Month: March 2014
Flamingoes Focus On U-17 World Cup Trophy —Chiejine
Flamingoes’ assistant coach, Ann Chiejine, has assured Nigerians they would not get distracted by the 100 percent success recorded and…
Keshi Not Worried About Criticism
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi says he is not letting criticism of his playing methods, selections and decisions affect him. He…
N47bn Theft: Akingbola Challenges Court Jurisdiction
Henry Ojelu Former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Dr Erastus Akingbola, today challenged the jurisdiction of a Lagos High…
Missing MH370 Malaysian Plane Came Down In Indian Ocean, Says PM
The missing Malaysia Airlines jet came down in the Indian Ocean, Prime Minister Najib Razak said Monday, as the airline…
Boko Haram: Nigerian Students Protest In U.S.
A group of Nigerian students protested outside the Mountainlair on Sunday against the Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria. Boko…
National Confab: Delegates Queue For Hours To Enter Venue
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja with NAN Delegates to the ongoing National Conference on Monday in Abuja queued for about two hours before…
Ezekwesili, Kumuyi Charge Youths On Character Development
Kazeem Ugbodaga Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, and the General Superintendent, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, have…
One Week, One Tragedy
By Chido Onumah It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives…
NIS Recruitment Tragedy: The Blame Game Continues
By Joe Igbokwe The Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Abba Moro is supposed to be the first person to throw in the…
Gender Equality: Ogun Keeps Faith With MDGs
By Sakirudeen Bashiru The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were drawn in 2000 to galvanize the efforts of about 193 countries…
Between Abdullahi And Danagogo
When former Sports Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission (NSC), Bolaji Abdullahi, was removed from office recently and replaced by…
Ebola virus not in Conakry
Guinea announced on Monday that samples taken from three suspected cases of Ebola, which led to two deaths in the…
Nigeria’s Flamingoes book q/final showdown with Spain
Nigeria defeated Mexico with a deserved 3-0 scoreline to leapfrog their opponents at the top of Group D and set…
Nokia delays handset sale to Microsoft
Finnish telecom company Nokia on Monday said the sale of its handset business to US technology giant Microsoft would be…
Messi treble sees Barca past Real Madrid in 7goal thriller
Barcelona moved to within a point of Real Madrid at the top of La Liga as they twice came from…
Egypt: 529 Morsi supporters sentenced to death
A court in Egypt on Monday sentenced 529 supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death after a mass…
Police probe Nigerian house of horror
Nigerian police said they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned…
APC wins 6 LGAs, PDP 4 in Nasarawa poll
The Nasarawa State Independent Electoral Commission (NASIEC) has released the results of Saturday’s local government elections, with the PDP winning…
Nigerians topple Russians as third biggest spenders in UK
Nigerians accounted for four percent of shopping in the United Kingdom in February, spending an average of 628 pounds per…
Experts warn over Nigeria’s ‘viagra drinks’
Nike Ajibade and three of her colleagues sit on a Lagos pavement with small plastic bottles of liquids tucked inside…
Sierra Leone bids farewell to Tejan Kabbah
Thousands of Sierra Leoneans gathered under a tropical sun in Freetown’s national stadium on Sunday to pay their last respects…
Suspect Knocks Down EFCC Operative
An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde,has been knocked down by a Honda Accord…
20 die in Bama market bomb
Suspected Boko Haram militants detonated a bomb in a crowded marketplace in a village near Bama,Borno state, northeastern Nigeria killing…
Nigeria budgets $1billion to fight oil theft
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Sunday at The Hague that the Federal Government has earmarked one billion U.S Dollars for…
Nadal hammers Hewitt, Sharapova survives
World number one Rafael Nadal hammered former number one Lleyton Hewitt 6-1, 6-3 Saturday to reach the third round at…
Reports: US spies on China’s telecom giant Huawei
The US National Security Agency has secretly tapped into the networks of Chinese telecom and internet giant Huawei, the New…
Ailing Algerian leader eyes 4th term in office
.Bouteflika says he is hearkening to the people’s wish Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika said Saturday his ailing health does not…
Serena moves to Miami third round, Wawrinka also
Serena Williams waited out a 45-minute rain interruption Saturday before defeating France’s Caroline Garcia 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 to advance at…
Tinubu says Amosun’s projects people-oriented
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…
Senator Oduoye dies
A former military administrator of Ebonyi state who later became a Nigerian Senator, Simeon Oduoye, is dead. He was aged…