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(AFP) – Springboks coach Heyneke Meyer is worried about the poor form of fly-half Morne Steyn before the August kick-off of the new Rugby Championship. Leading 2011 Rugby World Cup points scorer Steyn missed 12 of 22 kicks at goal and several drop goal attempts during a 2-0 series victory over England with the third Test drawn 14-14 Saturday in ...

Less than 48 hours to the reported threat of the Boko Haram sect to make Sunday (today) the bloodiest day since they began bombing of major cities in the North, the Police in Abuja have issued new operational guidelines on strategic deployment of their personnel to places under violent attacks. It was gathered that churches, especially in the North and ...

The mood in Kaduna State, Northern Nigeria, looks calm, but inside many people here are tense and on edge. Every street is abandoned. Every business and school, closed. No newspapers are on sale at traffic junctions, and no sign of the many people that make a living hawking cheap goods when it’s a red light, or selling mobile phone scratch ...

The extremist Boko Haram sect, has denied media reports alleging that four of its members were arrested Friday, in Kano, attempting to bomb a Jumaat mosque at Fagge area of the metropolis. The group, in an statement sent to media houses Saturday, also accused the State Security Service, SSS, of orchestrating the plot in order to discredit it, describing such ...

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) on Saturday said Lagos would soon experience a seven-day rainfall. Mr Abayomi Oyegoke of NIMET Central Forecast Unit, Oshodi, Lagos, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Oyegoke also said hat a total of 570 mm of rainfall had been recorded in Lagos State between January and June. He ...