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Crude pipelines have been shut-off in the eastern Chinese oil hub of Qingdao pending safety checks a day after a leak triggered a huge explosion that killed 47 people, a refinery official and state media said on Saturday. Qingdao is...

In my previous didactic, tart, and dispassionate polemic entitled “The Igbo False Dimension: The Igbo I Hate” I adumbrated, exposited and espoused the tendentious logic of vehement and sustained rise in Igbo criminality in Nigeria. The piece extracted venoms...

Everyone has an innate fault line-no doubt. One of mine is that I have an incurable penchant for engaging in intellectual conversations with female lawyers who bagged upper levels and/or distinction in their qualifying examinations in the Nigerian Law...

The World Bank country director for Nigeria, Marie-Francoise Marie-Nelly, earlier this month said that 63% or 100 million Nigerians were destitute, living below the poverty line. In her words, “1.2 billion people live in destitution (around the world) out...

Why is underclass revolution in the pressure cooker going to blow up in everyone’s face? The devils in disguise are hiding under ethnic loyalties. Since we encourage them with one heart, one mind and the only one life we...

England midfielder Michael Carrick has extended his contract with Manchester United, keeping him at the club until June 2015 with an option of a further year. Carrick has established himself as an integral part of the United team since joining...

Cristiano Ronaldo has insisted he is not obsessed with winning the Ballon d'Or for a second time in January despite a series of scintillating performances that have made him the strong favourite to win the award. Ronaldo scored his fifth...

Football clubs are aiming to get 40,000 more women and girls playing the sport with a new £2.4m grassroots scheme. Season-long coaching sessions will be aimed at 14-25-year-olds. The Football Association and Sport England are joining forces with the Premier League...

Sunderland head coach Gus Poyet says he must have the final word on the club's January transfer signings. The 46-year-old will work on player recruitment alongside Sunderland's director of football, Roberto De Fanti, and chief scout Valentino Angeloni. But Poyet, who...

The future of U.S. troops in Afghanistan remained in doubt on Friday after a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai rejected a U.S. call to sign a security pact by the end of the year rather than after next year's...