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NFF earmarks N100m for FA Cup

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

In its determination to rebrand football in the country, the Nigerian soccer governing body, NFF, has raised the level of sponsorship of the FA Cup competition, earmarking a whopping N100 million to prosecute this year’s tournament and perhaps return the glamour associated with the oldest football competition in Nigeria. Daily Sunsports scooped that the staggering […]

World Bank to spend N47.1bn on Nigerian roads

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

The Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, has said the country has received a World Bank commitment of $300m (about N47.1bn) for the rehabilitation of 441 kilometres and maintenance of 351 kilometres of roads. In his keynote address at the national workshop on attitudinal change in management and financing of roads in Nigeria in Abuja […]

Bianca, Ezeife, others to commission Biafran war veterans’ home, July 9

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Monday, May 14th, 2012

The wife of the late Biafran warlord and Ezeigbo Gburugburu, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu and former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife are expected to commission the Biafran war veterans’ home in Okwe, Imo State on July 9. Addressing journalists yesterday when the Association of Keke Napep Drivers/Owners Union, Anambra State […]

Opinion: Soyinka wants to scatter Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Wole Soyinka Monday, May 14th, 2012

Photo: Sun News Publishing Class, you’re not going to like this. I was half way transcribing the torrents of texts that trailed the publication of last week when guess what? Something happened – technology failed me. The phone crashed. It wiped away most of your reactions to the story. Traditionally, for fairness and all, I […]

Editorial: Unresolved murder cases

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, May 14th, 2012

The recent killing of Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary of Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has reopened the vexed issue of unresolved murders in this country. Oyerinde was recently murdered in controversial circumstances in his Benin, Edo State, residence. While lamenting the gruesome killing of Olaitan, Oshiomhole as the chief security officer of his […]

Nigerian loses 150,000 bpd, $5bn to thieves…As SPDC joint venture laments crude theft in N’Delta

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, May 14th, 2012

Nigeria loses about 150,000 barrels of oil per day and $5 billion yearly, through crude oil theft. The revelation was made at the weekend in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by the Managing Director of Shell Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), Mutiu Sunmonu. Sunmonu said SPDC joint venture suffers a daily loss of 43,000 barrels […]

Gunmen kill soldier, village head in Kaduna

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Monday, May 14th, 2012

A group, under the umbrella of Northern Emancipation Network and Arewa Youth Parliament, has assured the people that it will work harder to ensure that peace reigns in the North. Addressing a press conference yesterday, the Coordinator of the group, Suleiman Abdulaziz, said his group was making efforts to ensure that all concerned interest groups […]

Youths to hold summit to tackle national crises

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, May 14th, 2012

The First Nigerian Youths Multi- Stakeholders Dialogue Summit scheduled to hold this month in Abuja has been postponed. The event will how hold on July 2, 2012. In a release signed by Abdullahi Abdulmajeed, the convener and Chairman and Yinka Sotade, Secretary, Summit Organizing committee, and made available to Sunday Sun, the decision to postpone […]

MASSOB threatens showdown over convicted members

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, May 14th, 2012

Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) says its members would embark on nationwide demonstration should the conviction of its members in Asaba, the Delta State capital, not be quashed. Six members of the organisation namely, Sunday Okoro, Ifeanyi Igbozuruike, Francis Onuigbo, Sebastian Nworie, Emmanuel Nwafor and Chidi Okafor were last […]

‘1.1 million Nigerians are blind’ (Including our leaders)

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, May 13th, 2012

A Consultant Ophthalmologist at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Dr. Bassey Etim, has said an estimated 1.13 million Nigerians aged 40 and above are currently blind. Etim said this in Calabar, the Cross River State capital during a recent workshop on ‘Low Vision’ for optometrists, ophthalmologists and ophthalmic nurses organised the National Eye Health […]