North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il dies at 69.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died aged 69 of a heart attack, state media announced Monday, plunging the nuclear-armed, famine-ridden and deeply isolated nation into a second dynastic succession.

Eagles win Copa Lagos.

Nigeria’s Sand Eagles on Sunday beat their Brazilian counterparts, Reis da Praia (Kings of the Beach) to emerge champions of the 2011 Copa Lagos Beach Soccer.

Barcelona wins Club World Cup, beats Santos 4-0.

Lionel Messi grabbed a classy brace as the “artists” of Barcelona out-classed the Brazilians Santos 4-0 to lift the Club World Cup Sunday and confirm their status as the best team on the planet.

Fuel subsidy removal, insecurity: Anarchy looms, say leaders of thought.

SOME leaders of thought in the country, yesterday, reviewed the rising wave of instability and insecurity in the country, government’s insistence on removing fuel subsidy as well as the delay in restructuring the polity and returned a damning verdict: anarchy looms!

FG halts retirement of non-teaching university staff aged 60.

IN a move to prevent the non-academic staff in the nation’s universities from joining the ongoing strike by the academic staff, the Federal Government has directed vice-chancellors to stop retrenching non-academic staff of universities at the age of 60 pending passage of the bill by the National Assembly and assent by the President.

FIFA Club World Cup: Esperance fans run wild in Japan.

Qatar’s Al Sadd will play Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup after the Asian champions stunned Esperance of Tunisia 2-1 on Sunday, sparking fan violence and a pitch invasion.