More than 750 foreigners from eight west African countries, stranded in the southeastern Nigerian port of Calabar since Christmas after their ferry broke down, left by road Saturday, a statement said.

The European Union on Saturday raised serious concerns over Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, warning it could have “dangerous consequences” for a region already fraught with sectarian tensions.

English Premier League table after Saturday’s 1500 GMT matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points):

THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, family in Delta State heaved a sigh of relief when the news of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s victory at the Court of Appeal filtered in from Abuja at about 2pm on December 24, 2015, a day before Christmas.

Laurent Koscielny scored as Arsenal edged Newcastle United 1-0 on Saturday to pull two points clear of Leicester City at the top of the Premier League table.

Barcelona missed the chance to open up a three-point lead at the top of La Liga as they were held 0-0 by local rivals Espanyol in a heated Catalan derby on Saturday.

In the past four weeks, the community of Anibaba, Bugon Filling Station and Water Corporation, Obafemi Awolowo Road, Ikorodu has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) is to increase the number of empowered people in Ndokwa.

Following the fuss between Olamide and Don Jazzy at the just concluded Headies awards 2015, music lovers and fans of both artistes have taken to the social media to state their own views about the outbursts. [View the story “Did fans take sides on Olamide, Don Jazzy fuss?” on Storify]

Publisher Ovation Magazine, Otunba Dele Momodu, has disclosed that the intervention of the Orangun of Oke Ila, Oba Dokun Abolarin, stopped him from replying the insults hurled at him by David Adeleke (Davido) and others over the baby mama controversy.

It seems YBNL’s Lil Kesh and Mavin’s Reekado Banks are at peace while their bosses, Olamide Adedeji and Don Jazzy fight over who truly deserved the Next Rated Artiste between the Shoki crooner and the Katapot singer (Lil Kesh and Reekado Banks).

Lagos State Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, has joined the tirade between YBNL’s CEO, Olamide Adedeji and Mavin’s boss, Michael Collins Ajereh, better known as Don Jazzy.

Finally we are aware that President Buhari has directed security agencies to be more vicious in dealing with our members and has continued to subtly coerce the Judiciary to convict those being charged to court. But what gives us joy is that President Buhari is not God and we will not worship him.

YBNL frontman Olamide Adedeji, has apologised over his outburst at the just concluded Headies awards 2015.

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Saturday in Abuja said Head Coach Sunday Oliseh has named the Super Eagles B squad for the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Rwanda.