English FA ends sponsorship deals with betting companies
The English Football Association has ended its sponsorship deals with betting company Ladbrokes and confirmed it was ceasing all commercial agreements with gambling firms.
Nigeria Police key to regional peace, stability – IGP
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, says the Nigeria Police Force is key agency in ensuring sustainable African regional stability and peace. Idris, disclosed this on Tuesday at the West Africa National Security Conference, holding at Accra, Ghana.
Sultan of Sokoto assures Nigeria will remain indivisible
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has promised that the traditional institution would continue to work relentlessly for Nigeria to remain peaceful, united and indivisible.
33 cattle rustlers, hoodlums lynched
No fewer than 33 hoodlums have been reportedly killed by security forces and locals in Ihorombe region of Madagascar on Tuesday.
Market women protest use of weighing scales in Osun
A section of women at Igbona Market in Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun state, on Thursday, staged a peaceful demonstration to protest against the ultimatum given by the Osun state government over the use of weighing scale known as ‘Osuwon Omoluabi’.
Balotelli ‘ready to make financial effort’ to stay in Nice
Italian international striker Mario Balotelli is determined to stay at Ligue 1 outfit Nice next season, club president Jean-Pierre Rivere revealed on Thursday.
My recall, comedy of errors – Dino Melaye
The war between the Kogi state governor Yahaya Bello and the Senator representing Kogi west senatorial district, Sen. Dino Melaye has unarguably gathered momentum and thus raised lots of political arguments, turbulent and social quagmire in Kogi state.
No royal wants to be king or queen, Britain’s Prince Harry says
Prince Harry said no one in Britain’s royal family wants to be king or queen and criticised a decision to force him to parade behind his mother Princess Diana’s coffin after her death in 1997.
Reconstruction: Apapa-Wharf road gridlock can result to fuel scarcity -NUPENG
The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has expressed worry that the gridlock being experienced by petroleum tankers and articulated vehicles on Apapa-Wharf Road may result to fuel scarcity. Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, the South-West Chairman of the union said this in an interview in Lagos on Thursday. The gridlock is due to […]
To those who threaten to jail Biafrans
A man called Nnamdi Kanu and his movement called the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) single-handedly brings the whole of the south-east of our country to a standstill with his one day “stay at home order” and someone in the Presidency says they don’t consider him to be a leader of thought? Clearly the Villa curse has set in.
Weekly romp could help ageing minds: study
The benefits of doing crossword puzzles or learning languages have long been touted to stave off mental decline. Now a new study says regular sex for over-50s should help too.
