President of the Nigeria Football Federation and President of AFCON, Amaju Pinnick on Wednesday in Rabat told the gathering of African football’s decision makers why CAF’s flagship tournament should be expanded.

Although he was master of all, it cannot be denied that Maitama breathed ‘wisdom’ into every sphere of our national lives. He spoke truth to a nation driven by bigotry, prejudice, intolerance and hate

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of AUD$3 million (US$2.2 million) from the Government of Australia that will provide food and nutritional assistance to tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria, where the Boko Haram insurgency and the current lean season have intensified hunger.

The Senate was, yesterday, poised for another showdown with Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, as it moved to pass a law to make the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU, independent of the commission, following the suspension of the country from the Egmont Group.

A civil society group in Onitsha, Anambra State, International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, Intersociety, will today, release the report of its special investigation into the over 25 dead bodies found floating on Ezu River located at Amansea part of Awka, the capital city of Anambra State in the late night/early morning of January 18 and 19, 2013.

DIRECTOR, Principal Consultant Learning Ltd, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo has urged the 52 graduating students of Grace High School to work hard so as to make meaningful changes in the society, stating that they should see challenges in the society as opportunity to make an impact.

Controller General of the Nigeria Prisons Service, Ja’afaru Ahmed has advised officers and men of the service against maltreating inmates, warning of dire consequences should there be any breach.

The latest telecom brand, 9Mobile, has said it was open to new investors after dropping old brand name, Etisalat Nigeria.

To unearth the whereabouts of N1.4 billion loan allegedly disbursed to unknown persons by the Nigeria Directorate of Employment, NDE, the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives, PAC, yesterday raised up a 6-man panel for the task.

A 70-year-old widow, Mrs. Maria Okoh, caught having sex with a 30-year-old man in Amauzu Nkpoghoro village in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, was fined three goats after being paraded round the village to appease the land.

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has explained its confusion in the face of clamour by some Nigerians for the restructuring of the country, saying it didn’t understand what people meant by it.

THE Senate yesterday raised the alarm that all the forty two anti- malaria drugs banned in Europe were still being stockpiled, sold and consumed in Nigeria.

ACTING President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday ordered the reinforcement of security apparatus in Kaduna State to apprehend those behind the recent killings of innocent citizens.

TROOPS of 120 Task Force Battalion, 27 Task Force Brigade, Tuesday, intercepted 30 fleeing family members of suspected Boko Haram terrorists at Goniri, Gujba Local Government Area, Yobe State.

PEREKPO Finidi, an ex-militant and close aide to hunted former General Officer Commanding, GOC, for the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, yesterday, gave reasons for the delay in talks between the Federal Government and the people of the Niger Delta, noting that the government would prefer talks with Tompolo rather than PANDEF.