SAO PAULO (AFP) – Lionel Messi kept running into a determined Dutch defensive wall on Wednesday but Argentina are still in the World Cup final and the little genius will get his chance to emulate Diego Maradona. A disciplined defensive display by the Netherlands ensured that the tense Sao Paolo semi-final was dragged into a […]

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TWO incidents occurred recently that show us all that leadership can change the way we do things in this country, and within a short period. In fact, the entrenchment of a “new order” in the way we carry out our respective assignments – at any level, or even in our individual businesses – could be much sooner than we can ever envisage.

The recent spate of violence in Ife is a reflection of the anxiety that now prevails among APC stakeholders who are determined to frustrate the conduct of the August 9 election, the PDP national scribe, Prof. Wale Oladipo said yesterday.

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Armed robbers, last weekend, attacked a bank branch in the premises of University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, carting away millions of naira from the bank’s Automated Teller Machines, ATMs.

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal lashed out at the World Cup’s third place play-off match on Wednesday after his side’s semi-final defeat to Argentina.

A banker, Musari Ayodele, was yesterday docked before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, in Lagos, for forgery, and stealing N3.2 million, belonging to customers of Skye Bank Plc, at Ikorodu branch.

The Sports Minister, Tammy Danagogo, on Wednesday said the Federal Government was probing the non-payment of the entitlements of the Super Eagles which led to the players’ protest in Brazil.

The Netherlands’ heartbreaking penalty shootout loss to Argentina in the World Cup semi-finals looks to have definitively ended Arjen Robben’s hopes of exorcising his ghosts from the 2010 final.