Indiscriminate shutting down of filling stations across the country by the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) got a knock from petroleum products consumers under the aegis of Petroleum Consumers Association, when they staged a protest in Ibadan, yesterday, over the sealing of many filling stations in the city, leaving them at the mercy of black marketers at a time scarcity of products is biting hard.

Tragedy struck, yesterday, after mud detached from a hill at Isheri Magodo area of Ojodu Berger, Lagos, landed on two buildings, caving them inside the earth.

Nigeria’s Under-20 women team, the Falconnets face a tough test in their intention to qualify for FIFA Women World Cup in Papua New Guinea as they square up against their South African opponets this afternoon at the Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa.

The Appeal Court sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has dismissed the appeal challenging the victory of Hon. Joseph Iranola Akinlaja representing Ondo East/West Federal Constituency.

The scale of doping corruption and money-laundering within athletics dwarfs the financial scandals engulfing FIFA, according to the author of a new wide-ranging report into track and field backed by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Torch Oritsewenyimi Taire – his friends called him, TOT – was among many things, a man of great sensitivity: an aesthete – not in the mushy, pretentious way of the noveaux riche. A friend of poets and artists; a great lover of beautiful things. He had an eclectic mind. He was a truly renaissance man. I learnt from Torch Taire, more than a university could teach. He was a great repository of the lore of nation. He was friend to powerful men, and he was himself, without doubt, a powerful man. But you would never know it.

A chieftain of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has described the rejection of the payment of N5, 000 to unemployed Nigerians by senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) as a slap and big disappointment to youths.

The Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribéry is suing CNN for $1.5m (£996,965) in damages after the American broadcaster used a picture of the former France international to illustrate a story on cryotherapy, his lawyer said on Friday.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday spoke with the Golden Eaglets and their officials, urging them to strive for victory in the final of the Under-17 FIFA World Cup holding in Chile on Sunday.

Upcoming singing sensation, Seun Akinnuga, simply known as Dimplez, is looking set to change the face of the music landscape of the country, not only by her singing talent but also by her attitude which may get the likes of Tiwa Savage or Seyi Shay going green with envy. Dimplez has just dropped her latest single ‘Kowole’ which means ‘drop the money’ and it is getting everybody talking about the person inside the act, called Dimplez.

No fewer than 500 women and men benefitted from a week-long free healthcare ranging from counseling to diabetes and blood-pressure check organized by the Rotary Club of Victoria Island recently in Lagos.

An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mrs Bolaji Fati staunchly believes that Nigeria can surmount its numerous health challenges if more people voluntarily engage in medical outreaches.

EME DJ, Rotimi Alakija aka Xclusive seems to be afraid of jinxing his newly solemnised marriage by declining to talk about it in public.

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, on Saturday advised corps members to be change agents of the Federal Government in the communities during their service year.

I WILL never forget the day I agreed to have a talk with a friend who was on the verge of ditching her husband for another married man.