The United Nations Security Council has said it was not ready to back a West African intervention force in northern Mali, which has been seized by Islamist militant groups. The council condemned the destruction of ancient shrines in the historic city o...
Nigeria U20 team will take on Benin Republic counterparts in an AYC warm-up match on July 14 in either Ibadan or Lagos, officials said. President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Aminu Maigari, said the friendly will serve as a tune-up game fo...
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke has announced that goal-line technology has been given approval by the International Football Association Board (IFAB), football’s law-making body. Following nine months of testing in England, Germany, Hungary...
Usain Bolt has withdrawn from his final race before London 2012 due to a “slight” injury problem. Bolt, 25, was scheduled to run the 200m at the Diamond League meet in Monaco on 20 July. The three-time Olympic gold medallist withdrew ...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria will face Liberia in the qualifiers for the 2013 Nations Cup holding in South Africa next year. It’s a two legged tie with the first game coming up in Monrovia on September 7-9, with the second legs ...
Kwara State Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed, in this interview with ABDULLAHI OLESIN, speaks about the state’s concept of ‘shared prosperity’. He also gives reasons why governors do not buy into federal government’s plan to have a sov...
At least four were injured when an improvised explosive device exploded in Mararabar Jos, along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway.Though the assistant director, Army public relations of 1 Mechanised Division, Colonel Sani Usman, said only one person received...
The Senate, yesterday, denied recognition to the embattled Director General (DG) of the Bureau of Public Enterprise, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, at a committee meeting, and insisted that she could no longer speak on behalf of the Bureau having been removed ...
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon has called on member states still operating the death penalty to abolish its practice, and stressed that the right to life lies at the heart of international human rights law. “The taking of life ...
Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday alleged that the secretary of Oredo Local Government Area, Chris Okaeben, an Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) of masterminding the attack on and abduction of Ward two chairman Egor local...
Assailants have killed five personnel of the Special Task Force (STF) at the outskirts of Jos in the last three months, according to STF spokesman, Captain Salisu Mustafa. ``We have lost five of our men in the past four months; these security officers ...
A two-storey building that partially collapsed after a heavy downpour on Tuesday at 49 Freeman Street, Oyingbo area of Lagos State has been demolished by the state government. Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State Emergency Management Agencies (L...
The newly appointed Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Andrew Yakubu, has declared zero tolerance for corruption in the corporation under his watch. Yakubu, who made this position known during his inaug...
A Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the remand in prison for six months, three chieftains of the PeoplesDemocratic Party (PDP) for flouting an order of the court. The three PDP chieftains are Chief IretiOniyide, Amb. TundeOladunjoye (now Me...
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Terrence McCulley, has said that corruption, insecurity and lack of respect for rule of law are some of the impediments to local and foreign investments in Nigeria. Ambassador McCulley said this yesterday in...