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FIFA today has officially authorised the use of head covers for religious reasons during football matches for both male and female. It concluded today after a two-year trial proved that ‘wearing of head covers while playing competitive football posed too great a risk of injury to the head or neck’ ...

According to Vangard A twin explosion, Saturday evening, rocked a football viewing centre in Ajilari ward, Jere Council area of Maiduguri, �the Borno state capital killing several football fans. The Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), said to have been planted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists at the viewing centre in Ajilari ...

Extremist Syrian organization named ISIS – Islamist State in Iraq and Syria – cut off a man’s hand for allegedly stealing and tweeted the event and photos live. Daily Mail UK reports that ISIS claimed the man had asked for the punishment to be carried out in Maskanah, northern Syria, ...

Abductors of Inengite Nitabai, the 70-year old uncle of President Goodluck Jonathan, have demanded a N500m ransom, Sahara Reporters report. A security source said that the abductors threatened to kill him if the family fails to produce the money. The source also said the family had constituted a committee to ...

Over 40 students were brutally murdered during an attack by Boko Haram gunmen on the Federal Government College Buni-Yadi, Yobe state in the early hours of Tuesday February 25th. Many of the students are still unaccounted for. Below are the names of 24 students confirmed dead. Sale Mamiski, Musa Muhammad, ...

One of the students who was shot by the terrorists but managed to survived, said: �I was shot on my left leg, while I was sleeping. When I woke up, I could not walk and was later taken to the girls hostel where the insurgents gathered us with the female ...

  Mass killing of school children at the Federal Government College in the Buni Yadi area of Yobe was shrouded in mystery after reports revealed that only male students were killed. It has been learnt, however that the extremists intentionally spared the female students. According to the officials, female students ...

President Goodluck Jonathan Ousted Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has finally concretised his threat to sue President Goodluck Jonathan over his removal as head of the bank last week. According to a suit filed at a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja late on Monday, ...

A Ugandan newspaper has published a list of the country’s ‘top 200’ homosexuals, a day after their president signed their anti gay bill into law which punishes ‘aggravated homosexuality’ with life in prison. The Red Pepper, a Ugandan tabloid, ran the names of 200 people it claims are homosexuals, and ...

Yesterday, most courts in the Ikeja High Court complex� opted to conduct their proceedings in darkness following persistent power outage. Vanguard reports that there has been persistent power outage in the court in the past one week. On Thursday morning all the courts could not initially seat until about 11 ...

Officials of the State Security Service, SSS, have seized the travelling documents of suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, shortly after he arrived Lagos from Niger, where he had gone to attend a meeting of governors of central banks in the West African sub-region. Shortly ...

Sanusi tells CNBC AFRICA “I have been told by my office that a letter was received. As you know, I flew in this morning to Niamey along with other Governors of West African Central Banks to meet with the President of Niger and President of Ghana. Fortunately, I came in ...

President Jonathan has picked the current Managing Director of Zenith Bank Godwin Emefiele to replace Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. His name has been forwarded to the Senate for confirmation. Bayo Adelabu, the current Executive Director at First Bank as Deputy Governor ...

The mega $19 billion deal between Facebook and Whatsapp has left the people talking about its worthiness. Though, Facebook founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg has explained as to why his company has agreed to pay a whopping $19bn to acquire the messaging service WhatsApp. It may seem a pure business deal ...

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has been suspended by President Goodluck Jonathan. Here is a statement the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati just released: Having taken special notice of reports of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria and other investigating ...

  Governor Fashola has signed the No Smoking in Public Places Bill into law. It means it is now illegal to lit your cigarettes in public places e.g public toilets, museums, nurseries, any facility used for the care of children etc. According to the law, people who smoke in public ...

Sahara Reporters�reported few days ago that the First lady was secretely flown abroad due to her failing health but Sunday evening, Mrs. Jonathan left the Villa to pay a condolence visit to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, over the death of his brother. Mohammed seized ...

The first son of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, Chinedum, on Saturday escaped assassination when an unknown gunman shot at his car, as he was about to be conveyed out of the venue of a reception organised by Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency in honour of his father in Umuahia. But ...

Monday, February 24th, has been fixed by The Lagos State University (LASU) Senate in a memo dated 14th February the resumption date for the school shut down three weeks ago following students unrest. It has been directed that the university be re-opened to allow final year students across all departments ...

While other artistes are busy making music, D’Banj is busy making other moves, bigger ones in my opinion. The ONE ambassador was seen with President Jonathan and the richest man in Africa Aliko Dangote at the State house today, 11th February 2014. D’Banj was a guest at the States House ...