Tag: Germany
Volkswagen set to buy 100 per cent of Scania
Europe’s biggest carmaker, Germany’s Volkswagen, said Friday it was making a 6.7-billion-euro ($9.19 billion) offer to grab the nearly 40…
Patience Jonathan out for medical check up?
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, may have embarked on another medical trip to Germany. Sahara Reporters, quoting two presidential…
Novelist Gunter Grass hangs up pen
Nobel prize-winning German writer Gunter Grass, author of “The Tin Drum” and one of Germany’s most influential if controversial intellectual…
Bayern’s Ribery scoops second award in 24 hours
Less than 24 hours after being voted player of the tournament at the Club World Cup, France’s Franck Ribery has…
Nigeria’s Sand Eagles Win Copa Lagos 2013
Edwin Usoboh Nigeria’ Super Sand Eagles showed their supremacy in beach soccer as they won all their matches of the…
Nigeria thrash Germany 7-1 in Copa Lagos Beach Soccer
Edwin Usoboh Nigeria’s Super Sand Eagles on Friday kicked off the defence of their title in this year’s Copa Lagos…
Brazil World Cup: Gyan hopeful for Ghana
Ghana captain, Asamoah Gyan has admitted that the Black Stars have drawn the most difficult and competitive group in the…
World Cup Draw: Spain, Brazil, Germany scare Ronaldo
Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo believes Spain, Brazil and Germany are the favourites to win next year’s World Cup and is…
Germany will win World Cup, says Brazil psychic
Brazilian psychic diva Marcia Fernandes on Sunday forecast that Germany will win the World Cup in Brazil next year. “Germany…
Amnesty office trains 20 pilots in Germany
Twenty commercial licensed pilots departed Lagos on Sunday for jet/type-rating training at the Lufthansa Pilot Institute, Germany. The pilots are…
Exit Poll: Merkel wins in Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a third term in elections Sunday, according to exit polls. But her conservatives may be…
Germans begin voting with Merkel set for third term
Germans began voting Sunday with Chancellor Angela Merkel poised to win a third term, which would make her Europe’s only…
Nigerian Pro Boxers Eye World Titles
In the second quarter of this outgoing year, Nigerian professional boxers around the world intensified their efforts to become world…
Patience Jonathan back
Moyo Fabiyi Wife of Nigeria’s president, Patience Faka, returned to the country Wednesday afternoon after about two months overseas, declaring:…
Sources: Patience Jonathan hospitalized in Germany
Patience Faka Jonathan, wife of Nigeria’s president has been receiving medical treatment in Germany for an illness suspected to have…
Balotelli’s brace lands Italy in final…Germans out
Striker Mario Balotelli struck twice to seal Italy’s 2-1 semi-final win over Germany on Thursday to leave the Germans’ Euro…
Italy Can Upset Germany –Coach
Coach Joachim Löw may have betrayed his confidence by saying that Germany “can beat any team in the world” but…
German machine retires 2 Greek footballers
Greece’s 4-2 defeat by Germany in Friday’s Euro 2012 quarter-final prompted veteran duo Kostas Chalkias and Nikos Liberopoulos to announce…
Germany beat Greece for Euro 2012 semi
Football: Germany outclass Greece to make Euro 2012 semis – Wrap Germany showed their class in Gdansk, Poland on Friday…
Press mixes sports, politics as Greece, Germany clash
German newspapers Friday light-heartedly mixed politics and football with an eye on Germany’s Euro 2012 encounter with Greece, suggesting the…
Holland, Denmark home as Portugal, Germany qualify
Germany eliminated Denmark 2-1 and Portugal ensured that Holland went back home without a point, by similar margin. It was…
It’s Federer, Haas at Halle final
Five-time champion Roger Federer will face “mystified” German Tommy Haas in the final of the ATP grasscourt tournament after the…
German machine upset Portugal again
A second-half header from striker Mario Gomez was enough to give Germany a 1-0 win over Portugal on Saturday in…
Leaders set date for Euro zone crisis summit
The leaders of Italy, France, Germany and Spain will hold a summit on the eurozone crisis on June 22 in…
Francois Hollande takes oath as French president
Francois Hollande was sworn in as France’s first Socialist president since 1995 on Tuesday at a solemn ceremony overshadowed by…
World Table Tennis Tourney: Coach Absolves Toriola Of Blame
Nigeria’s Coach to the just concluded World Team Table Tennis championship in Dortmund, Germany, Nasiru Bello, has urged Nigerians not…
Jonathan: Nigeria safe for investors
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said on a visit to Germany Thursday that Western investors had nothing to fear in his…
Sex crazy woman makes German call police
A desperate man in Munich, Germany, fled onto a balcony and called police for protection after his insatiable companion for…
Afolabi Battle Ready For Huck
Nigeria-born WBO Interim Cruiserweight champion, Ola Afolabi (19-2-3, 9 KOs) has started final preparation for his title bout against WBO…
Forget Olympic Team Medals, Oshodi Tells Nigerians
Lagos State Commissioner For Sports and board member of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, NTTF, Enitan Oshodi, has said that…