Ghana is through to the next round of the 2010 African and World Cup qualifiers after a 3-0 win over Lesotho.

Nigeria coach Shuaibu Amodu made some major changes to his starting line-up and was rewarded with a comprehensive 4-1 win over Sierra Leone in a 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Saturday in Abuja.

FORMER Nigeria Football Federation, (NFF), Technical Director, Chief Kashimawo Laloko, has advised Super Eagles head coach, Shaibu Amodu, to beef up the present Eagles with new players who are at their peak in their various clubs.

Guinea has become a major drug-trafficking hub and the trade there is now potentially more dangerous than in Guinea-Bissau, according to Antonio Mazzitelli, regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.

In August, floods loosened the dry caked Sahelian earth in Gao, northern Mali, affecting more than 1,000 people, many of whom temporarily took refuge in area schools.

Movement for Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) has explained why Rivers State has remained the focus of its violent attacks.

Nigeria's starting eleven for today's game against Sierra Leone goes for youth and pace.

The appeal filed by the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) governorship candidate in Niger State, David Umaru before the Court of Appeal in Abuja against the judgement of the state governorship Election Petitions Tribunal which upheld the election of Governor Babangida Aliyu, has suffered a major setback following a blunt declaration by a senior advocate of Nigeria, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, that he ...

Paul Ojeih, a natural medicine practitioner, is no stranger to controversy. Nick Uweru examines why he raises so much hoopla in the medical circle.

A Gastroentritis epidemic has hit Gombe State, claiming over 20 lives in three local government areas.

The managing director of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited, Engr Chimaobi Ibeneche, has identified productive capacity underpinned by a virile human capital as the real wealth of Nigeria.

Director–general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Dora Akunyili, has called on Nigerians to show a greater sense of patriotism.

The Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has called on the federal government to assist Borno and Yobe States in the areas of pest control.

The ag. chief executive officer of First Alliance Pension and Benefits Limited, Aliyu Yar'Adua, has applauded the activities of PENCOM in ensuring excellent regulation of pension administration in Nigeria.

Over 2,000 poor rural dwellers in Gombe State are to benefit from about N100million micro loan disbursed by the National Poverty Alleviation Programme (NAPEP) under its Village Solution Scheme

NIPOST has declared that postal services are still alive and even more relevant now than ever, as the craze for e-mail and internet services has not replaced it, but rather created more opportunities for it to operate.

National Coordinator, National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP), Magnus Kpakol, has condemned the North for over indulging in politics thus neglecting the region's state of underdevelopment. He made the declaration on Wednesday at the closing plenary session of the Northern Nigerian Economic and Investment Summit (NEIS) 2008, in Abuja.

Head of the Department of Mathematics, Ahmadu Ballo University , Zaria , Prof. G. U. Garba, has raised alarm that the educational gap between the South and the North is widening.

The managing director of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA), Alhaji Abdulsalam Mohammed, yesterday admitted that the organisation he heads is not responsible in its financial dealings.

Chose calling on the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, (ANPP), Gen. Mohammadu Buhari to withdraw his case at the Supreme Court over the April 2007 presidential election have been described as either misled, misinformed or incapable of understanding the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Following lingering debates on President Umaru Yar'Adua's state of health, prompting fears over his ability to rule, the northern Nigeria socio-cultural organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has thrown its weight behind him, with a declaration that the president is fit to rule.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) in Zamfara State, Alhaji Ahmed Suleiman Leda has asked the state governor, Alh. Aliyu Mahmuda Shinkafi to join the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), saying, "As a man of vision and purpose, he will be an asset in the mainstream PDP rather than being in the opposition."

The much awaited fight between the 'Nigerian Nightmare', Samuel Peters, and the Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko, will at last take place this night in Germany. Klitschko, who had his last match in 2004, seeks to write a new boxing history as he looks towards joining his younger brother, Wladimir, the IBF and WBO title holder, if he wins Peters. Vitali remarked that "two brothers as world heavy weight ...

To drive the economic potentials of the North, plans are at an advanced stage to build two power plants for Kaduna, Kano and Katsina axis. Phase one of the project to be located in Kaduna is expected to generate 1000 MW of electricity solely dedicated to serve the three states and environs with an envisaged 1000 MW expansion plant in Kano under the phase two.

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has sent a save-our-soul to the federal government over the deplorable condition of the East-West road, warning that if urgent steps are not taken in the areas of road and bridges rehabilitation, the Kaima bridge in Kolokuma/Opokuma area of Bayelsa and Mbiama bridge in Ahoada area of Rivers State may collapse.