Mario Balotelli was sent off as Manchester City’s hopes of opening a seven-point lead at the top of the Premier League were dashed following a 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.
The executive chairman of the Delta State Sports Council, Amaju Pinnick has thumped up the Aminu Maigari led NFF board for giving the various national teams the needed support before major competitions.
Three policemen were shot and injured when suspected members of Islamist sect Boko Haram attacked a police station, a bank and a beer parlour in Nigeria’s Yobe state, a security official said Sunday.
Nigerians in the UK have described the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as a rare and committed leader.
Former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday described the late Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu as a tireless, intelligent, focused and frank negotiator who kept to his words.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Sunday warned the West against interfering in Russia’s upcoming elections after he formally agreed to run for a historic third term as president.
AT the risk of sounding like a broken record, the story of how Nigeria had once relied majorly on agriculture and agricultural commodities for her foreign exchange earnings and later turned to place all her hopes on oil, often awash discussions in circles, and even the media.
The Northern Governors Forum (NGF) commiserated with the Ojukwu family, lamenting that the nation has lost a great man.
CALL it a year of deaths and you may not be wrong. Apart from numerous deaths arising from accidents, building collapse, flooding, ethno-religious crises and mayhem unleashed by the Boko Haram Islamic sect via bomb explosions, many prominent Nigerians died in 2011.
GOVERNOR of the Central Bankof Nigeria (CBN) Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi warns of grave economic consequences ahead if the planned removal of fuel subsidy was not supported by Nigerians.
The woes of Nigeria’s football continued yesterday in Morocco as the national U-23 team got pipped 1-0 by their Moroccan counterpart in the newly created African U-23 Championship.
The Department of State Service (SSS) appears to have established a strong connection between the detained Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume and the former spokesperson of the dreaded Boko Haram sect, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga (a.ka Al-Zawahiri).
Hon. Zakari Mohammed, the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Media and Publicity, says the morally correct thing government should do is to check the activities of those diverting subsidy and not pass the burden to Nigerians. On Boko Haram, he says we can not stop them by mounting road blocks.
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