Assistant coach of the national Women’s U-20 football team, the Falconets,  Mansur Abdullahi has declared that the team cannot afford to lose their final group match against China.

EXTORTION, literally means “twisting out”; obtaining money or other belongings by violence, threats or unreasonable demands.

In November of 2006, former schoolteacher and Anambra Deputy Governor, Dr. Virgy Etiaba became, by default, the first female Nigerian governor, a position she held for four months

Arsenal manager Unai Emery has revealed that Alex Iwobi is not amongst the three players that could still leave the club before the close of the transfer window in Europe this month.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stated that the alternative financing model adopted has led to the sustainable funding of deep-water Production Sharing Contract which currently accounts for 41 per cent of daily national production.

THE anti-corruption war being waged by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration got a big boost on Tuesday after the removal from office of the former Director General of the Department of State Services, Lawal Daura. Already, the Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, has settled the rift between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC, and the Department of State Services ,DSS, which had, under Daura, stood against Ibrahim Magu and his agency from investigating or arresting top security chiefs, suspected to have been involved in large scale cash movements.

UYO—These are very interesting times and the nation political scene has become a huge theatre of sorts. The season of defection which started from the National Assembly, birthed in Akwa Ibom State on August 8, as the much expected defection of Senator Godswill Akpabio to the All Progressives Congress (APC) came to pass after days heightened tension.

There is genuine cause for alarm over the match fitness of influential Nigeria captain Obi Mikel ahead of the national team’s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Seychelles early next month.

New Tanzania manager, Emmanuel Amuneke is not jealous and envious of the giant strides that have been made by his former teammate at Barcelona, Pep Guuardiola in the coaching business.

The Former Military Administrator of Kaduna State, Col Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (Rtd) has called for thorough investigation of the dismissed Director General of Department of State Security (DSS), Lawal Daura, as he ran a government within Nigerian government and caused previous atrocities.

The Deputy Speaker of the Kaduna state House of Assembly, Hon. John Audu Kwaturu, representing Kachia state constituency has resigned from the All Progressive Congress and pitched camp with the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

Two of the eight recovered bodies out of the nine National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, members who drowned at Mayo-Selbe river in Gashaka Local Government Area of Taraba state have been taken to Anambra and Kaduna states. Divers in Gashaka have also intensified effort in their search for the last victim who was yet to be found since Sunday.

Former National Caretaker of the PDP and former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Muhammed Makarfi, has cautioned the party against selecting an unpopular candidate for the 2019_presidential election. Makarfi spoke in Enugu yesterday while addressing supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the course of his tour of the South Eastern states to consult the people on his presidential ambition.

The 5-a-side football competition designed by Premier Cool, a brand of PZ Cussons, tagged ‘Turf Wars’, kicked off over the week as 32 teams were screened into the voting stages of the competition. The screening exercise took place at the company’s offices in Ilupeju, Lagos.

It is not uncommon to find the elderly persons being paraded for various crimes at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters, Ikeja. But in this case, Mrs Gladys Osaigbovo-Omon (60), was not a guest at the command over any criminal matter.