Heartbroken Brazil captain David Luiz apologised to the nation on Thursday after suffering a record 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat to Germany.

Ojuelegba has its place in history. Good or bad. Some of you who love moving in the night would attest to the beauty of Ojuelegba. Forget about the confusion that is associated with it. Even Afro beat King, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti respected Ojuelegba so much that he made out time in his album to sing about Ojuelegba with vehicles coming from north, south, east and west without a single traffic officer. Logjam!

Germany tore apart Brazil 7-1 in the first half of the World Cup semi-final in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday.

Tragedy struck at the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on Monday as an undergraduate of the institution was shot in the head by some gunmen.

A 32-year-old man, Ahmed Adediran, has been arraigned before an Ikeja magistrate’s court over alleged assault of one Anaye David, an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA.

Bayelsa State Government has waded into the face-off between Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, and Obunagha community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

Obunagha community is host to the multi-billion naira gas plant owned by Shell.

A Grade 1 Area Court in Aso Pada, Mararaba, Monday, discharged a labourer, Thomas Abu, 29, of Aso Pada, Mararaba who was charged for stealing the sum of N3,000.

The 21-year-old Tolani Ajayi, who killed his father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in the Redemption Camp along Lagos/Ibadan expressway last week, has said that he was provoked by his father.

PDP’s governorship candidate in Osun, Sen. Iyiola Omisore has accepted the challenge to an open debate with Gov. Rauf Aregbesola.

Over 200,000 youths from poor households in Nigeria are to receive life skills training between 2014 and 2017 under the Social Protection and Labour Programme of the World Bank.

The bank made the plan known in its report on: “Nigeria Country Partnership Strategy 2014-2017’,’ released in Abuja yesterday.

The Coordinating General Manager, Public Affairs, Aviation Parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Dati, has said that the debt profile of the Ministry of Aviation on aviation projects was recently clarified through a statement on the ministry’s total indebtedness on aviation projects, paticularly under the Aviation Sector Master Plan.

The Nigerian Bar Associa tion, NBA, has screen and approved 38 candidates to contest the 13 national offices of the association at its delegate conference slated for July 15 in Abuja.

Mirolsav Klose became the World Cup’s all-time top scorer on Tuesday scoring in Germany’s apparent rout of Brazil to take his goal tally in the tournament to 16.

The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has advised Nigerians to cook their foods up to 60 degrees before consumption, to prevent infection.

National telecommunications operator, Globacom, has concluded arrangements to airlift its top dealers to watch the finals of the on-going 2014 World Cup in Brazil.