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NIGERIA'S Super Eagles have managed to settle into the ongoing Confederations Cup despite the recent travel and bonus drama surrounding the team with a laboured 6-1 win over South Pacific minnows Tahiti.

TURKISH giants Galatasaray are reported to have offered Chelsea £18m for the services of Super Eagles midfielder Mikel Obi as they seek to prize him away to Istanbul ahead of the forthcoming season.

TARABA State governor Danbaba Suntai has been discharged from hospital in the US where he was undergoing treatment for brain damage and is expected to return to his duties in Nigeria soon.

HARDLINERS within the Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) national working committee (NWC) are pushing for the expulsion of governors Rotimi Amaechi and Aliyu Wamakko from the party.

NIGERIA'S aviation authorities have generated a total of N120m (£466,700) from the sale of disused planes at the country's airports under a clean-up programme initiated to dispose of abandoned aircrafts.

SECURITY officials plan to begin the disarmament and de-radicalisation of repentant Boko Haram members as part of a programme to re-integrate them into society under the government's amnesty programme.

SPEAKER of the House of Representatives Aminu Tambuwal could be the next high profile member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to be suspended after it emerged party bosses are unhappy with his association with the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC).

BRACKET music sensation Nwachukwu Ozioko popularly known as Vast has been discharged from the UK hospital where he has been undergoing treatment for cancer.

GOVERNORS Rotimi Amaechi and Aliyu Wamakko have indicated that they may not appear before a peace panel set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to mediate in the crisis currently rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

LIVERPOOL have stepped up negotiations with Sporting Lisbon to sign Nigerian-born centreback Abiola Ilori ahead of the forthcoming 1013/14 English Premiership season.