Acting President of Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Mike Umeh has called on players and officials of the U-20 National Team, Flying Eagles, and the U-20 Women National Team, Falconets, to guard against complacency in important international matches this weekend.

Three persons were feared dead and properties worth millions of naira destroyed in an inferno that consumed a make shift settlement in Oroakpor community- Mgbuosimini, Obio/Akpor Local Government Area.

Ebola remains the most dreaded word in the Nigerian- even West African vocabulary right now, pushing HIV/AIDS, malaria, typhoid and hepatitis B to the background of oblivion

Social and commercial activities were, yesterday, paralized in Ilasamaja area of Lagos following an invasion of Taminowo Street by suspected cultists, which led to the death of a father of three.

A native doctor and nine other suspected criminals have been arrested by police detectives from Ndiegoro division in Aba, Abia State, for alleged murder and robbery cases.

A GOVERNORSHIP aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, in Imo State, Mr. Ken Ojiri, has said that if governance was extended beyond the state capitals, those in the rural areas would have no reason to migrate to the city.

A former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Mahmoud Lai Alabi, was, yesterday, quizzed for many hours over his role in the transfer of the ownership of the bank to Access Bank.

NIGERIAN rapper, Michael Stephens Ugochukwu, aka, Ruggedman, has shown he doesn’t mind being a love-struck wreck for the Kedike crooner, Chidinma as he openly professed his love directly to the petite beauty in a radio programme which had two of them in attendance.

Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union, IEDPU, has called on government to “as a matter of urgent public need, set in motion machinery to recover and mop up small arms and light weapons from the hands of miscreants and block the source of proliferation of these weapons.”

The Enugu State Impeachment Panel, yesterday, ordered that another doctor from the state government-owned hospital should be engaged to evaluate the state of health of the embattled Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, who slumped while giving evidence before the panel on Wednesday.

Nigeria’s first lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan has disclosed that the Agricultural Transformation Agenda of the government is re- repositioning both the marine and the fisheries sectors to boost the economy

Three persons were killed, Wednesday night, at Umuawulu in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State following the invasion of the home of one Chief Azubuike Ekweozor by suspected assassins.

The Bankers Committee, yesterday, said it would help the privatised power firms clear N25 billion debts to gas producing companies.
The Committee had also decided to provide funding support to the 18 rice milling companies across the country so as to boost local production, reduce foreign exchange spent on rice importation and boost job creation.

The Bank of industry (BoI) has assured industrialists in the country funding supports if they purchase equipment fabricated by the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO)

Dangote Cement Plc is warming up to expand its cement production plants beyond the continent of Africa to the Middle East and Latin American countries.
The company is optimistic that the planned investment will propel it to be ranked among the top ten global cement manufacturers and also earn Nigeria foreign exchange.