Workers in Nigeria on Thursday joined their counterparts across the world to celebrate this year’s `May Day’, popularly known as the workers’ day.

The Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has invited eight foreign-based players to beef up the national senior women’s team, Super Falcons ahead of the African Women Championship (AWC) qualifiers.

The police in Lagos arrested seven suspected armed robbers between April 24 and April 30.

The Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU) has arrested two suspected internet fraudsters, who allegedly defrauded an American woman of N56 million.

A non-governmental organisation, Advocacy for Peace, has urged the Federal Government to abrogate contract staffing in the public and private sectors.

Kwara State University, Malete, has earmarked N3 million for research work to be undertaken by undergraduate students of the institution in 2014.

Scuffles broke out between police and hundreds of protesters in Turin at one of several rallies against unemployment and austerity in Italy for

Aid operations need urgent funding in north Africa’s Sahel region where five million children face the prospect of acute malnutrition, UN humanitarian agency OCHA said Wednesday.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho was left to rue the performance of the club’s own goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois after their Champions League semi-final elimination by Atletico Madrid.

Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has assured that his administration will not bequeath uncompleted projects to his successor in 2015.

The Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta said that it destroyed nine illegal refineries and impounded a barge laden with suspected stolen crude in multiple raids on oil thieves.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said it is stupefied by the comments credited to PDP National Women Leader Kema Chikwe in which she expressed doubts about the abduction of over 200 school girls from Chibok in Borno State, saying by the comments, Mrs Chikwe has simply crossed the line and plumbed the depths of absurdity and insensitivity.

Even after the AG had taken the reins of power in Ibadan, the Western NCNC still insisted that Zik and Prince Adeleke Adedoyin were to proceed to the central legislature in Lagos. Dr Olorun-Nimbe, who collaborated with the Action Group and disobeyed party directive to step down for Zik earned the wrath of the party and was eventually expelled from the NCNC and soon sank into political oblivion. Adedoyin was prepared to step down for Zik on the condition that Olorun-Nimbe should relinquish the Mayoralty of Lagos to him.

Pandemonium broke out, yesterday, on Ijoko road, Ota in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State when some hoodlums killed three suspected kidnappers and set them ablaze.

AN epileptic man was among robbery suspects paraded at the Oyo State Police Command, Eleyele, Ibadan, yesterday.