged sexual weakness by her husband.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Friday in Abuja called on the Federal Government to impose sanctions on parents who failed to send their children to school.

Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone has said Diego Costa will definitely start his side’s La Liga title decider away to Barcelona on Saturday after overcoming a hamstring injury.

It was a matter of time before the cookies crumbled. The political tsunami threatening the fledging assemblage of men and women of disparate and indeterminate character under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State is not strange to watchful political observers and actors.

“If, as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, he is afraid to visit Chibok because of security fears, he is simply telling the hapless people in the northeast that he cannot protect them and they should resign themselves to their fate,” said Debo Adeniran, of the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders pressure group

AS the British are preparing to have a general election anytime soon, Labour Party leader, Ed Miliband, has just published a simple but comprehensive contract with his people.

OLIVER IFEDI, wrote Manchester, England.

The much awaited official visit by President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok Local Government Area of Borno state slated for today (Friday) has be pastponed indefinitely.