Atletico Madrid ousted holders Barcelona from the Champions League at the quarter-final stage on Wednesday while Bayern Munich also advanced to the semi-finals by eliminating Benfica.

A member of Bring Back Our Girls movement in Lagos, on April 13, 2016, during a rally for the release of missing girls

Club Atletico de Madrid has beaten FC Barcelona 2 – 0 in the Champions League quarter-final second leg football match at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid.

Nigeria International Alex Iwobi has described the reception he got from the fans in Nigeria following the Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers as “crazy”. The 19-year-old forward took game we unfortunately lost and went out of the Africa Cup of Nations, but that moment was crazy and a great feeling,” he added.

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, said on Wednesday he was yet to receive any court order nullifying Amaju Pinnick’s Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) presidency.

Ex-Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday told the State Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja that he won the 2015 governorship election in the state.

The Chief Press Secretary to the Kogi State Governor, Kingsley Fanwo, has accused opponents of the Governor of lacking in direction in their attempts at slowing down the pace of change in the state.

The presidency Wednesday night lambasted the a staff writer of The Telegraph, United Kingdom, Mr. Con Coughlin over reports he authored that president Mohammadu Buhari was fighting his political opponents with foreign financial aids meant to fight insurgency in Nigeria.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has solicited the support of the umbrella Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) for the country’s ongoing digitization process in broadcasting.

About three years ago, I used most of my savings to pay for my daughter’s marriage. She’s the only girl though we have two other male children. Shortly after she got married, I lost a lot of money through the crash of the stock market. I’m trying to find my feet financially, though it’s not been easy.

THE National Working Committee (NWC) of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, suspended its Borno State Chairman, Alhaji Baba Basharu, over what it described as his involvement in alleged anti-party activities.

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Wednesday, apologised for the lingering fuel scarcity in the country.

As part of his efforts to boost agriculture and improve technological expertise of artisans in Ekiti State, Governor Ayodele Fayose has travelled to Guangzhou, China to attend the 119th China Import and Export Fair otherwise known as the Canton Fair between April 14 and 19.

By Levinus Nwabughiogu Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama has said that the relationship beaten Nigeria and Switzerland was cordial. The minister was reacting to a piece of article in a national daily(not Vanguard) which he said was disparaging. A statement which he personally signed on Tuesday stated that an investigation had been ordered into […]

THE International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, has disclosed that it has spent $317.6 million on 10 development projects in Nigeria for the past 30 years.