Fenerbahce marksman Emma-nuel Emenike has declared that the Group D fixture between Nigeria and one of the favourites for the mundial, Argentina will be be as easy as ABC.

A new report released by the United Nations shows a 45 percent reduction in the global incidence of maternal deaths in the last 25 years as Nigeria and other sub_Saharan countries are said to be the riskiest places for pregnancy and childbirth complications.

Six football academies drawn from Edo, Kwara and Lagos States are participating in the maiden edition of the Super 6 Academy Football Conference tournament which kicked off at the NIS pitch, National Stadium, Lagos.

DELTA State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has, in Asaba, threatened to declare full strike of all industrial unions affiliated to it over alleged continuous assault and harassment of members by armed soldiers and policemen in the fight with the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, labour accused of extortionist tariff without power to Nigerians, among others

EVEN the meeting of world leaders in France at the end of the Second World War WW2, specifically on December 10, 1948, did not have the large number of world leaders in attendance

LAGOS—Lagos State Government, yesterday said the recent poisonous emission that affected the pupils of Ogba Junior Grammar School, Ojodu Local Council Development Area, LCDA was a chemical reaction that affected breathing when inhaled.

A couple, Babatunde and Adedoyin Ogunmefun, is facing trial at an Ikeja magistrate Court for conspiracy, birth certificate forgery and threat to life.

I always have plans to go back home and say thank you to my people in the form of service, because my people are the basis of my success, that I served for thirty five years without much problems and I have good health, my people were always there, my immediate community in Ogwashi-Ukwu, and the local government, they were always there to help and advice to ensure that my service was sincere in the right direction.

Blessing Okagbare has called for the release of 276 students kidnapped from their school in Chibok on April 14.

Former National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, has described the death of Hon. Justice Chukwudifu Akunne Oputa as a great loss to the nation and the Judiciary.

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday inaugurated the Presidential Committee on the Rescue of the Abducted Schoolgirls from Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.

BUSINESSTODAY Online, a Nigerian business news website has released the names of nominees for the 2013 Nigerian Insurance Businesstoday award.

LAGOS—THE United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy, UNDEDSS, yesterday in Lagos, faulted the United States warning of terror strikes in Nigeria, saying it did not conform to responsible dissemination of information?.

Custodian & Allied Plc has announced profit before tax of N1.3billion for the unaudited first quarter results ended 31 March 2014. This indicates an increase of 78.5 per cent over the N746.9 million recorded in the corresponding period of 2013.

LAGOS—Lagos State House of Assembly, yesterday approved the introduction of electronic tolling of Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, saying the passage of this resolution would serve as legal backing and appropriate maintenance of the Bridge.