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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, February 11th, 2011
PRESIDENT, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Alhaji Aminu Maigari has said the body is at home with the plans of Samson Siasia on the newbreed Super Eagles. ‘’The NFF is happy with the coach as he begins the process of building a new team. From what we saw against Sierra Leone, there is hope for Nigerian […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, February 11th, 2011
NIGERIA’S participation in an invitational Obama Cup in the United States of America is hanging in the balance following a withdrawal of most of the teams from the competition. The country’s ‘B’ team is scheduled to depart for the US this weekend for the tournament, but top officials have informed MTNFootball.com the trip is now […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, February 11th, 2011
THE Super Eagles Coach Samson Siasia has described the Sierra Leone national team coach as a comedian. The Sierra Leone Coach Joseph Cole had after the international friendly between the two countries at the Teslim Balogun Stadium said his side was robbed of victory. Super Eagles defeated Sierra Leone by 2-1. Cole also said that […]
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Headlines
Friday, February 11th, 2011
STILL reeling from recent killings in the city of Jos, which led to the overhauling of security operatives, another tragedy struck in Jos South Local Government Area of the state, resulting in the death of five people, while nine others sustained injuries. Saturday Tribune gathered that the incident occurred at about 7.30 p.m on Thursday […]
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Elections 2011, South-West
Friday, February 11th, 2011
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), has drawn a battle line between him and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as well as the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) over the soul of the South-West in the April elections. Buhari has set up a strategic committee to work out […]
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National Politics, Raw Politics
Friday, February 11th, 2011

Barring all odds, the erstwhile Deputy National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South-West Zone, Chief Olabode George, alongside five other former directors of the Nigeria Ports Authority from prison may be released February 26. Saturday Tribune’s findings at the prison custody during the week in Lagos revealed that one of the convicts, Alhaji Aminu Dabo, […]
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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, February 11th, 2011
STUDENTS of various institutions from Kwara State staged a violent protest on Friday holding motorists to ransom over non-payment of their bursaries. The students reportedly destroyed private and public property during the protest in Ilorin, the state capital. They said they embarked on the protest to press home their demand from the state government, stressing […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, February 11th, 2011
IGERIAN rights groups, on Friday, said police denied them permission to stage a protest in support of Egyptians demanding that President Hosni Mubarak step down. A coalition of 62 rights groups had planned to stage the protest in front of the Egyptian embassy, on Thursday, in Abuja but stayed away after failing to secure police […]
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Africa & World Politics
Friday, February 11th, 2011
EGYPT’S President, Hosni Mubarak, resigned as president and handed control to the military, on Friday, after 29 years in power, bowing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. “The people ousted the president,” chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential palace in Cairo. Several hundred thousand protesters […]
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Lagos, National Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics, State News
Friday, February 11th, 2011

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state yesterday blamed the PDP-led federal government for the poor state of the country’s security and electricity, saying; “Before they assumed office in 1999, there was no bombing in Nigeria and there was no kidnapping.” The Governor also said the ongoing Egyptian crisis would be a window of economic opportunity […]