Garcia Quits FIFA Position

FIFA World Cup report: Michael Garcia, the lawyer in the eye of the storm; FIFA's ethics investigator Michael Garcia has resigned (Photo: The Guardian)

US lawyer Michael Garcia has resigned as FIFA's independent ethics investigator after losing his appeal challenging the findings to clear Russia and Qatar to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

Former Agric Minister: The Many Lies Of Adesina – TheCable

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, Minister, Federal Ministry of Agriculture

BY ADAMU BELLO

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored – Aldous Huxley

I have decided to put on record the authentic performance of the Agricultural sector of the Nigerian economy from the year 2000 to 2013. 

Mass HIV/AIDS Outbreak Spreads Panic In Cambodia Village

Reuters / Samrang Pring

More than 80 people, including elderly, women and children, have tested positive for HIV/AIDS infection in a small village in Cambodia, authorities confirmed. The infection may have been caused by medics re-using needles during treatment.

Pakistan Revokes Ban On Death Penalty After Taliban School Siege

A mother mourns her son Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at her house in Peshawar December 16, 2014 (Reuters / Zohra Bensemra)

After the bloody Taliban attack on an army-ran school that left 132 students and nine teachers dead, Pakistan intends to relinquish its moratorium on death penalty.

Kenya: Building Collapses, Search For Survivors

Medical personnel with a stretcher wait as rescue workers dig through the rubble at the scene of a building collapse in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)

A Kenyan rescue official says a number of people are feared trapped or dead after a five-story residential building collapsed in downtown Nairobi.

APC VP NOMINATION: Amaechi Loses Out As Buhari Settles For Osinbajo - TheCable

Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has picked Yemi Osinbajo, former attorney-general of Lagos state, as his running mate.

Oil Price Slump Will Not Ground Lagos Economy — Fashola

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Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has on Tuesday disclosed that the continuous fall in crude oil price at the international market will not ground the Lagos State economy.

NIGERIANS EXPORTING CRIME: Nigerians In South Africa And Gun Violence - By Chiedu Okoye

When designers first started planning the massive Orlando Power Station in Soweto, Johannesburg’s largest township, they had no idea that it would become one of the most recognizable landmarks in South Africa. Originally intended to meet the massive electricity demands of the controversial township, the two large cooling towers that came to define it were for more than 50 years white and drab. It wasn’t until after the plant was decommissioned that this important site came to life. (Photo: landlopers.com)

Nigeria is called the giant of Africa. But is Nigeria truly the giant of Africa? Perhaps, Nigeria is the potential giant of Africa with clay feet and spindly legs. We have the potentialities to make Nigeria the greatest and biggest economy in Africa; but clueless, visionless, inept, and corrupt leadership has continued to hinder our national growth. 

PHOTOS: HENRY RETIRES - Thierry Henry Quits Soccer, Transits To Football Punditry

Graceful, agile and deadly accurate in front of goal

Thierry Henry has brought an end to his illustrious playing career by announcing his retirement from professional football. The former Arsenal striker left New York Red Bulls at the end of the MLS season and he will now take up a position at Sky Sports as a pundit. The French forward joins Sky's already strong line-up of analysts including Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher and Jamie Redknapp.

DOPING IN ATHLETICS: Two Kenyan Runners Banned For Doping

Kenyan women's third placed, Chelengat Viola Kimetto, crosses the finish line of the 30th Athens Classic Marathon at the Athens Panathenaen stadium on November 11, 2012 ©Louisa Gouliamaki (AFP)

Kenyan marathon runners Viola Kimetto and Joyce Kiplimo have been banned for two years for doping, Athletics Kenya (AK) said Tuesday.

APC Meeting Deadlocked Over Choice Of VP Candidate

APC leaders during the National Convention in Lagos last week (Photo credit: Sahara Reporters Media)

National leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) party have hit a deadlock at the Rivers State government lodge in Abuja in a meeting convened to choose a Vice Presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential election.

Vienna May Shut Down Controversial Saudi School

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Vienna's Board of Education has ordered for a school owned by the Saudi government to stop operating by the end of the year, after it failed to provide a full list of its staff to authorities. The institution previously came under fire for its curriculum.

130 Killed By Taliban In Pakistan Army School Seizure

Rescue workers and family members carry the coffin of a student, who killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, in Peshawar, December 16, 2014. (Reuters/Khuram Parvez)

At least 130 people, most of them students as young as 12, have been killed and at least 122 others injured in a Taliban seizure of a military-run school in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan, according to provincial authorities.

Oil Workers’ Strike: FG, Labour Meet As Workers Shut Operations

Fuel sold in black market (Photo: Vanguard.com)

The Federal Government will today meet leaders of striking oil workers and other stakeholders in the petroleum sector in a bid to end the industrial action before it worsens the fuel supply and aggravate other socio-economic indicators in the country.

GLO-CAF AWARDS: Soweto Gospel Choir, Flavour, Other Stars To Perform

Soweto Gospel Choir: Songs of Hope

Notable music stars across the African continent are billed to entertain guests at the 2014 Glo-CAF Awards which holds in Lagos on January 8, 2015.

Tens Of Thousands Dead In South Sudan Conflict: UN

In this Sunday Dec. 29, 2013 photo, displaced people gather around a water truck to fill containers at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Tens of thousands of people have died in South Sudan during one year of warfare and the country's leaders are putting their "personal ambitions" ahead of the young nation's future, the U.N. secretary-general said Monday.

PHOTOS - Brazil Olympics: Super-Bacteria Found In Rio Sea Waters

The world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue can be seen from the sailing courses

Researchers in Brazil have discovered a drug-resistant bacteria in the sea waters where sailing and windsurfing events will be held during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Kwara Varsity Sets Up Committee For Study Of Nollywood

Prof. AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, Vice-Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has inaugurated a committee to see to the establishment of the Centre for Nollywood Studies at the university.

Ebola-Hit Liberia Delays Election Until Weekend

Liberian politician and ex-footballer George Weah speaks during a meeting in Monrovia on November 20, 2014 before the opening of political campaign activities for senatorial elections ©Zoom Dosso (AFP)

A much-postponed election for half the seats in Ebola-hit Liberia's Senate has been put back until the weekend -- but cannot be further delayed, the country's electoral commission said Monday.

No Passengers, No Planes: ‘Ghost’ Airports Of Europe

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Across crisis-stricken Europe ‘ghost’ airports have freshly painted tarmac, shiny new doors and all the nuts and bolts in place - but no passengers and no airplanes, giving them an eerie aura.