City Police’s senior officers in London have turned down a request from Premier League clubside West Ham to help secure their stadium on match days. Their action was based on the fact that the £700 million ground does not have a “satisfactory’’ radio system. The club had requested a police presence in the ground after crowd trouble.

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has discovered 41 fake and unlicenced service providers operating in the country’s telecommunications landscape. The regulatory body made this known in its ”2016 Q1 Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Reports”, made available to newsmen, in Lagos.

The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, has told Air Force personnel involved in the fight against Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast that President Muhammadu Buhari is very happy and appreciates their efforts.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday identified Nigeria’s over-dependence on oil as responsible for the present economic recession the nation was passing through. Mohammed made the assertion at a news briefing in his residence in Oro, Irepodun Local Government Area in Kwara.

Rising musician, Olusegun Olowokere aka Iceberg slim has pleaded openly with colleagues in the music industry not to copy his latest hairstyle.

First round matches of the UEFA champions league group stage will begin today.

The Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki on Tuesday, assured Nigerians that the present economy recession rocking the country will soon be tackled through legislative support. Saraki, gave the assurance in Ilorin during an interaction with Journalists, while also affirming that Nigerians were really suffering.

Enugu State Government has launched an interactive internet online platform “MY STEWARDSHIP” to engender people-oriented social engagement needed for an inclusive and responsive governance.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday paid a visit to former military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar in Minna,Niger State.

The Minster of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola had said all businesses involving movement of trailers and tankers on Nigeria roads were to revert to rail transportation even as he blamed the past administrations for the recessions in the country.

A former senator, Sen. Abubakar Sodangi, has reiterated that he did not decamp from PDP to All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest for the governorship seat in 2019. Sodangi represented Nasarawa West at the National Assembly between 1999 and 2011 under the platform of PDP.

Dr Ben Ugheoke, the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Abuja’s chapter, says the union has not issued strike notice to the Federal Government. In a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday, he said that he did not grant any interview or issue a statement on pending strike as it was reported.

Mr. Saifudeen Seun Edu who is in charge of the food section, studied law at the University of Manchester and went on to do his legal practice course, a post-graduate course at BPP University in London, after which he went to the US to take the New York Bar exam. He is in Nigeria now for his one year national youth service programme.

A militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, in the early hours of Tuesday, blew up the Afiesere-Iwhrenene major delivery line to UPS/UQCC, operated by Nigeria Petroleum Development Company, NDPC/Shorelines Petroleum in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State.

Chelsea captain John Terry will be sidelined for 10 days after suffering an ankle ligament injury against Swansea on Sunday.