By Jacob Ajom Baring any unforeseen circumstances, the 2015 Lagos State Federation Cup begins this weekend with the rookies matches holding at Agege Sports Stadium. Draw for the competition held at the SWAN secretariat yesterday and the main competition would be involving 32 clubs. Before the commencement of the competition proper, eight unseeded teams will […]

Security agents were last night working frantically to track the whereabouts of a son of the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Lawal Uwais who was said to have joined the deadly Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

As the highest world-rated players listed for the competition, Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri and Egypt’s Dina Meshref have been seeded the top players in the men and women singles events of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Tour tagged Lagos Open. In the seeding list released by the world table tennis ruling body, ITTF, Quadri who is rated 32 in the world is seeded number while his arch-rival and defending champion, Egypt’s Omar Assar is seeded number two while Assar’s compatriot, Mohammed El-Beiali is number three.

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised to engage more Nigerian youths in his administration if he is re-elected on March 28.

On the test running of Card Readers before the conduct of 2015 elections, the INEC boss said it was meant to erase doubts about the new innovation.
He added that his commission was not envisaging failure in the performance of the machines to be deployed.