Yobo ready for a new partner

February 24, 2012   Super Eagles captain Joseph Yobo has expressed confidence in the ability of the home-based players to live up to expectation when the team engage Rwanda in an African Nations Cup qualifier in Kigali. Yobo, who spoke from his base in Turkey, said he was not bothered if his central defence partner […]

UNIJOS makes breakthrough in anti-malaria drug

University of Jos has made a breakthrough in the commercial cultivation of Artemisinin, which is a major component in the production of Artemisin Combination Therapy (ACT), which is currently being adjudged as the best solution to the increasing resistance of malaria parasites to anti malaria drug. Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Hayward Babale Mafuyei […]

FCDA awards N300bn contract to fake firms

Senate Committee on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday raised the alarm over how the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) awarded contracts worth billions of naira to phantom companies. A source within the committee said the contracts awarded to some companies without known addresses and offices are worth at least N300 billion. The Senate FCT […]

Why Taiwo failed in Milan – Iroha

23, 2012 Taye Taiwo line up with his Eagles teammates Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Former Super Eagles’ left wing-back, Ben Iroha, has attributed the poor outing recorded by Nigerian defender, Taye Taiwo, at the Italian Serie A giants, AC Milan, to frustration, solitude, bias and gang-up from his teammates. Speaking […]

Mikel set to leave Chelsea

23, 2012 Mikel Obi Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Mikel Obi is unhappy at Chelsea and he could be open to a sensational move to big-spending Russian club, Anzhi Makhachkala. Close sources to the Nigeria international midfielder said he has been unhappy for some time now at Stamford Bridge under Manager […]

Biu dismissed from the police force

EFCC Boss, Larmode Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Commissioner of Police, Zakari Biu, in whose custody Kabiru Umar (a.k.a Sokoto), the alleged mastermind of Christmas Day, 2011 bombing of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla, Niger State, escaped, was yesterday dismissed by the Police Service Commission (PSC). Boko Haram claimed responsibility for […]

Nigeria: The Risks of a Coup or Civil War

Exclusive Analysis Ltd The country risk score for Nigeria on Exclusive Analysis’s Foresight Country Risk Platform is now 4.3, which is in the Severe Risk Band. Only the country risk scores for Somalia and Sudan are higher in the sub-Saharan African region. President Jonathan’s April 2011 electoral victory and policy agenda has widened north-south divisions […]

Nigerian woman held captive and enslaved in Texas home for nine years

Cindy (Credit: CBS DFW)  (CBS) ARLINGTON, Texas – A woman was held captive inside an Arlington house for nine years after she was tricked and forced into modern day slavery. CBS DFW reports this woman, who requested to be called Cindy, said she thought she was coming to Texas from Nigeria to work as a […]

Robbers lay siege to Lagos-Ibadan expressway

In the last three days, commuters and other road users plying the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, were subjected to all sorts of agony through the activities of armed robbers. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the people plying the road had lost valuables worth millions of naira to men of the underworld, who had taken over the road. It […]

Lion on the rampage, kills 2 in Yobe (Lions and Boko Haram teaming up to wreck havoc)

A lion has killed two herdsmen and 30 livestock in a settlement in Yobe State, the state Commissioner for Environment, Ahmed Wakil Sarki, said on Tuesday. “We have a lion on the rampage, which has so far killed two people and around 30 livestock,” the commissioner said. He said the lion attacked the settlement on […]

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