Azarenka blames pedicure for injury
Victoria Azarenka is blaming a bad pedicure for the injury that forced her out of a Brisbane International semifinal against Serena Williams. The top-ranked Azarenka announced half an hour before...
Nigeria: 13% derivation: Oil communities demand accountability from govs
Oil producing communities in the Niger Delta area have asked governors of states in the region to give account of the 13 per cent derivation fund that is paid monthly...
Nigeria: ‘South-West PDP has no BOT chairmanship candidate’
The Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West has said it will not call for the adoption of any candidate for the party’s Board of Trustees chairmanship position. It had earlier...
Mansfield can upset Liverpool  Barnes
FORMER Anfield winger John Barnes says minnows Mansfield can shatter the footballing odds and beat Liverpool on Sunday. Lowly Stags face the Premier League giants and seven-times FA Cup winners...
Gaddafi uprising: I was locked up for 16 days without food  Owumi
ALEX Owumi comes across as a laid-back, down to earth guy without a care in the world. The Worcester Wolves point guard carries a warm smile as he sits down...
Nigeria:Man, 27, commits suicide in Ibadan
There was pandemonium at Idi Oro, Ona Ara Local Government Area of Oyo State, on Saturday when a 27-year-old man, Kasim Adeniran, committed suicide. The deceased, who was the ‘Oluwo...
Nigeria: We’ll mobilise support for Jonathan in 2015, S’South groups.
AHEAD of the 2015 presidential election, two groups from the South-South geopolitical zone of the country have vowed to mobilise Nigerians for President Goodluck Jonathan. The groups said there was...
Nigeria: Fire destroys seven cars at Ogun secretariat
Fire set by some unknown persons to the bush behind the perimeter fence of the Ogun State Government Secretariat, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta on Saturday destroyed no fewer than seven cars. The...
Sagamu jailbreak: Prisons sacks officer-in-charge
The escape of no fewer than 20 inmates of the Sagamu Prison in Ogun State, the Nigerian Prisons Service, has relieved the officer-in-charge of the facility, Mr. Omobitan, of his...
2012 budget poorly implemented – Lawmakers
Some lawmakers have tasked President Goodluck Jonathan with ensuring proper implementation of the 2013 budget to forestall a recurrence of the failures the previous one had. They said the National...