Antonio Conte has urged Chelsea to take a significant step towards a top four finish in the Premier League by beating Stoke on Saturday.

Liverpool’s successful pursuit of Virgil van Dijk will end the year on a high note for Jurgen Klopp’s club as they face Leicester in the Premier League on Saturday.

US President Donald Trump Thursday said he believes the probe into Russian meddling in the US election “makes the country look very bad,” according to The New York Times. Speaking to the newspaper, Trump said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller will treat him fairly — a view in contrast with recent attacks on Mueller’s […]

GOVERNOR Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said there is no rift between him and the Catholic Church, insisting that the decision of the Church to disallow politicians from speaking during masses should be respected by the political class.

THE Action Democratic Party, ADP, has sympathised with President Muhammadu Buhari and his family over the bike accident involving his only son, Yusuf.

A Chinese aircraft leasing company said on Thursday it will buy 50 Airbus A320neo jets for $5.42 billion as part of a drive to capitalise on ever-growing demand for air travel in China.

At least 14 people were killed when a huge blaze tore through a popular restaurant in Mumbai early Friday, police said, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.

A 27-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast has been arrested on the Thai island of Phuket after an airport X-ray found more than one kilogramme of cocaine in her stomach wrapped in scores of small packets.

THE Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ihiala, Anambra State, Rt Reverend Israel Okoye has condemned the resurgence of slave trade in the Maghreb region of North Africa, calling on the Nigerian government to take proactive steps to stem the tide as many Nigerians had become victims.

Italy aims to deploy up to 470 troops to Niger to help tackle traffickers, the military General Staff said.

ABOUT five persons allegedly died, Wednesday night, when a sea-going vessel rammed into a local transport boat filled with passengers and goods worth millions of Naira at Bennett River, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State.

A 35-year-old commercial bus conductor, Rasheed Balogun, yesterday, appeared before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly beating up his fellow conductor and removing three of his teeth.

THE Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, and Council of Ogoni Traditional Rulers, yesterday, traded words over purported invasion of MOSOP’s secretariat in Bori, Ogoniland, Rivers State by the military.

MEANWHILE, in responding to this development, the Federal Government recently constituted a committee to develop a strategy for the deployment of technology for the decongestion of prisons in Nigeria and the implementation of Virtual Automated Case Management System, VACMS. Government said the committee, chaired by the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Ishaq Bello, would aid the systematic decongestion of all the prisons in the country as well as periodically analyse the number of detainees.