Stephen Keshi has been re-appointed as coach of African champions Nigeria despite being sacked earlier this month, in the latest twist in a long-running battle for control of the country’s football federation.

Doctors at a hospital in the southern city of Hyderabad have reportedly performed a heart surgery on a foetus in a 25-year-old woman’s womb, local media reported on Friday.

The ousted president of Burkina Faso has left the capital Ouagadougou and fled towards the south of the country, a French diplomatic source said on Friday.

A Minna Magistrates’ Court on Friday ordered the remand in prison custody of a 70-year-old man, Udo Udo, for allegedly raping two girls.

Gov Gabriel Suswan of Benue State on Friday sworn-in Mrs Theresa Shija as a high court judge in the state.

Lagos (Lagos State),Oct. 31, 2014 (NAN) An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded a motorcyclist, Lukman Bakare, 29, at Ikoyi Prison over the murder of Cpl. Joseph Ebosele,35.

Some lawyers in Lagos on Friday faulted the withdrawal of the security aides of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Aminu Tambuwal.

Burkina Faso’s army chief Navere Honore Traore said he was taking power on Friday as head of state after President Blaise Compaore announced his resignation.

AT times of intense politics and politicking like these, what would you, if you were President Jonathan’s adviser, have the President do? Canvass popular support from all and sundry for his reelection bid, or develop a long memory and seek to avenge his alleged failure to install the leadership of the House of Representatives?

THE power of incumbency is a pervading force in Nigeria’s political/electoral system. Its effect is most felt at the executive stratum of government where the President, governor and, at the much lower level, the local government chairman, use their big sticks to achieve their political/electoral ends.