The World Bank country director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, earlier this month said that 63% or 100 million Nigerians were destitute, living below the poverty line. In her words, “1.2 billion people live in destitution (around the world) out...
Why is underclass revolution in the pressure cooker going to blow up in everyone’s face? The devils in disguise are hiding under ethnic loyalties. Since we encourage them with one heart, one mind and the only one life we...
England midfielder Michael Carrick has extended his contract with Manchester United, keeping him at the club until June 2015 with an option of a further year.
Carrick has established himself as an integral part of the United team since joining...
Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted he is not obsessed with winning the Ballon d'Or for a second time in January despite a series of scintillating performances that have made him the strong favourite to win the award.
Ronaldo scored his fifth...
Football clubs are aiming to get 40,000 more women and girls playing the sport with a new £2.4m grassroots scheme.
Season-long coaching sessions will be aimed at 14-25-year-olds.
The Football Association and Sport England are joining forces with the Premier League...
Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet says he must have the final word on the club's January transfer signings.
The 46-year-old will work on player recruitment alongside Sunderland's director of football, Roberto De Fanti, and chief scout Valentino Angeloni.
But Poyet, who...
The future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan remained in doubt on Friday after a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai rejected a U.S. call to sign a security pact by the end of the year rather than after next year's...
An explosion in a Sinopec Corp oil pipeline killed 35 people in Qingdao in eastern China on Friday, causing a blaze that took several hours to bring under control and halting operations at a major oil port, media and...
The six largest Islamist rebel factions in Syria declared a new Islamic Front on Thursday, forming the largest alliance of opposition fighters yet in the 2-1/2-year conflict.
Syria's fractious rebel forces have tried many times to unify their ranks and...
Rescue workers pulled bodies from the ruins of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga on Friday as the death toll swelled to 38 in the Baltic state's worst disaster in decades.
Cranes lifted large slabs from the wreckage...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
