Former Manchester United great Eric Cantona has backed Jose Mourinho’s squad to get back to challenging for top honours, three years since they last won the Premier League.

WHILE the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is yet to conclude the 2015 general elections in Rivers and other states where some of the legislative polls were voided by the various election tribunals, politicians all over the country are already strategising for the 2019 polls.

A new film project bankrolled by a group of individuals and hoteliers, expected to engage more than 5,000 Niger Delta youths in acting, has started auditioning in Delta and Bayelsa states.

There has been a report of a car-bomb explosion in Maiduguri. “There is a reported case of bomb blast around Muna Garage,” the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) tweeted. More details soon

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth wing has tweeted on its twitter handle PDP Youth Frontier ‏@PDPNYF that President Muhammad Buhari is a drowning President. This came as the party also on its handle @OfficialPDPNig announced new handles: @pdpnhqyorubanig, @pdpnhqhausanig, @pdpnhqpidginnig for supporters to follow. [View the story “President Buhari a drowning President – PDP” […]

An elder Statesman, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu of Imo State, has said that the time has come for us to begin to think of what to do with our natural resources cas he alled on the Federal Government to use the crude oil for the production of other materials rather than exporting to other countries.

Kwara State governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Board of the Kwara State Public Private Partnership Bureau (KP3) to supervise all PPP arrangements in the state.

Indications emerged, yesterday, that the Federal Government is set to release by the end of this year a comprehensive document that would set out in one publication all the various sector plans which have already been adopted by the government.

Attempts by hundreds of ex-militants under the Presidential Amnesty Programme to block the East-West Road in protest against their unpaid three months allowances was, yesterday, foiled by armed troops attached to the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta codenamed Operation Delta Safe, ODS.

Algeria coach Milovan Rajevac has expressed his disappointment at his side’s 1-1 draw with Cameroon in their opening group stage qualifier for the 2018 World Cup. The Fennec Foxes were held to a home draw in Blida by the Indomitable Lions last Sunday night.

The defection of the popular Ondo political warhorse from the All Progressives Congress, APC to the Alliance for Democracy, AD is affecting the political balance in the state.

Video: Buhari does not know a bag of rice costs N20,000 – Reno

To ensure the country is completely purged of corruption, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that the anti-corruption war would be holistic and thorough to the extent that even the political associates and friends of President Muhammadu Buhari would not be spared.

The Federal aHigh Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State, yesterday, remanded a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state, Chief Benjamin Apugo in prison custody over alleged N36 million fraud.

Chief Amiesimaka believes the general apathy among stake holders in Nigerian sports has not helped the growth of sports in the country