Year: 2012
Brazilian Institute To Train Nigerian Coaches
The Brazilian Football Institute, BFUT, has partnered a Nigerian sports outfit, Alade Sports, in an effort to train Nigerian coaches…
Promasidor Parasoccer Tourney Holds This Easter
Defending champions, TC Terrors, last year’s runners up, Leads United and six other teams have signified their interest in the…
Basketball Is Growing In Nigeria
Efie Ozaka is the Team Manager of Royal Hoopers Basketball Club of Port Harcourt, who won the league trophy last…
Shakara Int’l Organises ‘Basketball For Peace’
Basketball players in Lagos State and its environs now have an opportunity to harness their skills in the sport, as…
FIBA Launches 3×3 World Tour
Federation of International Basketball Association, FIBA, has officially announced the first ever FIBA 3×3 World Tour to be held in…
Barca Deserved 3 Points At Mallorca —Pique
After taking the three points from the complicated match against Mallorca (0-2), the Barça players are keen on making a…
Raul Offered New Contract At Schalke
Schalke CEO Clemens Tonnies has said that he is waiting for Raul’s answer to the club’s offer of a new…
Platt Defends Mancini
Manchester City assistant manager, David Platt, defended Roberto Mancini after the Italian refused to carry out his media duties following…
Dealing With The Plight Of Physically Challenged Children In Nigeria —Mamud Hassan
Oxford dictionary defines disabled as people with a permanent illness or injury that makes it difficult for them to use…
The Vampire Called Corruption —Ben Nanaghan
Corruption tipped the scale above other subjects on my preference list this past week. This is because it is becoming…
Clampdown On Illegal Aliens
Last weekend, security agencies alerted residents of Lagos State that they are keeping a tab on illegal aliens in the…
Elvis Chuk’s True Citizens Set For Cinema
Elvis Chuks’ all-star movie, True Citizens, is set to hit the cinemas on Good Friday, 6 April, 2012. Lovers of…
Controversies Trail AGN Election, As Stella Damasus Steps Down
The election of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), which has been thrice postponed, has eventually been scheduled to hold…
Pirates Batter Yoruba Actor
Popular Yoruba actor, producer and director, Ibrahim Chatta, is currently receiving treatment in a private hospital after he was attacked…
Arewa Onijogbon Out Soon
Actress Tayo Sobola has concluded plans to debut as a producer with the flick Arewa Onijongbon. The Olabisi Onabanjo University…
Ajimobi Approves N19,987 Minimum Wage For Oyo Workers
The face-off between civil servants in Oyo state, southwest Nigeria, and state government ended Monday as Governor Abiola Ajimobi approved…
Bizwoman abducted in Nigeria’s oil rich city
The proprietor of De Clemcy Nigeria Limited, Mrs Chinasa Ngokere was abducted on Sunday in Eket, Akwa Ibom, by yet…
Commission Prepares For World Safety Day
The Lagos State Safety Commission, LSC, is putting finishing touches to this week’s World Safety Day, with the theme: Promoting…
Adefulire Launches Young Commonwealth Competition Project
Lagos State Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has launched the Young Commonwealth Competition and Project Do Something Positive for Nigeria. This…
Bone Treatment: Doctor Dismisses Traditional Treatment
A physician said orthodox method was the only recognised medical approach for the treatment of accident victims with broken bones…
Macky Sall: Senegal’s New Face
Macky Sall’s political career appeared to have peaked under Abdoulaye Wade, where after serving as prime minister he fell from…
Polytech teacher abducted in Nigeria
A senior lecturer with Auchi Polytechnic in Edo state,Nigeria, Mr Moses Egbape, has been abducted by gunmen at his residence…
Tiger Woods back from the woods, wins again
Tiger Woods has ended his winless streak of the past 30 months by lifting the Arnold Palmer Invitational trophy, for…
Senegal: Wade routed by voters admits defeat
Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade has admitted election defeat as results gave an overwhelming lead to his rival Macky Sall, state…
CAF Tourney: Warri Wolves Draw Kallon
Nigeria’s Warri Wolves began their campaign in the 2012 CAF Confederation Cup on a goalless note at the National Stadium…
Flamingoes Book World Cup Ticket
Nigeria’s Flamingoes have booked their place in the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup slated for Azerbaijan. Nigeria’s ticket came…
World T/Tennis Tourney: Nigeria Male Team Win First Match
It was mixed fortune for Team Nigeria at the ongoing 2012 World Team Table Tennis Championship holding in Dortmund, Germany,…
Cisse Steers Newcastle Closer To Europe
Newcastle United moved to within five points of a place in next season’s Champions League after a 3-1 win away…
The coronation of Tukur as PDP chairman
Ayorinde Oluokun/ abuja Weeks of intrigues within Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP culminated in the expected outcome of the…
Nigeria’s ruling party picks new officers
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has emerged by consensus the new national chairman of the PDP, following the withdrawal of 10 other…