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Golf: Gallacher wins Dubai Desert Classic
Stephen Gallacher won the $2.5million (1.85million euros) Dubai Desert Classic on Sunday. Closing with a 72, for a 16-under total…
Education colleges teachers plan mass protests
The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) on Sunday threatened to embark on a mass demonstration very soon if…
CAF changes date, venue of Super Cup
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Sunday announced a change in the date of the 2014 CAF Super Cup…
Boko Haram kill Muslim couple, child and pastor
Nigeria’s Boko Haram was suspected Sunday of killing a popular Muslim cleric, his wife and child in the northern city…
Are the Obamas heading for divorce?
Is the 21-year old marriage of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, heading for the rocks? Speculations about the…
Gays in South Africa form party to contest polls
A new party that will defend gays and lesbians against violence and persecution will stand in South Africa’s elections this…
Keshi praises Super Eagles B team
Stephen Keshi, the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, on Saturday praised his players for being able to interpret his…
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Football: Libya are CHAN 2014 champions
Libya won their first continental tournament Saturday after beating Ghana in the African Nations Championship 4-3 on penalties when their…
Nigeria beat Zimbabwe for CHAN bronze medal
Taiwo Adelu Nigeria’s Super Eagles were able to settle for bronze medal of the 2014 African Nations Championship, CHAN, after…
Tennis: Switzerland edge Serbia for Davis Cup quarters
Switzerland sealed a Davis Cup quarter-final berth when a win in Saturday’s doubles gave them an unbeatable 3-0 lead over…
Valencia punish Barcelona at Camp Nou in thriller
Valencia inflicted Barcelona’s first league defeat at the Camp Nou since April 2012 as they came from behind to win…
Kano APC gets caretaker committee
Nigeria’s All Progressives Congress (APC), Kano chapter, on Saturday appointed a caretaker committee to oversee its affairs. The committee was…
Abiola’s wife joins 2015 race for Lagos governoship seat
Mrs Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, one of the wives of late Chief MKO Abiola, on Saturday declared that she would contest the…
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Nigerian with 107 Citi Bank cards arrested at Lagos airport
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent A 36-year old Nigerian, with two different international passports, has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International…
English clubs splash $206mn on players, Berbatov joins Monaco
The January transfer window closed at 2300 GMT on Friday with English Premier League clubs having spent in excess of…
Malaysia angry over detention of parents for beating child
Malaysia’s prime minister on Saturday offered help to a Muslim couple detained in Sweden for hitting their son, in a…
Italian police recover Pope John Paul’s relic
Italian police have recovered part of a religious relic stained with Polish pope John Paul II’s blood that was thrown…
Opinion: Compulsive Stealing Syndrome (CSS)
By Dr. Peregrino Brimah Have you ever asked a friend for financial assistance and he said he couldn’t oblige, then…
Pirated books worth N4.7bn seized in Lagos
Pirated books worth N4.7 billion, about $300million were impounded at the ports in Lagos last year, the Zonal Manager, Lagos…
pmnewsnigeria.com comes under brutal attack
The management of pmnewsnigeria.com wishes to inform loggers to our site that the difficulties they have been experiencing in accessing…
GE to invest $350mn in Nigeria’s power sector
General Electric has signed a deal with a Nigerian bank to invest $350 million in Nigeria’s ailing power sector, the…
Cannabis: Malaysia arrests French woman, 4 others
A French woman and four others detained in Malaysia on suspicion of growing cannabis could face the death penalty after…
Nigerian village shaken by religious violence
Kaduna state governor, Mukhtar Yero has visited a village in the southern part of the state, shaken by the latest…
In Video: Helen Paul, a.k.a Tatafo jokes on Nigeria’s anti-gay law
Nigerian comedienne Helen Paul, also known as Tatafo on radio, sublimely cracks a joke on the recent ban on same-sex…
Lagos sets the pace in issuing e-C of O
Lagos State has set the pace in Nigeria, being the first state to issue an electronic certificate of occupancy to…
Mu’azu meets with IBB, Aliyu
The PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on Friday held a closed-door meeting with former Military President Ibrahim Babangida in…
3 kidnapped Indians rescued in Nigeria
Nigeria’s State Security Services, SSS said on Friday that it has rescued three Indian hostages kidnapped in Rivers State recently.…
Golf: McIlroy ahead in Dubai, Woods 4 strokes back
Rory McIlroy shrugged off a wayward start to his second round at the $2.5million Dubai Desert Classic on Friday to…
Nigerian Navy arrests hijacked ship
The Nigerian Navy has intercepted a Greek-owned merchant tanker, MT KERALA, purportedly hijacked off the coast of Luanda after `spirited…
Nigerian on way to China arrested with cannabis
Simon Ateba/aviation correspondent A thirty-two year old cell phone dealer at Computer Village in Lagos, western Nigeria, has been arrested…