David de Gea’s cruel 82nd-minute own goal condemned Louis van Gaal’s Manchester United to a 2-1 defeat at struggling Sunderland on Saturday that compromised their hopes of Champions League.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to sanction state governors who failed to conduct local government elections at the appropriate time. Former Leader of Senate, Victor Ndoma-Egba, gave the advice in an interview with journalists in Calabar on Friday. He said the failure of any governor to conduct council polls when due was a constitutional breach that should attract appropriate sanctions.

The National Orientation Agency (NOA), said on Saturday that it had concluded arrangements to honour on Feb.14,Valentine’s Day, soldiers fighting insurgency in the North East.

Mr Idris Miliki, Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution (CHRCR), a Kogi-based NGO, on Saturday urged Gov. Yahaya Bello to probe the immediate past administration in the state.

Some security experts and lawyers in Lagos on Saturday commended the Nigeria Police for the proposed adoption of stun guns to reduce casualties from misuse of firearms by its men.

The world has plunged into a “new Cold War”, the Russian premier said Saturday, as East-West tensions over Syria and Ukraine dominated a gathering of world leaders in Germany.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Saturday- said that only the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) was being investigated in the aviation sector.

In spite of the pedestrian bridge at the Ile-Epo market axis on the Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway, residents of Oke-Odo have continued to risk their lives by dashing across the road.

About fifteen persons were killed by suspected cultists in Omoku, headquarters of Ogba Egbema Ndoni local government area on Friday night.

In a bid to foster relationship and retain brand visibility on the platform, representatives of Facebook, leading social media platform last week visited Nigerian personal style and beauty brand, Natures Gentle Touch, manufactured by Recare Limited to recognize its 1.4 million fan base and enhance customer efficiency.

Police in Kogi on Friday shot and killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued three kidnap victims at a border area between Kogi and Edo.

Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Friday suspended the Commissioner for Finance and Accountant General of the State.

Men of the Osun Police Command on Friday killed two suspected armed robbers in Ikirun area of the state, while robbing a new generation bank in the town.

Rescuers have found the bodies of more than 100 people killed after an appartment block in Taiwan collapsed during an earthquake one week ago, emergency services said on Saturday.

The Supreme Court, yesterday, gave reasons it reversed the concurrent judgments of both the Court of Appeal and the Rivers State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal, which nullified the election of Governor Nyesom Wike.