Steven Naismith earned Everton a sorely-needed point and denied Manchester City the chance to keep pace with Premier League leaders Chelsea in a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park on Saturday.

BARELY 17 years after late Chief Victor Nnamdi Okafor, alias Ezego 1 (King of Money) of Ihiala, died in a controversial auto crash on his way to his ancestral home in Uzoakwa, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, his kinsmen have continued to decry the decrepit state of infrastructures which Ezego provided in the community.

The Borno Police Command on Saturday confirmed the killing of 20 persons after a suicide bomb attack at the popular Monday Market in Maiduguri.

PDP governorship candidate for Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has promised to develop “an ocean economy” to enhance the economic well-being of the people living in riverine areas of the state.

Real Madrid returned to winning ways with a 3-0 win over Espanyol on Saturday, despite playing most of the second-half with 10 men, to move four points clear at the top of La Liga.

The Federal Government said on Saturday it had released N3 billion for disbursement to victims of 2011 post-election violence in Kaduna state.

Some 7,300 Nigerian refugees had fled from Nigeria to Chad in the past 10 days, Mr Farthan Haq, a United Nation spokes person said on Saturday.

Alhaji Kabiru Marafa, the Senator Representing Zamfara Central, said he had secured employment for 55 graduates from the state at the various Federal Government’s organisations.

More than 200,000 people took to streets in France Saturday to show their solidarity after three days of bloody attacks in which 17 people died at the hands of Islamic extremists, according to a tally of various demonstrations.

Yanaye Grema hid for three days between a wall and his neighbours’ house, as Boko Haram fighters ransacked his hometown of Baga on the shore of Lake Chad in Nigeria’s far northeast. The 38-year-old fisherman already knew the attack was serious: he joined civilian vigilantes to defend the town but their simple weapons were no […]

A crossbow in her hands and covered top-to-toe in a black Islamic headwear and robe that leaves only her eyes visible — that is the image now circulating of France’s most-wanted woman: Hayat Boumeddiene.

French forces were Saturday frantically hunting for the girlfriend of an Islamist gunman as the country mourned 17 dead in three blood-soaked days that shook the nation to its core.

As one political circle goes for another, elected office holders are traversing the length and breadth of the country giving account of their stewardship in the last four years and seeking a fresh mandate from the people. Many will face their constituents not knowing the sort of reaction they will get.

“Jonathan is now bad luck” he bellowed, “he was bad luck to Yaradua, and Yaradua died, bad luck to our oil and our oil poured away and bad luck to our naira and our naira is gone”. And the crowd murmured loudly in approval of the uncanny association. Irrationality begets irrationality.

Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has urged members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party [PDP] to engage in door to door campaign to ensure they garner all the votes in the 2015 general elections.