Last 10 winners of the Ballon d’Or ahead of Monday’s gala in Zurich to announce the winner for 2014

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over the safety of its National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun, and his family after his residence in Abuja was raided in the early hours of Monday by yet unknown invaders.

The above extract from the lyrics of the 1966 hit song “When a man loves a woman” written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright aptly sums up the kind of power a woman often wields over a man. “What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman’s mind?” pondered Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, in the classic novel Don Quixote. Call it love or obsession, it’s all about power and control. Who has the power and who is in control? Will there ever be peace on earth except there is peace between man and woman? Man is destined to rule, but the balance of power is constantly under negotiation.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Monday, condemned the killing of children, women and the elderly in Baga town in Borno.

Goods worth millions of Naira were on Monday destroyed at the popular Balogun Market on the Lagos Island.

Indonesian divers Monday retrieved the flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane that went down in the Java Sea with 162 people on board, a potential breakthrough in efforts to discover what caused the crash.

There was a fire outbreak, Monday morning at the popular Balogun market in Lagos.

Gboza Gbosa Technology Limited has announced the launch of SpeaksForUs which provides social campaigners with the ability to raise funds for their cause using targeted crowdsourced ecommerce.

The federal government saved about N500 billion in unutilized funds last year through the implementation of the Single Treasury Account (TSA).

Stakeholders in the agricultural sector have expressed optimism of increased focus on the sector in 2015, and increased productivity in view of the sharp decline in crude oil price and its impact on the nation’s revenue, as well as the expected impact of the agricultural transformation agenda being implemented by the government.

IN a manner suggestive of the new realities around the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Gen Mohammadu Buhari ,rtd, he has been described as a captive of his new political associates.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, traded words with the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Candidate, Major-General Muhammadu (rtd) over the burning of his campaign vehicles in Jos, Plateau State.

BENIN—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, weekend, commissioned the newly reconstructed 11 blocks of 33 classrooms and staff offices at Payne Primary School in Benin City and the Amedokhian- Ugboha Road traversing two local government areas in Edo Central, Edo State.

MAIDUGURI — Over 20 people were killed at Kasuwar Jagwal GSM market in the commercial capital of Potiskum, Yobe State, yesterday, when two female suicide bombers, one of them aged about 15, blew themselves up in the crowded market.

FEW months after the demise of the oldest preacher in Nigeria, Pa Akinbode Sadela, another televangelist and spiritual leader and founder of the Cherubim and Seraphim Movement Church Ayo ni o, Gabriel Olubunmi Fakeye, popularly called G.O. Fakeye has died.