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Nigeria: Flamingoes Book World Cup Ticket

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, March 25th, 2012

Nigeria’s Flamingoes yesterday at the MKO Abiola Stadium, Abeokuta booked their place in the 2012 Fifa Under17 Women’s World Cup in Azerbaijan. Nigeria’s ticket came off a well-rounded victory from the nation’s campaigners against their Zambian counterparts, Junior She-Polopolo whom they hit 5-0 in the final fixture of the global event. The coach Peter Dedevbo […]

‘Anambra set to become the cleanest state’

Posted by admin Anambra, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, State News Saturday, March 24th, 2012

Anambra is set to become the cleanest state in Nigeria. This was disclosed by Governor Peter Obi yesterday during the commissioning of refuse disposal vehicles, compactors receptacles, ANIDS school buses, totaling over 500 million naira at the premises of Innoson Motor Manufacturing Company, Nnewi. Obi commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his interest in private enterprises […]

Suspected Boko Haram members die in suicide blast during raid

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News Saturday, March 24th, 2012

KANO-(AFP) – Suspected members of Boko Haram Islamist sect set off a suicide car bomb Saturday during a military raid on their hideout in the northern city of Kano, police said. The army chief of Kano state Brigadier-General Iliyasu Isa Abba said the explosion was a desperate act aimed at avoiding capture. “It was a […]

University split over Korean-American World Bank candidate

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Saturday, March 24th, 2012

HANOVER, New Hampshire (AFP) – Dartmouth College students, returning from spring break, were divided over President Obama’s decision to nominate their president to lead the World Bank. Jim Yong Kim, a Korean-American who became the first Asian-American to lead a prestigious Ivy League university, began his tenure at Dartmouth in 2009 as something of a […]

Research: Nigerians the most educated in the U.S.

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 24th, 2012

FOR Woodlands resident David Olowokere, one of Nigeria’s sons, having a master’s degree in engineering just wasn’t enough for his people back home. So he got a doctorate. His wife, Shalewa, a civil engineer, didn’t stop at a bachelor’s, either. She went for her master’s. The same obsession with education runs in the Udeh household […]

Letter: My gratitude to a kind Nigerian

Posted by admin Headlines, Letters Saturday, March 24th, 2012

SIR: Many who have not gone through the ordeal of abduction do not really know what it feels like. I was travelling from Benin to Lagos on January 9, this year to visit my uncle Mr. Richard Odigwe whom I have not seen for over 10 years. So as to beat the impending subsidy removal […]

Picture: Carwash robbery syndicate uncovered

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 24th, 2012

March 24, 2012 by Comfort Oseghale Godspower (third left); Onyedikachi (second right); and other members of the gang | credits: File copy When his regular auto mechanic requested to take his car, a Mercedes GL 450 Sports Utility Vehicle, to a carwash in his neighbourhood, Francis Ikechukwu had no reason to suspect that something was […]

Ex-militant returns from US as Marine Engineer

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Saturday, March 24th, 2012

By Emma Amaize, Warri THREE years ago, he was one of the militants carrying guns in the creeks of Niger-Delta, but on March 19, he returned from an 18-month intensive training in the United States of America, USA, a qualified marine engineer. His name is Engineer Moses Gbogun, a beneficiary of the Federal Government’s amnesty […]

Corruption in EFCC shocking – Lamorde

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Friday, March 23rd, 2012

By Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA — Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, has disclosed that the rampant corruption in the Nigerian society may have permeated the supposed iron curtains of anti-corruption agencies, including the commission he heads. Lamorde, who made the disclosure, yesterday, at a two-day Public-Private Sector Workshop on […]

Eminent Nigerians eulogise ‘superman’ Tinubu at 60

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Tinubu The celebration of the 60th birthday of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, begins today in Lagos with a Cultural Night organised by the Lagos State Council of Arts and Culture at Muson Centre, Onikan. The event, to be witnessed by eminent Nigerians, kicks off at 6.30pm, according […]