Burkina Faso won a drawing of lots with Sudan in Brazzaville Monday to qualify for an All-Africa Games football tournament semi-final against Group B winners Nigeria.

Nigeria are to play two friendly matches against Cameroon and Congo next month in Belgium, the president of the country’s football association said on Monday.

The Sultanate Council has declared Tuesday, Sept. 15 as the first day of the Muslim month of Dhul-Hajj.

Nigerians Kelechi Iheanacho and Odion Ighalo scored match-winning English Premier League goals for Manchester City and Watford at the weekend.

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday said that inflation rate edged higher to 9.3 per cent in August, compared to the 9.2 per cent rate in July.
This is contained in August 2015 Consumer Price Index (CPI) issued from the NBS in Abuja.

The President, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations(NIPR), Mr Rotimi Oladele, on Monday urged Nigerians to support President Muhammadu Buhari to reposition the country, rather than casting aspersions on him.

Nigeria received what appears to be a tougher task than South Africa when the 2016 Olympic Games African qualifying tournament draw was made in Cairo Monday.

PARTY is supreme! Party is supreme!! Party is supreme!!!” chanted the Loyalists (as the group of pro-All Progressives Congress, APC, leadership in the House of Representatives branded themselves) in a deafening frenzy on the day they turned the House chambers into a boxing ring last June to disrupt possible announcement of the Principal Officers of the APC (Majority Party) by the Speaker, Hon. Yakubu Dogara.

Police officers in governor Umaru Tanko Almakura of Nasarawa state convoy brutalized a woman and her relatives and damaged their property right before her eyes but the governor has denied the report saying it not true.

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has ‎pledged to shorten the repayment period of the bailout funds approved for the state by the Federal Government.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni As members of the Lagos State House of Assembly resumes today after three weeks of recess, there are strong indications that the state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode may present to the assembly, a bill for the re-ordering of N489.69 billion, 2015 Appropriation Budget. The reordering, according to informed source that preferred anonymity, […]

NIGERIA as the saying goes is a mere geographical expression. The task to turn that expression into a Nation has been seemingly lost and appears totally unrealisable. The last general elections proved this completely. Political parties were proven to be nothing better than paper tigers. When the shove came to shove, States that have supported a particular political party for 16 years dumped the party on the quick sand of tribal loyalty by as much as 97%. That to me was the end of party politics in Nigeria and the triumph of tribal loyalty.

AS the senate probes into the management of funds appropriated to the power sector from the Olusegun Obasanjo civilian administration to date, there were revelations weekend of alleged diverting of the sum of N3.5bn meant for the payment of participants of the scheme by the Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Power, Dr. Godknows Igali.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, yesterday said the authority will henceforth register aviation fuel marketers.
This is coming just as the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Capt. Muhtar Usman signed the modalities and prerequisites for the registration.

THERE was pandemonium on Sunday night at Ekuigbo, Ughelli in Ughelli Local Government Area of Delta State as a result of a shootout by suspected members of two rival cult gangs leading to the death of two gang members from both sides.