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Tornados won’t be relegated, Nasidi assures

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, March 25th, 2011

Team manager of Niger Tornados, Danladi Nasidi has said that the club’s 16th position on the log with 20 points after 19 games of the first half the season would be better at the close of the season. Naside who made this known while speaking with Inside Out Premier League said that the Minna Based […]

Ethiopia tie, a litmus test for Siasia – Gombe

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, March 25th, 2011

Former Gombe United Football Club Chairman, Alhaji Gara Gombe has said the African Nation’s Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and Ethiopia will serve as a litmus test for Samson Siasia as coach of the national team. Disclosing this to Saturday Vanguard sports, Gombe said amongst all the matches Siasia has handled as the coach […]

Onoura regrets mum’s absence to cheer him against Eagles

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, March 25th, 2011

The Ethiopian national team coach, Iffy Onoura has waved off the Super Eagles as a threat to his ambition to pick the ticket to the 2012 African Cup of Nations finals just as he expressed satisfaction with the performance of the team he took over last July. The Nigerian-born Chief Coach of the Walias of […]

Man, 64, arrested for ingesting 1.580KG of heroin

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, March 25th, 2011

A 64 year-old man, Onwuka Ichi Ukegbu is now in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly attempting to export 1.580 kilogrammes of a substance believed to be heroin into the United States. The suspect, was arrested, last Sunday at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos, after operatives of […]

Bus runs into crowd at Kano CPC rally

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, March 25th, 2011

Makole (Kano State) – Several people sustained various degrees of injuries,Thursday at Makole Town in Kano when a bus ran into a rally of the CPC, the News Agency of Nigerias (NAN) reports. The Sector Commander of the Federal Roads Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhaji Ahmed Kogari, told said the incident occurred when the driver of the […]

Cote d Ivoire: Nigeria to table resolution on use of force at UN

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, March 25th, 2011

Nigeria, backed by France, is set to table a draft UN resolution, which would authorise possible use of military force to stop attack against civilians in Cote d’ Ivoire. The draft resolution will urge stronger enforcement of an arms embargo on the government of Laurent Gbagbo, in addition to use of “all necessary measures and […]

Nigeria-UK trade hits 3 billion pounds – Envoy

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, March 25th, 2011

London -Bilateral trade between Nigeria and the United Kingdom hit three billion pounds in 2010, Amb. Dozie Nwanna, Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner to the UK, has said. “The value of bilateral trade between the two countries was on the increase with a current estimate at a total sum of three billion pounds annually,” Nwanna said […]

The ban on tinted glasses

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, March 25th, 2011

THE Ministry of Police Affairs recently directed the enforcement of an extant law prohibiting the use of tinted glasses on motor vehicles, citing abuse of road traffic regulations. The Ministry in its public notice also stated that factory- tinted glasses are exempted from the ban. However, in offering one month of grace to owners to […]

Shocker as dupe met his swindler in detention

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, March 25th, 2011

When by twist of fate Mr. Babatunde Rufai met Sola, a man who allegedly defrauded him of N950,000, in police detention at Lagos State Criminal Investigation Department, he thought his tribulation was over and that the police would release him. Rufai, who runs a restaurant with his wife at Block 296 Akinyele Abesan Estate, […]

Kanu, Rufai get NFF roles

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, March 25th, 2011

The Nigeria Football Federation on Thursday announced the appointment of former Super Eagles skipper Nwankwo Kanu as Ambassador of Nigerian football. The 35-year-old, who was present at the official announcement of an international friendly match between Nigeria and Argentina in Lagos on Wednesday, is the most decorated Nigerian football player. “We made the decision […]