Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying election materials in central Mali, triggering a shootout in which four soldiers and eight attackers were killed, a Defence Ministry spokesman said by telephone on Wednesday.

All is set for the take-off of the 8th Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Swimming Championships, an annual event, which held last in 2016 due to inadequate funding as it has secured more sponsorship.

Jose Mourinho was finally given something to smile about as a tempestuous trip to the United States ended with Man United’s 2-1 win over former club Real Madrid thanks to first-half strikes from Alexis Sanchez and Ander Herrera.

France defender Lucas Digne says he is excited by the challenge of playing in the Premier League after he signed for Everton for a reported £19million ($25million, 21million euros) from Barcelona on Wednesday.

Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku has curtailed his vacation and will join Manchester United at the start of their Premier League campaign, manager Jose Mourinho has said

As political activities heighten across the country, the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, Bro. Felix Obuah has expressed optimism that Governor Wike would win for another term if he accepts the calls to run in 2019.

GOVERNOR Nyesom Wike has said eventual defection of Senate President, Bukola Saraki and Kwara State Governor, Abdulfatah Ahmed to the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, further reflects the failure of the All Progressives Congress, APC, led Federal Government, FG.

Following recent redeployment of senior officers by Army headquarters, the mantle of command of Operation Lafiya Dole has been handed over by Major General Rogers Nicholas to Major General Abba Dikko at the Headquarters Theatre Command in Maiduguri.

A 45-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Julius Ochim, has been arrested for impregnating his daughter, in their Shagamu residence in Ogun State.

Anambra east  APGA executive officers frowns at the non confirmation of Hon Cyril Okafor, APGA Youth Leader for Anambra east local government as the Transition Committee Chairman of the local government by Anambra State House of Assembly.

At the beginning of this new relationship, the love-making was good. But the last few months, my boyfriend seemed to be avoiding love-making. He’s still his old loving self, but the lack of love-making is getting me down.

THE “Isi Gate”main market in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, established during the colonial era, has returned to business. It  was  a source of concern to successive administrations as its presence posed ugly sight that made the capital look like a slum.

THE political talk of the town now is the “defection” of fourteen senators and thirty-seven representatives from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Indeed, to my good friend Olisa Agbakoba — founding president and former colleague at the Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), now co-convener of the Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) — what transpired last week in the tainted chambers of the National Assembly is nothing short of the warning waves of a political tsunami of mass desertion from APC.

Security collapsed as imperial crowns belonging to the Swedish royal family were stolen by thieves who escaped on a motorboat on Tuesday, reports claim.

OLEH—STALWART of the All Progressives Congress,  APC, in Delta State, Mr. Michael Emumena, has condemned the exclusion of a chairmanship candidate of the party in the state, Chief Fred Obe, from the reconciliation move of warring factions of the party in the state by the National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole,  despite  securing a court order restraining APC from recognising Chief Cyril Ogodo or any other person as Delta State APC chairman.