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SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has explained why he left goalkeepers Dele Alampasu and Dele Ajiboye out of the squad to face Poland and Serbia in two friendly games due to take place later this month saying they have not taken past chances given to them.

AN unidentified man believed to be a Nigerian facing deportation from the UK is said to have jumped to his death at Heathrow Airport just as immigration officials were leading him towards a plane to take him to Lagos.

Over the weekend, the man was being escorted to a plane to deport him to Nigeria but in the early hours of Saturday decided to take his life rather than face deportation. He jumped down from the level from where he was to the one below and died instantly.

NIGERIAN Army top brass has warned all battalion commanders that whoever fails to take decisive action against murderous Fulani cattle herdsmen currently rampaging across the country will face a court martial.
 

RIVERS State governor Nyesom Wike has told the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) that the country will not accept failure at the forthcoming World Cup this summer as the fans expect the team to advance to the knock-out stage of the tournament.

FORMER Benue State governor Senator George Akume has lashed out at President Muhammadu Buhari informing him that the people of the state are not happy with his administration over his handling of the Fulani herdsmen crisis.

FEMALE campaign group the Nigerian Women in Diaspora Leadership Forum (NWIDLF) held an international seminar over the weekend during which it charged its members to push the boundaries on gender equality to the next level by refusing to accept glass ceilings.

NIGERIAN senators have summoned senior executives of British petroleum giant BP Oil International to answer questions regarding a $3.3bn pre-financing deal that may have breached the Nigerian Oil and Gas Content Development Act 2010.

LAGOS evangelical clergyman Pastor Joshua Aranse has told an Alagbado Customary Court that he impregnated another woman and abandoned his matrimonial home for four years because he was sex starved.

NIGERIA'S U20 women's football team the Super Falconets have been drawn in the same group as perennial foes Germany alongside China and Haiti at the ninth Fifa World Cup taking place in France between August 5 and 24.

BRITAIN is to begin the construction of a new wing at the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos shortly as it looks to implement an agreement it entered into with Nigeria in 2014 regarding prisoner exchange.