Year: 2012
Kicking Racism On And Off The Pitch
By Farai Sevenzo For those of us who love to procrastinate, watching football is the ultimate task-interfering cognition – and…
Understanding Igbo-Yoruba Unhealthy Rivalry (3)
By Abdul-Rahoof A. Bello The Nigerian infant nationhood was threatened especially when political leaders in the opposition became the object…
Don’t Reward Terrorists
The plan by the Federal Government to compensate Boko Haram for all the atrocities it has committed is a great…
VENEZUELA TIE: Ezeugo Warns Keshi
As the home-based Super Eagles get set to hit Miami, USA for the 14 November friendly against Venezuela, former defender…
Falcons’ll Defeat South Africa —Odey
Former Super Falcons assistant coach, Rolandson Odey has tipped the Super Falcons to beat South-Africa’s Bayana Bayana when they meet…
Adeyinka, Fashola Relish Table Tennis Gold
A student of Yaba College of Technology, Ahmed Adeyinka defeated Badejo Bambo of the Federal College of Fisheries & Marine…
National Sports Festival: Team Anambra Bank On Igbo Support
The Anambra State Commissioner for Sports and Youth Development, Edozie Aroh says Team Anambra will enjoy the support of Igbo…
My Mother Taught Me Tennis
Number four ranked South African tennis player and winner of Futures 1 Men’s Doubles at the recently concluded Governor’s Cup…
‘No Date For PH Open’
Secretary of Nigeria Tennis Federation, NTF, Ikana Mbora, has said that this year’s Port-Harcourt Open is not likely to hold…
Firms Short-change Consumers —CPC
The Consumer Protection Council, CPC, has uncovered irregularities in the packaging of some products in the country. In a recent…
Lagos Trade Fair: Dangote Group Crashes Price Of Products
As part of strategies to expand market share and reach more customers, companies under the Dangote Group at the ongoing…
3 Companies Endorse Nigerian Financial Technology Awards
In a bid to take the financial technology industry to greater height while ensuring the entrenchment of global best practice,…
Ogunsanya Becomes Airtel’s CEO
Bharti Airtel has announced the appointment of Mr. Segun Ogunsanya as the Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Networks Ltd, Nigeria…
Soldiers on patrol after bombs, gunfire rock Gashua
Explosions and gunfire rocked the prison town of Gashua in Yobe state early today, with soldiers deployed to maintain the…
Panasonic Unveils New Product Lines
Panaserv Nigeria Limited, authorised service agents for Panasonic consumer electronics products in Nigeria, in conjunction with Panasonic Corporation, Japan unveiled…
Decision Day for Obama, Romney
Washington (AFP) Americans today decide whether to re-elect President Barack Obama despite a plodding economy or to trust Mitt Romney…
Sheila Solarin: A Personal Testimony
By Akin Adesokan Sheila Solarin, co-founder of the imaginative Mayflower School at Ikenne, who passed away last 20 October at…
Obama, Romney tie in first US ballot
DIXVILLE NOTCH, New Hampshire (AFP) – The first ballots of the 2012 White House race were cast in the tiny…
Mile high skyscraper planned as monument for equator
QUITO (AFP) – Not far from Ecuador’s capital, tourists flock to a line etched in the ground and straddle it…
Supreme Court decides Nyako’s fate 20 November
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Supreme Court on Monday fixed November 20, 2012 to deliver judgment in an appeal brought…
Bruce Springsteen wins votes for Obama
Bruce Springsteen said Tuesday’s US election was a vote on narrowing the gulf between the American Dream and reality as…
363 die in Nigeria’s worst floods
Flooding in Nigeria since July has killed 363 people and displaced 2.1 million in what the president has called an…
Jonathan Asks Amaechi, Dickson End Media War
President Goodluck Jonathan has asked the Bayelsa and Rivers State government to stop the ongoing accusations and counter-accusations in the…
Suspected ritualist held for removing boy’s eyes
The police in Matari area of Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, have arrested a suspected ritualist, Tukur Adamu, for allegedly plucking…
100 Biafran Zionists Arrested
The police in Enugu on Monday arrested at least 100 people parading themselves as members of the Biafra Zionist Movement.…
Terrorism Trial: Court rejects witnesses against Ndume
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The ongoing trial of a serving senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria before an Abuja…
Police Arraign Bizman For N.4m beefy fraud
The police on Monday docked a 30-year old businessman, Isiaka Ayinla, before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly receiving…
King’s College ’78 Set To Embark On Peace Tour
Members of the 1973-1978 set of King’s College, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, reunited in Calabar, Cross River State, southsouth Nigeria, over…
Achebe’s Biafra Book Full Of Lies
Odia Ofeimun, poet and public affairs analyst, rips up Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country. He speaks with ADEMOLA ADEGBAMIGBE…
The Harmattan Of A Patriarch
By Tade Ipadeola Professor Chinua Achebe has made a new book of a very eventful life. It is his most…