German international Antonio Rudiger admitted Chelsea team-mate Callum Hudson-Odoi has picked his brains over a move to the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich keen to sign the 18-year-old Englishman.

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo has denied endorsing Alhaji Atiku Abubarka, the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election

Gabriel Jesus scored four as defending champions Manchester City destroyed League One (third tier) Burton Albion 9-0 in their League Cup semi-final first leg to all but formally book their place in the final.

Serena Williams has been handed a challenging draw in her quest for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, starting with Germany’s Tatjana Maria in the first round.

Delhi plans to create a special home for both elderly people and some of the Indian megacity’s thousands of cows, in a new animal welfare blitz also aimed at reducing numbers of monkeys and stray dogs.

The Consul-General of Nigeria in New York, Mr Ben Okoyen, says lack of reliable database is one of the factors delaying the implementation of Diaspora Voting by Nigerians outside their homeland.

PRESIDENT General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Nnia Nwodo has appraised the leadership of the apex Igbo organisation in the past years, noting that it has within the period given modest contribution to the re-jigging of Igbo leadership and leveraging of Igbo issues in Nigeria.

A train, Thurday morning, was reported to have derailed in Agege area of Lagos state.

Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the 2019 election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said job creation for Nigeria’s teeming youth populace would help checkmate the security challenges being felt in different parts of the country.

AS at the dawn of the current millennium, if there was any prediction that Nigeria will become the poverty capital of the world in less than 20 years away, such prediction would have been dismissed as arrant nonsense. That is obviously because, according to statistics, Nigeria’s poverty rate was on the decline   during the transition from the last millennium to the current. Presenting a report by the National Bureau of Statistics,   last year, the head of the NBS bureau, Yemi Kale said: “Despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is growing, the proportion of Nigerians living in poverty is increasing every year, although it declined between 1985 and 1992, and between 1996 and 2004.”