Nigeria Association of Women in Sports (NAWIS) president, Gloria Obajimi, has hailed Delta state governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan for giving a N25m grant to aid Delta athletes’ preparations for next year’s Olympics Games.
The Federal Government has been called upon to embark on massive investments in the bio-fuel sub-sector and building of new refineries to diversify the economy to optimise outputs in order to meet it target of ranking among the top 20 economies in the world by 2020.
The 2011 Women Africa Hockey Cup for Club defending champions, Heartland Queens of Nigeria have retained their title as the tournament came to a close in Lusaka, Zambia last weekend.
You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. Malcolm X
Events of last week in Yenagoa have shown that those who profess to be managing the game of football in Nigeria are not prepared to make progress from the slide the game has taken these past years.
The memories of those who lost their lives in the course of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola assuming office as governor of Osun State linger. Between April 25 when Aregbesola declared his intention to be at the helm of affairs in the state, through his Oranmiyan campaign group, and November 2010 when the court restored his mandate as governor, scores of his supporters and citizens of Osun defending democracy were brutalised.
Technical Adviser of the Wrestling Federation of Nigeria, WFN, Dr. Daniel Igali has said that the preparation of the federation ahead of the Olympics is in top gear following the performances of wrestlers at the just concluded Sylva’s Classics held in Yanegoa, Bayelsa State.
I am a Christmas child. No, I was not born on Christmas day – but an exact week to Christmas – on the 18th of December – that last week of active shopping and frenzied last minutes preparation for Christmas celebrants. So imagine Nigeria on the 18th of December, 1966. Two coups had taken place earlier that year – one in January and the other on July.
When this column recently supported the introduction of Islamic Banking to Nigeria, some non-muslims were visibly angry with our standpoint. One critic dismissed our article as ‘sponsored’, and ‘a magnitude of lies’.
President Goodluck Jonathan,Friday, allayed the fears on the state of the Nigerian economy, saying “the country is not broke.’’
Young hip hop sensation, M-Factor has won the Peak Talent Show Season 3. He won over sultry singer Immaculate and the amazing violin player Bernard.
For many entertainers this year, success poured like rain, they were literally drowning in it.
From music artistes to Nollywood actors and actresses , comedians, reality show winners, entertainment programme personalities, the list goes on and on.
A wave of attacks in northern Nigerian cities attributed to a radical Islamist group killed 46 people, medical sources said Saturday, raising the death toll sharply from an earlier seven.
The five-man panel of the Court of Appeal that nullified Senator Andy Uba’s election yesterday heard and decided the matter involving Anambra South Senatorial seat in about 24 hours.
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