Cameroon football chiefs said they are determined to root out the seven players they termed as ‘bad apples’ implicated in an alleged matchfixing scandal over their World Cup group game with Croatia.

Algeria and Nigeria headed home Tuesday after another five-prong African World Cup challenge came to a disappointing end in Brazil.

A Singaporean businessman was found guilty of corruption Tuesday after a judge ruled that he offered three Lebanese referees free services of prostitutes in return for rigging future matches.

ON the political chessboard, moves and counter-moves are sometimes so furious in pace as to confound bystanders and interested democratic watchers. The unpredictably turbulent political space in Edo State presents even more complicated and sphinx-like scenario.

A cross-section of football fans in Abuja on Monday expressed disappointment with the Super Eagles over their loss to France at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Some of the top Super Eagles’ players who took part in the 0-2 loss to the French national team, Les Bleus, said they plan to give chance to younger ones in the Super Eagles.

Nigeria’s Second Republic Minister of Transport, Alhaji Umaru Dikko has died this morning in the United Kingdom.

A huge explosion in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday killed at least 15 people, an AFP photographer said, in the latest blast to hit the city repeatedly attacked by Boko Haram Islamists.

THE above statements came from an exchange between two users on a social network medium to express their opinions on the outcome of the Ekiti governorship election, which Ayodele Peter Fayose of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, emphatically won. As inappropriate as their language may sound, nobody can capture what has just happened in Ekiti State any better.

Nigeria’s Damilola Apotieri, Monday, became the first Nigerian to study and graduate in the field of Applied Drama at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.