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SEVERAL Igbo leaders have rejected the offer of Ndigbo producing the next Nigerian president after the tenure of the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari saying that the restructuring of the nation is more important.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has recalled Torino midfielder Joel Obi and Malaga striker Brown Ideye to camp for the two forthcoming friendlies next month against Poland and Serbia.

SAUDI Arabia has relented on one of its highly discriminatory and conservative traditions by passing new laws that permit women to join the kingdom's armed forces in what is seen as part of an ongoing reform process.

OHANEZE Youth Council (OYC) officials have declared four days of mourning to celebrate the  death of former Biafran Army war commander Col Joseph Achuzie who passed away yesterday.

ABOUT 900 Nigerian pilgrims absconded while on pilgrimage to the holy sites of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia during the course of 2017 according to the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (Nahcon).

NIGERIAN-born striker Eniola Aluko has been given stringent conditions upon which she can return to the England team by head coach Phil Neville which include her scoring regularly for her clubside Chelsea Ladies.

SIX suspected drug traffickers have been arrested after 860 pounds of cocaine were found in the Russian Embassy in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires during a police raid which uncovered the narcotics.

One former Russian diplomatic official and an Argentine police officer were among those detained. Local authorities confirmed that there were drugs inside the 16 pieces of luggage and they had to replace the cocaine with flour while it was still at the embassy.

FORMER aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption war stressing that it’s selective as politicians who decamp to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have charges against them dropped.

SUPER Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr has sent the team's goalkeeper trainer Pionetti Enrico to Spain to do some work with Deportivo La Coruna goalkeeper Francis Uzoho ahead of next month's two friendlies against Poland and Serbia.

NIGERIAN Amy troops patrolling in Benue State have arrested a Fulani cattle herdsman armed with a locally-made  bulletproof vest and other weapons in a development that surprised them at how well equipped these pastoralists are.