Chris Giwa... The New NFF President

Chairman of Nigeria Professional League club Giwa FC, Christopher Giwa as emerged the new president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), folloeing an election at the NFF headquarters in Abuja this week.

Giwa polled 27 votes to defeat his fellow contestant, former vice president - Mike Umeh, who got two votes in an election where 29 out of 44 members participated in the voting exercise.

Jonathan cuts short AU engagement to visit Emab bomb site

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, visited Emab Plaza in central Abuja where a bomb blast killed at least 21 people on Wednesday - with the attack blamed on Boko Haram.

Jonathan, who reportedly cut short an African Union engagement to meet victims, later went to a hospital where victims were being treated.