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Holders Real Madrid will meet local rivals Atletico Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, in a repeat of last season's final. Paris St-Germain's reward for beating Chelsea in the last 16 is a tie against Barcelona, the conquerors...

FIFA has announced it will distribute £142m to clubs as compensation for the release of players involved in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. FIFA, which has agreed the deal with the European Club Association (ECA) following the decision to...

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says he will retire from football when his spell with the club ends. The 63-year-old, who is contracted to United until 2017 after joining the club last summer, wants to spend more time with...

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved Amazon's plans to begin testing drones for online deliveries. The FAA said it had granted Amazon a certificate for people with pilot's licenses to test the unmanned aircraft. The drones must be flown...

Bolivia "chickened out" of a friendly in Nigeria because it feared an attack by the Boko Haram extremist group, the Nigerian Football Federation said on Thursday. In a statement on its website, the NFF said Bolivia's "excuses" for calling off...

A year after pledging jobs to families who lost loved ones during a deadly recruitment by the Nigeria Immigration, President Goodluck Jonathan finally, handed out money and appointment letters to the beneficiaries.   Mr. Jonathan gave N75 million (N5million to each...

The most frightening and most disturbing controversy since the build-up to the 2015 elections had been the rumoured removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega,  beforeMarch 28 presidential poll. The rumour was like a thunderbolt...

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were...

I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name "government" is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals to mindlessly loot the resources of the larger collectivity.   This argument has been eloquently...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The last of Reagan Uformba’s colleagues in his faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) last Friday formally collapsed their structures into Alex Otti’s gubernatorial campaign at Osisioma on the outskirts of Aba,...