The two most expensive players in football go head-to-head on Wednesday when Cristiano Ronaldo leads Portugal against club teammate Gareth Bale and Wales in a Euro 2016 semi-final which could lead one to unprecedented glory.

The EU on Monday ordered seven Spanish football clubs including Barcelona and Real Madrid to pay back millions of euros (dollars) in illegal state aid.

Disgraced Paralympian Oscar Pistorius could return to jail on Wednesday, when a judge is set to sentence him for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp three years ago.

Cardinal John Onaiyekan, the Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, has called on Nigerians and governments at all levels to embrace dialogue in the resolution of any grievances.

The U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle, has said that there is no hidden agenda behind his country’s decision to stop crude oil purchase from Nigeria.

WHEN I read in the FORBES recently that ”democracy is delivering impossible results,” I didn’t understand until I met the indefatigable governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai. Call privitisation czar or Mr. Demolition, El Rufai is ostensibly a sharp departure from the behavioural instincts of some state Governors in Nigeria who have creamed out the finances of their various states.

Following last Monday’s judgment by Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja High Court, sacking Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, over alleged false disclosures in his tax certificate presented before he ran for the April 11, 2015 gubernatorial election, the state’s Internal Revenue Service, has insisted that the tax certificate it issued Ikpeazu was not fake.

The National President of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Mr Emeka Ike, has assured actors that his administration will restructure the guild through legal reforms and capacity building.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, has given stringent conditions for the release of Sen Iyiola Omisore who was arrested in Abuja yesterday morning after a raid and thorough search of his house.

Lagos State aspires to intensify internally generated revenue (IGR), so that it could reduce its dependence on federal allocated revenue to less than 10 per cent within the next two years.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he would be fair to all sections and tribes of Nigeria, assuring that he would never marginalize anyone.

The Acting Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, on behalf of officers of the Nigeria Police Force, has felicitated with Nigerians, especially Muslim faithfuls on the occasion of the 2016 Eid-el-fitri celebration coming up on July 5-6, 2016.

FULANI herdsmen have agreed with the Olomu Traditional Council in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State, to vacate the kingdom for an interim period of two weeks beginning from June 25, to July 9 to enable the kingdom work out modalities for re-entrance in order to avoid further clashes.

President Mohammadu Buhari has said that Nigerians must eschew ethnic-centrism and religious intolerance to move the country forward.

THE Senate, yesterday, said it had been vindicated by last Thursday’s ruling of a Federal High Court in Abuja, presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole, which described the forgery case filed against its presiding officers as an abuse of court process and a decision taken against public interest.