Year: 2013
Nigerians In Diaspora Hail Super Eagles
Nigerians across the world have been praising the feat of the Super Eagles at the just concluded Africa Cup of…
Lagos To Recruit Coaches For Sports Associations
In its bid to consolidate on the success recorded at the last National Sports Festival, Lagos State Government is set…
Deaflympics: Nigeria To Invite 35 Players To Camp
No fewer than 35 players have been invited to the Nigeria Deaf Football Team ahead of the Deaflympics slated for…
Tennis: Dearth Of Tourneys Worries Local Players
After watching helplessly as Nigerian tennis players were thrown out of the Governor’s Cup by their better-equipped foreign counterparts last…
North Korea’s nuclear test rattles Obama
North Korea’s nuclear blast thrust President Barack Obama into an alarming new overseas crisis Tuesday, at the moment he hoped…
Uganda deports British gay theatre producer
Uganda has deported a British theatre producer who last year staged a play about homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda,…
Mba, Nigeria’s soccer hero seeks a place in Europe
Nigeria’s unlikely hero in the final of the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Sunday Mba, has said he hopes he…
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Keshi remains Coach of Nigeria’s Eagles
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has withdrawn his resignation after he guided the country’s team to a third Africa Cup of…
3 journalists arrested over killing of polio vaccinators
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Three staff of the Kano station of Wazobia FM have been arrested by the Nigerian police over what…
Tinubu: APC Will Succeed
Nigeria’s major opposition party revved up efforts to ensure a seamless merger of their various structures on Monday as former…
Shooting at US courthouse leaves three dead: police – Lead
A shooting erupted at a courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware Monday, leaving three people dead, including a gunman, police said. “I…
Nigeria police blames Boko Haram for attack on Kano Emir
Police in Nigeria’s Kano state said Monday that militants from Boko Haram were behind last month’s attack on the Emir…
Nigeria slashes cost of business registration
Nigeria’s Trade and Investment Minister Olusegun Aganga has approved the downward review of the cost of business registration at the…
Jonathan in talks with Cameron over ‘blood oil’ and Mali
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan visited 10 Downing Street in London today to hold talks with British Prime Minister, David Cameron…
Football, Headlines, News, Sports, World News
Nigeria’s coach Keshi resigns?
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi may have resigned from his job after leading the Super Eagles to their first Africa Nations…
Ajimobi restores Bodija-Secretariat Bridge
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Nigeria’s western state of Oyo today reopened the reconstructed Secretariat-Bodija Bridge in Ibadan with…
JTF Hands over 18 Oil Thieves to EFCC
The Joint Task Force, JTF of 4 Brigade Nigerian Army, Benin has handed over 18 suspected oil thieves to the…
Politician to be arraigned for impersonation
A Nigerian politician and an aspirant to the National Assembly as senator, Alhaji Abdulazeez Bello will soon be arraigned by…
Suspected Terrorists’ Bid To Abort Trial Collapses
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian Federal High Court siting in Abuja on Monday held that six suspected Boko Haram…
Serena closes gap on Azarenka, Djokovic in comfort zone
World number one Victoria Azarenka of Belarus has seen her lead over American Serena Williams shrink to just 55 points…
Bookmakers tip Arinze as next Pope
Cardinal Francis Arinze of Nigeria, Peter Turkson of Ghana and Marc Ouellet of Canada were among the cardinals hotly tipped…
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Arik Air to fly African Champions Super Eagles home
Africa’s new football champions, Nigeria’s Super Eagles will arrive in Abuja from Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday at about 1:00…
Atuche: Court summons officials of Keystone Bank
Henry Ojelu A Nigerian High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos today issued a subpoena on Keystone Bank Plc (formerly Bank…
JKF AT 48: The Music Has Just Begun
By Olayinka Oyebode In a recent encounter with journalists during an inspection of projects in some parts of Ado-Ekiti, the…
How Far Can APC Go?
Opposition parties in the country fuse into one party, All Progressive Congress, with which they hope to break the dominance…
Seeking Justice
Seventeen employees curiously booted out of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, after training and receiving salaries, cry for…
My Agenda As SEC Board Boss
Suleyman Abdu Ndanusa is the chairman of the recently inaugurated board of the Securities and Exchange Commission. In this interview…
Senator Ojudu: Why Nigeria Is Not Progressing
Senator Babafemi Ojudu tells AYORINDE OLUOKUN and DESMOND UTOMWEN about his frustration as a legislator and why Nigeria finds it…
Dickson: We Are Changing Bayelsa
Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State will be one year in office on 14 February 2013. In this interview…
‘Nigerians Must Reject Constitutional Amendment’
The seventh Beko Memorial Anniversary Symposium held in honour of the late human rights activist, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, has afforded…