League leaders Enyimba FC of Aba will attempt to consolidate its position on the league table as the team travels to Lafia for the week 34 tie in the 2014/15 Globacom Premier League. Enyimba are scheduled to play Nasarawa United on Oct. 17 at the Lafia Township Stadium. NAN reports that the week 34 games of the league are to be played on Oct. 17 at various match venues.

An angry mob at Ungwan-Rukuba New Road, around the Nasarawo area of Jos, on Wednesday, burnt a 25-year-old man, Mantau Rati Black, for allegedly stabbing one Sati Samola to death.

Lagos – Some politicians in the Lagos area on Thursday expressed mixed reactions to the ongoing screening of ministerial nominees by the Senate. While some praised the exercise as impressive, a few others noted that there was room for improvements. Some others noted that if portfolios had been attached to the names of the nominees; […]

An angry mob at Ungwan-Rukuba New Road, around the Nasarawo area of Jos, on Wednesday, burnt a 25-year-old man, Mantau Rati Black, for allegedly stabbing one Sati Samola to death. An eyewitness told NAN on Thursday that Black was lynched in revenge for the deadly stab he inflicted on Samola. The eyewitness told NAN that Black went after Samola and stabbed him, in anger over his intervention in a fight between Black and his (Black’s) younger sister.

Niger Republic has imposed a state of emergency on the southeastern region of Diffa where 40 people were killed in recent attacks blamed on the insurgent group Boko Haram.