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Chelsea’s loan policy has come under further scrutiny after FIFA confirmed it has received a complaint from Fiorentina over Mohamed Salah’s switch to Roma. The Premier League champions allowed Salah, a January 2014 arrival from Basle, to join Fiorentina on loan in February and the Egypt winger impressed in Serie A.

Following EA Sports release of the player ratings for the FIFA 16 football game, We have decided to count down the best rated 16 players in the game. It is quite disappointing that we don’t have a player in the top 50, but from the ratings of Nigerian players in FIFA 16,we see that Okocha (who plays as a legend in the game) is still the king of Nigerian football. Mikel Obi,

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, Uche Orji has declared that the Second Niger Bridge would not be completed and ready for use until 2020. Former President, Goodluck Jonathan had on March 2014 flagged off the bridge which was initially billed for completion in March 2018.

The Police in Kwara on Thursday warned members of the public to beware of online fraudsters who may take advantage of presidential directive to recruit 10, 000 police officers to defraud them. This is contained in a statement signed by the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Ajayi Okasanmi, and made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin.

A row has erupted over a "sexist" LinkedIn message received by a 27-year-old barrister. It's after Charlotte Proudman sent an invitation to a senior partner at a law firm who responded by commenting on her "stunning" profile picture. Proudman said she was not on the professional networking site "to be objectified". Cathy Young, contributing editor of Reason magazine in New York gives her reaction to Newsday.

Ireland votes in favour of resolution granting observer states the right to fly their flags The United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly approves a resolution, intended for Palestine, that allows non-member observer states to fly their flags at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Video: Reuters Palestinians overwhelmingly won the right to fly their national flag in front of the United Nations headquarters, a symbolic step opposed by Israel and the United States.

The three countries have significant Catholic communities and have been troubled by civil conflicts, which will increase concerns about the pope's security during the visits. File photo Image by: TONY GENTILE / REUTERS Pope Francis will visit Africa for the first time in November, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, the Vatican said yesterday.

Residents paddle a boat past a traffic light in the flooded road in Joso, Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, Friday, Sept. 11, 2015. The sun came out a day after a raging river washed away houses and forced people to rooftops as dozens of residents were airlifted out by military helicopters Friday morning after waiting overnight in the city. (Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY (Associated Press) Houses lean forward, knocked partially off their foundations. The worst-hit are gone, their still-intact blue-tiled roofs left sitting on debris-strewn mud. The floodwaters have receded somewhat, but a vast area of the Japanese city of Joso remains inundated by a sea of brown water.

Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has threatened to make life difficult for those who have grabbed school land in the state. Addressing members of the state chapters of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), who staged a peaceful procession to Government House Kaduna in support of President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti corruption war yesterday ,

Comptroller-General of Customs Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd), officially resumed his position on Thursday. The new Customs boss stated that President Muhammadu Buhari assigned him to do three basic things in the service. During his maiden meeting with the management of the service in Abuja, Ali listed the three mandates as;

President of the Republic of Togo, Faure Esossimna Gnassingbe (left) and President Muhammadu Buhari during the Togolese President’s working visit to Nigeria for bilateral discussions held at the Presidential Villa Abuja yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari says Boko Haram insurgents have been isolated, saying this is already giving peace a chance to reign.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has relaxed the embargo earlier imposed on some 113 vessels from engaging in crude oil/gas loading activities in any of the terminals in Nigeria. The NNPC in a statement issued Thursday night stressed that their decision to lift the embargo was due to the receipt of Letters of Comfort from all terminal operators, oil companies and off-takers of Nigerian oil and gas as guarantee that nominated vessels, pending the outcome of detailed investigation, were unencumbered and would not be utilised for any illegal activity whatsoever.

The Federal government has dispatched a high-powered technical team to the University of Lagos site, where a 300 level Accounting student, Oluchi Anekwe was electrocuted. The technical team, led by Engr. Peter Ewesor of Nigeria Electricity Management Services Limited, (NEMSL) has arrived Lagos State and now on ground to commence its findings.

Nigerian soldiers| credits: File copy  Soldiers of the One Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, Kaduna, have killed no fewer than 10 suspected terrorists in various joint operations code-named, “Operation Restore Peace II” in the North-West zone of the country.

Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor is finally part of Team Nigeria’s athletes at the on-going All Africa Games in Congo. Yakmut assures athletes of Presidential reward, as last batch departs THE last batch of Team Nigeria for the on-going All Africa Games in Congo left Abuja yesterday, with assurance by the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) that sprinter, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, would link up with the team in Brazzaville.