Nigeria’s coach, Shaibu Amodu, addressed the press in Angola, yesterday, and said that he would prefer to work with Mali’s coach Stephen Keshi than a foreign coach.
Minister and Chairman National Sports Commission, Engineer Sani Ndanusa, yesterday, declared that ‘mother luck’ gave the country the victory against Zambia in the on-going African Cup of Nations in Angola. The Eagles after the barren 120 minutes duel Monday night edged out the hard fighting Chipolopolo 5-4 on penalties to advance to the semifinal stage.
The President TaskForce has left the Nigeria Football Federation in the lurch in the payment of winning bonus of the Eagles who crawled into the Nations Cup 2010 semi-final Monday.
THE Assistant Inspector general of Police, Zone II, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar has taken over the investigation into Monday evening’s brutal killing of the Action Congress (AC) gubernatorial candidate in the April 2007 polls, Otunba Dipo Dina.
By Olasunkanmi Akoni
The Organisation of Christian in Demo-cracy, OCD, has condemn-ed what it called unprovo-ked attack on the law-abiding Christians in Plateau State.
The organisation, in a statement signed by its President, Bishop Theophi-lus Ajose, said, “we view with dismay the carnage and unholy termination of lives of innocent people, especially Christians in Jos, [...]
”On August 22,1791, Boukman, presided together with an African born Priestess and conducted a ceremony for slaves of Saint Dominique .
By Bose Adebayo
The United States government has been advised to delist Nigeria from its list of “countries of interest”because of the isolated case of a Nigerian, Farouk Mutallab, who was caught in an attempt to bomb a US plane on Christmas day.
Association of National Honours Awardees, ANHA, gave this advice yesterday in Lagos, [...]
By  Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA—CATHOLIC Bishops in Anambra State have called on the governorship candidates in the February 6, gubernatorial election in the state and the electorate to show restraint and do all in their power to ensure a free, fair, peaceful and credible election.
In a statement by Most Rev. Valerian Okeke, Archbishop of Onitsha, [...]
By J.K.Randle
ONE of the unintentional hazards of watching flat screen television is that some of the stuff that comes through just knocks you flat.
A few minutes ago, Nick Leeson the rogue trader who single-handedly brought down Barings Brothers, the British merchant bank that had been in existence for almost 250Â years, was incandescent [...]
By  Dayo Benson and Vincent Ujumadu
AWKA—THE much publicised political debate for governorship candidates participating in the February 6, governorship election in Anambra State, was temporarily disrupted yesterday, when some of the candidates, who were not invited by the organisers, forced themselves into the podium to protest their exclusion.
The event was put together by [...]
…asks aggrieved PDP members to quit
By Ise-Oluwa Ige
ABUJA—The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed the nomination of former Governor of Central Bank, Professor Charles Soludo as the flag-bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forth coming Anambra gubernatorial poll scheduled to hold on 6 February, [...]
* She says SSS refuses to release her passport
By Innocent Anaba & Emma Ovuakporie
ABUJA—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, sealed off 17 more properties linked to the former Managing Director of Oceanic Bank Plc, Mrs Cecilia Ibru in Abuja and Lagos.
This was coming as Mrs Ibru told a Federal High [...]
…promises to find solution to ethno-religious crises
By Taye Obateru
Jos—Vice President, Goodluck Jonathan visited the crisis-ridden parts of the Plateau State capital yesterday, promising that necessary steps would be taken to avoid a repeat of the violence in the state or elsewhere in the country.
Speaking to newsmen after going round the areas [...]
By Ise-Oluwa Ige
ABUJA—A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, threw out a request by the Government of Rivers State to pronounce on the legality of the cession of about 76 oil wells, allegedly belonging to it, to Akwa Ibom State for want of jurisdiction.
The trial high court judge, Justice Adamu Bello, in [...]
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