Amkar Perm midfielder Fegor Ogude has disclosed that he beat down the price asked by abductors and paid only 1.3 million naira as ransom for the release of his wife from kidnappers.

As concerns grow among his party leaders and supporters for his release from week-long detention, the embattled spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, reportedly ran into a fresh trouble with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for tearing his voluntary statement to the commission.

Sports minister, Solomon Dalung, has blamed the under development of Nigeria football on corruption, even as he insisted that exposing corrupt practices in Nigeria won’t stop foreign investors.

THERE are strong indications that the new Nigeria league season will kick off on February 21 after clubs kicked against a January 31 start.

WHEN Gloria Ileka, a mother of three, discussed with Paul, her husband, about adopting a suitable family planning method, he rejected the idea outright.

Paul’s argument was on the basis that family planning commodities are known to have undesirable side effects, especially for the woman.
Although he explained readiness to father more children, Paul, however, said that any form of family planning was ruled out.

Nigeria U20s, the Flying Eagles, will not be one of the teams to be rewarded by President Muhammadu Buhari on January 21 even after they won a seventh African Youth Championship last March.

WHEN at first Sambo Dasuki, a former National Security Adviser in the Goodluck Jonathan Administration was slammed with a cocktail of charges including money laundering, illegal possession of arms and misappropriation of funds meant for the procurement of arms for the Nigerian military, not many could have imagined the matter would extend beyond him.

THE DELTA monarch, Obi Akaeze Ofulue 111 of Ubulu-Uku, in Aniocha South Local Government Area, Delta State, has already spent seven days in abductors’ den in the forest.

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State has directed that all government accounts be closed as the state gets set to introduce the Treasury Single Account, TSA.

IT was agreed that the statement would be typed and Dipcharima would sign it on our behalf. We were then asked to return home and await further instructions. I only got to break my Ramadan fast around 9.30pm”.