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Winning ugly no problem for Brazil
Brazil striker Neymar has admitted he is happy to win ugly as he looks to take another step towards delivering…
Federer, Djokovic braced for young and restless
Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic face young and restless Milos Raonic and Grigor Dimitrov for places in the Wimbledon final…
Saudi MERS: Philippines urges its Muslims to abort Hajj
The Philippines urged its large Muslim minority on Thursday to reconsider plans to join pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia this year…
Student Unionism Has Been Destroyed
Sanai Agunbiade, the lawmaker representing Ikorodu Constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly has become one whose contributions…
Farming More Lucrative Than Banking
When Prince Lanre Ettu left banking for farming, his friends questioned his decision. They thought he had made a costly…
FAAN shuts Abuja Airport for three days
Simon Ateba The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, said on Wednesday that the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International…
Ladipo wants Keshi to shun offers abroad
President of the Nigeria Football Supporters club, Rafiu Ladipo has pleaded with Super Eagle chief coach, Stephen Keshi to shun…
NFF May Offer Keshi Better Deal
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF may offer coach Stephen Keshi a better deal that will pay him seven million Naira…
How Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko Was Foiled 30 Years Ago
Thirty years ago, there was an attempt to kidnap a Nigerian minister, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who died in London on…
Engineering Student Jailed For Kidnapping
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba Ndudi Ogwu, an ND II Mechanical Engineering student of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has been convicted and sentenced…
Olu Of Ikeja Dies, markets shut down
Yisa Jamiu The Olu of Ikeja Kingdom, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, is dead. He was said…
Court Bailiff Faces Trial Over Pension Scam
Nnamdi Felix/Abuja Magistrate Oyeyipo of an Abuja Magistrates’ Court’s siting at Karu has fixed 25 Friday July, for the trial…
Arisekola’s Wife Killed In Auto Crash
Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan Barely a week after the death of the Aare Musulumi of Yoruba Land, Alhaji Arisekola Alao, one of…
Spanish princess appeals tax and fraud charges
Spanish King Felipe VI’s sister, Princess Cristina, appealed on Wednesday against tax and money-laundering charges that threaten to land her…
Taiwan’s Hon Hai pulls out of Huawei deal
Taiwan tech giant Hon Hai said Wednesday it has pulled out of a deal to buy 4G equipment from Huawei…
Top Jordan jihadist denounces IS caliphate
A leading Jordanian jihadist ideologist on Wednesday denounced the declaration of a “caliphate” by Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria,…
Police arrest 500 in Hong Kong protest
Hong Kong police arrested more than 500 protesters at a sit-in early Wednesday following a huge march that organisers said…
Blast rips through Osun, Kaduna, Borno killing scores
A bomb blast rocked Ile-Ife, Osun State, early Wednesday morning. The low small bomb went off in the Onipetu area…
Oscar Pistorius a ‘suicide risk’
Paralympian star Oscar Pistorius, on trial over the killing of his girlfriend, is suffering from post-traumatic stress and is a…
Facebook probed by Britain over mood experiment
British authorities will question Facebook over an experiment in which the social network secretly manipulated the feelings of users to…
Consumer education vital for product satisfaction – Airtel
Airtel Nigeria’s Director of Corporate Communications & CSR, Emeka Oparah, has identified consistent consumer education as strategic to ensuring customer…
Boat migrant death toll in Italy rises to 45
Rescuers recovering the bodies of migrants left to die in the suffocating hull of an overcrowded fishing boat said on…
French police clear 320 migrants from Channel camps
French police early Wednesday cleared a food handout centre and three squats in the port of Calais occupied by some…
Golden Eaglets off to Cairo for friendly
The national Under-17 team, Golden Eaglets would depart Abuja for Cairo on Wednesday for a two-tie international friendly match against…
W. African nations in crisis talks as Ebola spreads
Health ministers from across western Africa gathered on Wednesday to plan “drastic action” against the world’s deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic as…
Anambra hosts Gulder Ultimate Search XI
Funsho Arogundade The deep forest of the ancient Aguleri community in Anambra State will host the 11th edition of the…
Lebanese wife-beater convicted under new law
A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a…
Ex-French president Nicolas Sarkozy charged with corruption
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move…
Taliban suicide attack on military bus kills 8 in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber in Kabul killed eight military officers Wednesday in an attack on an air force bus, Afghan…
China bans civil servants, students from Ramadan fasting
China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from taking part in Ramadan fasting,…