Barack Obama will welcome Nigeria’s freshly elected president to the White House Monday, lending a personal endorsement after the country’s first ever democratic transition.

FIFA will hold a special election on February 26 to replace president Sepp Blatter, football’s scandal-tainted world body said Monday as French football great Michel Platini moved closer to launching a campaign.

Zenit St Petersburg’s Brazil marksman Hulk on Monday dubbed as “disgraceful” the latest racist incident in Russia and expressed fears racism could raise its ugly head at the World Cup the country will host in 2018.

The Management of Kano Pillars FC on Monday announced the sack of the club’s technical adviser, Okey Emordi, with immediate effect.

The FIFA executive will press for tough checks on new executive members and term limits on top officials, a statement said after a meeting.

Chadian dictator Hissene Habre went on trial Monday in Senegal, a quarter of a century after his bloodsoaked reign came to an end, in a trial seen as a test case for African justice.

The Management of Kano Pillars FC on Monday announced the sack of the club’s technical adviser, Okey Emordi, with immediate effect.

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Sunday urged legal professionals to reform and renovate the law profession in the country to meet international standards.
Osinbajo made the call at the inauguration ceremony of the Ultra Modern Sir Adetokunbo Ademola Dinning Hall of the Law School, Lagos.

Former Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon. Chibudom Nwuche has urged President Mohammadu Buhari to remove oil subsidy, saying that is the only way to tackle corruption.

Pretoria (S/Africa) – Some Nigerians living in South Africa have observed that even though the National U-23 team, also known as the `Dream Team V1’, emerged victorious, they failed to convert from the many scoring chances that came their way. The Nigerians, who watched the Olympic qualifying match on Super Sport television, said nonetheless, that […]

Twenty-seven people were killed on Monday in a “terrorist attack” in the Turkish town of Suruc near the border with Syria, the interior ministry said.

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Monday denied speculations that that his administration was planning to sack 10,000 workers.

Sensational pop twins Peter and Paul Okoye, better known as P-Square, arrived the country from South Africa in the earlier hours of Monday. P square won two awards- Best Group and Artist of the Decade at the 2015 MAMA awards held in Durban

The UN appealed on Monday for $20 million to stem outbreaks of bird flu in West Africa, a region still weakened by the Ebola crisis.

It is exactly a year that Patrick Oliver Sawyer (c.1974 – 24 July 2014), a deceased Liberian-American lawyer introduced the deadly Ebola Virus disease into Nigeria during the West African Ebola epidemic.