British heavyweight Tyson Fury called out WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko after defeating Romanian Christian Hammer to retain his European title in London.

OWORO is a small community located between Ajaokuta and Lokoja, Kogi State capital. It’s a community that is relatively unknown. Even commuters from the eastern flank of the country who traverse the ever busy Ajaokuta federal road may not notice the name. The only time the community has ever come into reckoning was in December 2012 when the governor of Kogi State, Capt. Idris Wada, was involved in an accident that occurred in the community.

The row over the claim that the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, subscribed to an oath to supplant the party’s vice presidential candidate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, should the APC win the March 28 election raged, yesterday.

The post-National Conference Summit, held last Thursday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, was an assemblage of ‘who is who in the country particularly from the South-west. The attendance cut across religious and political persuasions.

Following the continued push by the military to recapture all territories occupied by Boko Haram fighters, troops on cordon and search, along Djimitillo-Damaturu Road, Yobe State engaged in fierce battle, at the weekend, with fighters suspected to be members of the Islamist group, after their hideout was discovered.

The UN children’s agency said Sunday it fears hundreds of boys were kidnapped last month in the northeast of South Sudan, raising suspicions that the abductors were from a pro-government militia.

Plans by the Federal Government to further truncate the 2015 elections have failed. This was the position of pro-democracy groups who came together, yesterday, at a rally held at Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park, Ojota, Lagos, to say that any attempt by the Jonathan administration to postpone the elections again or use the military in the electoral conduct would be met with stiff fight by them.

Political leaders from the North were said to have reached out to President Goodluck Jonathan in a bid to secure assurances that their preferred candidate would be supported to succeed the President in 2019.

Several thousand people took to the streets of Cameroon’s capital on Saturday to denounce Boko Haram’s bloody insurgency and call for the killing of the group’s leader Abubakar Shekau.

Sierra Leone’s Vice President Sam Sumana has placed himself in quarantine following the Ebola death of one of his guards, a government spokesman said Saturday, as the country reintroduced travel restrictions as the number of new cases rises again.