Diego Simeone’s love affair with Atletico Madrid is set to continue for another three years after the Argentine renewed his contract till 2020 on Tuesday.

Wall Street stocks fell early Tuesday on worries about North Korea and as another major hurricane approached the United States.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Plateau on Tuesday said it had arrested a 25-year-old man, Zulkifil Aliyu, who specialised in illegal narcotics trade within Jos metropolis.

Amid international uproar over North Korea’s latest and biggest nuclear weapons test, one of its top diplomats said on Tuesday his country was ready to send “more gift packages’’ to the U.S.

ABUJA—THE troops of Mobile Strike Teams, MSTs, 21, on Operation Lafiya Dole, deployed within the 21 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, killed a large number of Boko Haram terrorists, while other terrorists sustained gun shot wounds.

The Bayelsa State police command has confirmed suspected armed men attack at the Kolo Police Station located in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Ministry of Transportation says the National Council on Transportation has approved the commencement of a `bicycle riding’ project, as a means of transportation in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Nigeria has exited its worst economic recession in more than two decades, notching up growth of 0.55 per cent in the second quarter of 2017

The United States Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, has given Nigerian airlines a 65-day ultimatum to resolve specified security issues or risk being barred from flying to its country.

Former Assistant Director of State Security Service, SSS, Abba Kaka Mohammed, has dragged the Director-General of the agency, Lawal Daura, to Abuja Division of Federal High Court over alleged detention without trial.

Argument over desirability of  Biafra by some Nigerians in India has been  blamed for the death of  N. Chigozie, a 33 year old who came to India with a student visa.

 ABUJA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration over its “deafening silence” on the allegation of corruption against the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, by the senator representing Bauchi Central senatorial district, Isa Misau.

At least 23 universities in the country have adopted the 120 cut-off mark recently introduced by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB.

YENAGOA – THE Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders, NDRC, a militant group in the Niger Delta, Tuesday, rejected the call by the Pan Niger Delta People’s Congress, PNDPC, and the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA, on the former Federal Commissioner for Information and Convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Senator Edwin Clark, to step aside as Leader of the oil region.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday expressed confidence in the ability of the new Commissioner of Police in the State, Mr Imohimi Edgal to deliver on the enormous task before him in effectively and efficiently policing the State, saying that the security of lives and property in the State remain paramount.