Month: August 2014
Israeli strikes kill senior Hamas commanders in Gaza
Israeli warplanes assassinated three top Hamas commanders in southern Gaza on Thursday, inflicting a heavy blow on the movement’s armed…
Two American Ebola patients leave hospital
Two American missionaries who were sickened with the dangerous Ebola virus while working in Liberia are doing better and have…
Liverpool set to sign Balotelli for £16million
Mario Balotelli was set for a shock move to Liverpool Thursday as AC Milan acknowledged that the controversial Italy striker…
Man behind Ice Bucket Challenge dies in diving accident
One of the individuals behind the Ice Bucket Challenge to support Lou Gehrig’s disease research has died in a diving…
Hodgson urges English talent to consider moving abroad
England manager Roy Hodgson has urged the country’s rising stars to consider spending some of their career abroad in a…
Boko Haram takes over town in Yobe
Boko Haram has seized control of a town in northeastern Nigeria, the latest to fall into Islamist hands in the…
U-20 Women’s World Cup: ‘Oshoala, The Heroine’
Head coach of Nigeria’s U-20 Women’s national team, Peter Dedevbo has singled out Asisat Oshoala as the star difference for…
Treating National Security Issues With Parochial, Selfish Passion
By Mac Durugbo Recently, the national dailies carried on their front pages the arrest of 486 suspected Boko Haram members…
The National Carrier Project
Many aviation analysts and stakeholders have posited that having a national carrier could be to the country’s advantage, if such…
‘My Husband Slept With My Best Friend’
A laboratory technician, Modupe Ajayi, on Wednesday told an Igando Customary Court, Lagos, that she once caught her husband in…
I’m Not Gay, Says BBA Winner
The 2010 winner of Big Brother Africa (BBA), Uti Nwachukwu, has said that he is neither gay nor in relationships…
Panic In Abuja Over Bomb-Laden Car
There was serious pandemonium in the Nyanya area of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital Thursday morning when a car suspected to be…
4 Killed As MASSOB Factions Clash
Four people were feared dead and many injured following a clash between factions of the Movement for the Actualization of…
Vincent Tan file sparks FA probe into Mackay
Malky Mackay appeared to be out of the running to take over at Crystal Palace after a file reportedly alleging…
Botswana police say no ‘foul play’ in opposition leader’s death
A Botswana police investigation has found the death of an opposition leader just months before a general election to be…