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From the swept, gelled black hair to the natural pose on camera, Cristiano Ronaldo junior is the spitting image of his famous father.  Ronaldo senior posted the family picture to his Instagram page on Thursday evening, smiling next to his six-year-old boy.

It will be Lionel Messi versus Antoine Griezmann as holders Barcelona have been drawn with 10-times winners Atletico Madrid in the Copa del Rey semi-finals while Celta Vigo will play Alaves in the other tie.

The 2006-07 season was a simpler time in English football. Manchester United were on their way to a ninth title in 15 years, Liverpool would make the Champions League final and Bolton, Reading, Portsmouth and Blackburn would all finish in the top half of the Premier League table.

Alvaro Morata has moved to end any speculation that he is set to leave Real Madrid for the second time in his career.  The Real youth product rejoined Zinedine Zidane's side last summer, having been allowed to leave for Juventus previously, where he became one of the most feared strikers in Europe.

West Ham have won the race to sign Robert Snodgrass in a £10million deal from Hull City. The Tigers had also accepted a bid from Burnley but West Ham convinced Snodgrass the London Stadium was the best place to further his career and the midfielder passed a medical on Friday.

Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye remains the General Overseer, Worldwide of The Redeemed Christian Church of God.

ABUJA – Despite the huge sum of money earmarked in the constitution on annual basis for the welfare of President Muhammadu Buhari and his family, his wife, Aisha has said that the provision of healthy food for her children was her personal responsibility.

LAGOS, Nigeria -- West African leaders will make a decision Saturday on how to resolve Gambia's electoral crisis and its longtime leader's refusal to accept defeat in elections, Nigeria's presidential spokesman said Friday. A military intervention led by Senegal could be in the offing.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Enoch Adeboye, stepped down as head of the church in Nigeria in line with a proposed Corporate Governance Code in Nigeria, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

Leadership matters in the development of nations. Today, Aliko Dangote is worth less than half of what he was worth under former President Jonathan. He was worth $25 billion in 2014 and is now worth $12.4 billion today! Listen to the words spoken by Aliko Dangote about President Jonathan on Friday the 6th of September, 2013 in Nairobi while speaking to the political and business elite of Kenya-“As you all know, without good policies of government, there is no way a person like me from a big town like Kano can rise from a humble beginning to become the 25th richest person on earth.”

The Yobe Government on Saturday said plans had been put in place to close the last Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in the state. Alhaji Musa Jidawa, Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), said this in Damaturu in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Thursday inaugurated a new board that will oversee the Nigeria Women Football League, and charged its members to work with passion and commitment to lift the women’s League to a new pedestal.

Algeria international and Leicester City forward Riyad Mahrez won the biggest award of the night at the CAF Awards as he was named Best Player on the continent for the year 2016.

Nigeria international and Arsenal ladies striker Asisat Oshoala was named the 2016 African Female Footballer of the Year at the Glo CAF Awards ceremony in Abuja on Thursday.

Nigeria internationals Alex Iwobi and Kelechi Iheanacho were among stars of the round leather game that were recognized at the 2016 CAF Awards ceremony on Thursday night.

Barcelona made a horrifying start to 2017 with a 2-1 defeat on Thursday to Athletico Bilbao in the Copa del Rey.

Super Eagles’ captain John Obi Mikel has confirmed his move to Chinese Super League club Tainjin TEDA in an open letter to Chelsea fans.

“The man dies in him who keeps silent in the face of tyranny” -Wole Soyinka By Remi Oyeyemi… From Lagos Island to Lake Chad; Calabar to Sokoto, Ilaje Ese-Odo to Yola and Port-Harcourt via Abuja to Kano, tyranny has surged in the land called Nigeria.

Nigeria and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, lost more than N100 billion within the five-hour trading session at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday as the shares of his main business, Dangote Cement Plc, came under intense selloff.

In a bid to stay in the good books of the European Union (EU), Nigeria has agreed to reduce import duties for about 170 items by various percentages, ranging from 10 to zero with effect from January 2017.

Threats by the management of a major oil firm in Nigeria, Total Oil, may have made the firm incur the wrath of its workers, leading to a total shut down of all offices and production depots nationwide.

The intended closure of Abuja Airport for repairs on its runways in March by the Federal Government has been described as unnecessary by Airline Operators of Nigeria.

Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has frowned at the failure of Nigerian Police to make public the communication an All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain and a former commissioner had with the killers of a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mohammed Alkali.

Leader of Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to stop giving the impression that he is still looking for the right people to dialogue with for peace in the Niger Delta oil region. He said the President must have a rethink and put a team to negotiate with PANDEF as soon as possible because there is a limit to which the people of the region can wait, adding that the boys (militants) are impatient.

Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Justice Raja Khurram Ali Khan’s wife Maheen Zafar was granted interim bail on Tuesday for her part in confining and torturing ten-year-old Tayyaba, a child employed as a house maid at the judge’s residence. Not only that, but even after the substantial evidence of abuse, a sessions court court granted Tayyaba’s family her custody even after it seemed indifferent to the torture she went through.