Academics and social activities at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, were yesterday paralyzed following a report that one of the students, who had been on admission at the university’s teaching hospital, manifested signs of victim of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.

THE tension generated over whether it is the upland or riverine that should produce the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State heightened yesterday, as the party threatened to sanction a chieftain and member of the Board of Trustees, BoT of the party, for convening a meeting of governorship aspirants of his riverine ethnic group within the party with a view to pruning down the number.

STATESMEN, prominent leaders of the three geo-political zones in the South, under the aegis of Southern Nigeria Peoples Assembly, SNPA, yesterday condemned in very strong terms, the creation of additional polling units by the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, in favour of the North.

South African coach, Ephraim ‘Shakes’ Mashaba has claimed that Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi was aiming to beat the Bafana Bafana in today’s African Nations Cup qualifier, just to prove a point after he was snubbed by South Africa Football Association(SAFA) for their national coaching job.

All Progressives Congress, APC, has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of exhibiting a shocking act of indiscretion by hobnobbing with an alleged Boko Haram sponsor, Ali Modu Sheriff, who is not known to have been investigated and cleared of the weighty allegation against him.

Lawyers of both the peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, yesterday, almost resorted to physical combat and disrupted the planned inspection of election materials used for the August 9 governorship election.

After some shock results in the opening round of group qualifying for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, the likes of defending champions Nigeria and Egypt will be desperate to bounce back today.

It’s no sweet story that while the new world has seen countries where an average 4 year old does communications and major transactions online, over 80 million adult Nigerians are still unbanked. They are not making any formal banking transactions.

The drama in the administration of football in Nigeria continued yesterday with the return of president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Alhaji Aminu Maigari to the secretariat of the football house

The Minister of Sports/Chairman, National Sports Commission, Dr. Tammy Danagogo has urged the Super Eagles to redouble their efforts in order to overcome the South African obstacle as they battle the Bafana Bafana in an Africa Nations Cup qualifier in Cape Town today.