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Nations Cup Update: Zambia, I’Coast through to AFCON s’finals

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Zambia and Ivory Coast eased into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with 3-0 wins over Sudan and co-hosts Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday in the first games of the weekend’s quarter-final clashes. A 15th minute goal from defender Stopilla Sunzu, a second after 66 minutes from captain Chris Katongo and a third four […]

Disturbing Picture: Dead conductor: LASTMA hands over officers to police

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Saturday said it had handed over three officers of the agency to the police over the death of a 24-year-old commercial bus conductor, Rasheed Alabi. Alabi was killed in Lagos last Thursday after two officials of LASTMA allegedly pulled him down from his bus to his death. […]

Nigerian varsities fail to make top 1,600 in the world

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world. The University of Benin ranked 1,639th on the global scale, the 18th in Africa and […]

Research: Nigeria Among 5 Most Active Countries on Twitter

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, February 3rd, 2012

By Raheem AkingboluWith 1,646,212, volumes of geo-located Tweets in the last three months of 2011, Nigeria is one of the five most active countries on online interactions in Africa; a research study has revealed. According to ‘How Africa Tweets’, a new research launched in Nairobi recently, the high number of young people Tweeting from mobile […]

Press Release: Gov. Akpabio Donates N50 million to Madalla Victims

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Niger, Press Releases, State News Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Press Release Akpabio Donates N50 million to Madalla Victims The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio has donated N50 million to the victims of the Madalla bomb blast at the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla in Niger State. About 43 persons were confirmed dead and more than 100 others injured in a bomb […]

Team recovers N151b embezzled pension funds

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, February 3rd, 2012

THE Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform has recovered about N151 billion of embezzled funds and assets of the Federal Government since it was set up in 2010. Most of these funds were recovered from the pension office at the Office of the Head of Service. The Chairman of the Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, […]

Nations Cup: All eyes on quarter-final clashes

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Zambia, Cote d’ Ivoire, Gabon and Ghana appear the likely winners of the 2012 Cup of Nations quarter-finals across central Africa this weekend. The football feast begins Saturday with two fixtures in Equatorial Guinea — Zambia and Sudan in mainland port city Bata followed by the co-hosts and Cote d’ Ivoire in island […]

Picture: Scores die in Egypt’s soccer stadium stampede

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

In terms of global visibility there could hardly be a greater contrast between Wednesday’s soccer disaster in Egypt which claimed the lives of at least 73 people and the world’s worst recorded stadium disaster in which 340 people died in Moscow in 1982. Video footage of the riot in Port Said between fans of […]

FG declares Monday public holiday

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

The Federal Government has declared Monday, February 6, 2012 as a public holiday, to mark the Id-el-Maoulud celebration. This was contained in a statement issued by the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, and signed by an Assistant Director/Press Secretary in the ministry, Mr. Ben Bem Boong, on Thursday. -Punchwp_posts

Court extradites Nigerian to US for N125.3m fraud

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered that a Nigerian, Rasheed Mustapha, be extradited to the United States of America for allegedly stealing $798,907.62 (N125.3m) in that country. The verdict came after a lot of drama between the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Mustapha, who through his counsel, Joseph Nwabike, fought […]