Manchester City could be set for a squad overhaul in summer 2017 with up to seven players looking likely to depart.

THE Edo state governorship election has come and gone. Gone Along with it is the pervasive fear of the untoward, among which is the alleged invasion of particularly the state capital by straggling militants from neighbouring states. Putting it mildly, the threat almost sent the blood pressure of everyone, including citizens, residents, politicians, electoral personnel, […]

The Director General of Media and Publicity, Office of the Kogi State Governor, Kingsley Fanwo has stated that Alh. Sadiq Mohammed Rabiu, Chairman of the State Pilgrims Board’s travails is not unconnected with allegations of fraud and dehumanizing treatment of pilgrims from the State to this year’s Hajj.

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA – A legal practitioner, Mr. Olukoya Ogungbeje has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari to court, accusing him of violating rights of judges whose houses were raided by operatives of the Department of State Service, DSS. In an N50billion suit he entered before the Federal High Court in Abuja, the Lagos based lawyer, […]

Following the statement by the First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari that some cabals have hijacked her husband’s APC-led government, the South African chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, called on President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to empathize with suffering Nigerians in the face of biting recession.

Abuja – The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the release of the 21 Chibok girls “is only a first step in what we believe will be a total liberation of all the girls’’. The minister made the statement on Sunday at a thanksgiving service organised for the freed girls at the […]

Odemwingie, a Nigerian international and a three-time winner of the Premier League player of the month award, has been a free agent since his release from Stoke this summer and he wants a comeback.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advocated tax incentives for wealthy Nigerians so as to contribute to the fund meant to wage war against cancer.

Charlie Austin scored twice to help Southampton up to eighth place in the Premier League with a 3-1 victory over Burnley.

Alleged armed herdsmen between Saturday and Sunday killed not less than 20 persons after they lay a surprise siege on Godogodo, a semi-urban settlement, in Jema’a Local Government Area, LGA, of Kaduna State as at the time of going to press.

The 21 freed Chibok Girls say on Sunday in Abuja that for “one month and 10 days’’ of their abduction by the Boko Haram insurgents they stayed without food in the bush.

The Enugu State Chapter of the PDP has commended Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi for launching 35 projects across 17 council areas of the state.

By Soni Daniel The Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has asked the two judges accusing him of being behind their travails in the hands of the Department of State Security Service, to go to court to prove their claims against him. Malami, who spoke through his Media Adviser, Comrade Salihu Isah, said the […]

The Lagos State Government at the weekend said it would commence total upgrade of schools in the State, especially in the slum areas, as well as evolve a robust Youth and Senior Citizens’ Policy by January 2017.

By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI. The immediate past Governor of Imo State, Chief Ikedi Ohakim, has said that the nation’s economy was HIV positive before the advent of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, but was professionally managed with anti-retroviral drugs. Chief Ohakim made his feelings known while delivering a 52-page lecture, “Leadership in times of adversity: Navigating […]