Nigeria and Olympique Marseille free-scoring wing back, Taiye Taiwo is excited to meet Chelsea in the UEFA Champions League group game at Stamford Bridge.
As Nigeria celebrates the 50th anniversary of nationhood on October 1, President General of the Nigeria Football Supporters club, Rafiu Ladipo has enjoined Nigerians in all walks of life to show solidarity with the country by appearing in white green white attires on that day.
There was pandemonium at the national stadium, Lagos yesterday as physically challenged athletes demonstrated against the purported imposition of fees for the use of stadium facilities.
Former sprinter, Mercy Nku has hailed Cross River state governor, Senator Liyel Imoke for his continued sponsorship of the annual Obudu international mountain race now in its sixth edition this year.
RISING tennis star, Kingsley Enoseregbe has won the 3rd Okee Okoye U-20 Boys Tennis tournament after beating Owolabi Jinadu in straight sets, 6-2, 7-6 in the final match played weekend at the National Stadium Lagos tennis court.
GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, Monday, said his former boss, Senator Rashidi Ladoja had lost his electoral value and trying to contest the 2011 poll was tantamount to political suicide.
National Conscience Party, NCP, has asked Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission, ICPC, to immediately commence investigations into the alleged ongoing corruption in the operation and management of the Federation Account.
The National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, Monday, said no amount of pressure that would be brought on him would make him resign his position as the head of the electoral body.
EX-MILITANTS who are undergoing different skill acquisition programmes in Sapele, Delta State, Monday, abandoned their training activities and laid siege to the Warri-Benin road for up to three hours.
A Lebanese Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. George Keiruz, has been kidnapped at Obehie Junction, Asa, Abia State, along Aba-Port Harcourt expressway by 10 gunmen who drove in a jeep. The bandits were said to have sped out of their hideout, crossed the priest’s car and forced it to an abrupt halt.
An international management consultant based in the United Kingdom, Mr Kachi Okezie, has called for a shift of emphasis in Nigeria from paper qualifications to skills that are relevant to the labour market.
ABIA North Patriotic Youth Forum, ANPYF, has thrown its weight behind the senatorial aspiration of Mao Ohuabunwa for Abia North Senatorial district come 2011.
Solicitor to the former executives of Electronics Dealers Association of Onitsha, EDAO, has appealed to Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State and Acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Hafix Ringim, to prevail on Chief Okechukwu Okoli’s led new executive of the association to unlock shops of members of the erstwhile executive in order to avert breakdown of law and order.
As Nigeria celebrates 50 years of nationhood, pharmacists under the auspices of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have urged the ruling class to utilise the occasion of the nation’s 50th independence to lay a foundation for the future.
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