The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has invited 50 athletes to camp for Congo 2015 All Africa Games.

The urban giants will go head to head at MAMA 2015, which is sponsored by KwaZulu-Natal in association with Absolut Vodka and in partnership with The City of Durban. The winner, chosen by music fans voting online at http://mama.mtv.com, will be revealed at the live awards ceremony on Saturday 18 July at the Durban International Convention Centre, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Popular music video director and film maker, Kemi Adetiba battled with fibroid and came out successful after her surgery.

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Floyd Mayweather was Monday stripped by the World Boxing Organization of the welterweight world title he won by beating Manny Pacquiao two months ago in what was dubbed “the fight of the century”.

A survey conducted by online vehicle marketplace, Carmudi.com has shown that Nigeria remains the only country in Africa with the cheapest price of petrol at $0.46, about N92 per litre or 5.6 per cent of the national average income per day.

France said on Tuesday its special forces in Mali killed an Al-Qaeda commander who had been released from prison in a swap for a French hostage. The army said Ali Ag Wadossene, one of the “operational leaders” of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), died on Sunday in the northeastern town of Kidal, while two other “terrorists” were captured.

The EFCC’s lead counsel in the alleged CBN currency scan, Mr Rotimi Jacobs, on Tuesday said the defence counsel was scuttling further trial of the accused persons. Jacobs made the remark while addressing journalists after further hearing was grounded due to the inability of the defence counsel to serve process. He said it was a situation in which the defence counsel, whose clients were refused bail, had a dirty gameplan to ensure that the applications slated for the day were not heard. “Their gameplan is to scuttle further trial of the case and they have successfully done that.

Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived a barrage from big-hitting Kevin Anderson to reach his seventh successive Wimbledon quarter-final on Tuesday.

“He was so promising, so full of dreams that it breaks my heart to see him so degenerated and entirely disconnected today,” he lamented. Charlie Boy said that empathy would help someone better understand the present condition of the ‘rain maker’. “Looking at him now, I say to myself, it could have been me or any of us. “Some people are not so lucky to imbibe self discipline for things that are destructive to them, however, that doesn’t necessarily make those of us better human beings for being able to.

“The issue is not that there is not enough money, the issue is the lack of commitment from the world leaders to invest in education,’’ Malala said. The young Pakistani education activist told delegates from 40 countries at an education summit in the Norwegian capital Oslo. The visit to Oslo was the 17-year-old’s first since December when she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

GOVERNORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday cautioned the Inspector- General of Police, IGP Solomon Arase against over heating the polity over plans to arrest and investigate the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu on alleged alliteration of the Senate Rules.

1980 Africa Cup of Nations winner, Segun Odegbami has kicked against the hiring of a foreign coach for the Super Eagles following the dismissal of Stephen Keshi.

THE Nigeria Weightlifting Federation (NWF) has started preparations that will see it poach gold medals at the forthcoming All Africa Games in Congo Brazzaville in September by calling to camp 30 weight lifters and announcing the appointment of coach Andrew Ekanem as the National coach of the federation.

A huge crowd of residents of Osogbo, the Osun state capital on Tuesday gathered to condemn what they described as unfair stigmatisation of the Governor of the state, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola over issues of unpaid salaries.

Vanguard learnt that the police advised her to lure the suspects who were calling and threatening her by telling them that she was coming to see them again after school the next day. Unknown to them that it was a trap and that her parents had notified the police, they bought the idea.