Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will miss the trip to Stoke City on Saturday but has still promised to take “responsibility” for the Premier League champions when they are at the Britannia Stadium on Saturday.

Football fans in Calabar have called on football administrators to sustain their encouragement of the Golden Eaglets, following the team’s 4-2 victory at the ongoing FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.

One person was shot dead while commercial and other activities were yesterday grounded in Onitsha the commercial city of Anambra state and its environs by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB who were protesting the continued detention of their leader Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

The simple statement of fact from Amos Benjamin, one of Nigeria No1 Akpan Udoh’s deputies at the FIFA U-17 World Cup, sums up the life of substitute goalkeepers at any major tournament.

Thousands of pregnant girls, excluded from mainstream schools and barred from sitting upcoming exams, risk being left behind as Sierra Leone moves forward from the Ebola crisis, Amnesty International said in a report published today.

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, Friday, read the riot act to commercial motorcycle operators popularly called Okada riders, commercial buses and street hawkers, saying that the state government will no longer tolerate their nefarious activities on the streets and highways which has caused untold hardship for the people of the state in recent times.

Anyone whose business or investments are closely related to mining and commodities, the “top” was a long time ago. The authors phrase this diplomatically, noting that “growth is not a focus of the miners or investors today.”

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is calling for civilian “foot soldiers” in the fight against Boko Haram, appealing to traditional hierarchies and centuries-old methods to weed out Islamist plotters.

Freed Australian journalist Peter Greste said Friday that returning to his home inKenya almost two years after he was jailed in Egypt was one of his “happiest moments”

Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Rivers in the last general elections, Dr Dakuku Peterside, has tipped the Golden Eaglets to win the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Chile.

Professor Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written so far. InterInventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie- A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2015, 136pp) is quite close to being just that.

Following intelligence reports available to security agencies showing that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have concluded modalities to embark on a violent protest in parts of the country to drive home their agitation, Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase has advised organizers of the planned violent match to desist from such.

Russia on Friday legalised the seizure of property belonging to foreign governments on its soil in response to its assets abroad being frozen over a dispute with the ex-shareholders of Yukos oil company.

Leadership of the Senate on Friday said that it shut down activities on Thursday in solidarity with its President, Bukola Saraki, because of circumstances surrounding his ongoing assets declaration trial.

Golden Eaglets’ striker Victor Osimhen on Thursday at Concepcion in Chile equaled the long-standing FIFA U-17 World Cup scoring record of nine goals in a tournament. He achieved the feat after his goal in the 4-2 defeat of Mexico at the Estadio Municipal. The record was previously jointly held by Frenchman Florent Sinama Pongolle and […]