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FIFA rankings Eagles drop one step

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Nigeria dropped one spot to 31 in April’s ranking of the world’s senior national football teams released by Fifa. The Super Eagles were unable to consolidate on their 30th spot from March after emerging champions at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa. Nigeria’s Victor Moses struggling for ball possession in the World Cup […]

Detained Leadership journalists released, sue IG for N10m

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Two journalists with the Leadership Newspapers, detained by the police on Monday were released on Tuesday evening. The Group News Editor of Leadership Newspapers Group, Mr. Tony Amoekedo, and correspondent, Chibuzo Ukaibe, were detained alongside two others at the Force Headquarters following a story their newspaper published on a “presidential directive” to attack key opposition […]

Bayelsa: 10 bodies of slain policemen recovered

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

THE police in Bayelsa State on Tuesday recovered 10 decomposing bodies said to be those of the policemen killed in an ambush on Saturday night. Twelve policemen on escort duty were murdered in the attack along the Azuzama waterways of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state which the Movement for the Emancipation of […]

NFF cuts Eagles bonus, coaches salaries

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

The Nigeria Football Federation has taken a very significant step to curtail overhead cost in the administration of football in the country. The Technical and Development Committee of the federation, which met in Abuja on Tuesday, recommended for immediate implementation, a list of decisions that would substantively cut down the cost of prosecuting games involving […]

Immortalize Achebe with stamp and currency inscriptions – Chiakwelu

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Emeka Chiakwelu, the principal policy strategist at Afripol Organization has urged the government of His Excellency President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria to immortalize the late Prof. Chinua Achebe by placing his image inscriptions on Nigerian stamps and currency. Speaking at Afripols headquarter in Houston-Texas, Chiakwelu reminded both Nigerians and Africans at his table commentary on […]

Press Release: Re: The death of Ekiti deputy governor

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

PRESS STATEMENT THE TASK OF THE LABOURER IS OVER: MRS. FUNMILAYO OLAYINKA Today I am painfully sored. As I write this with grieving heart and from a broken heart on the passage to eternity of my dear sis, our own elegant stallion,heroine of repute, all of these epaulets and more well earned and deserved all […]

Nigerian ambassador to Australia, an extraordinary diplomat

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

By Levi Obijiofor I met him for the first time on Wednesday, 20 February 2013. My family and I had travelled to Canberra, Australia’s federal capital, to apply for the reissue of my wife’s e-passport which was due to expire at the end of March 2013. Ahead of that, and against the background of my […]

Lady found dead without eyes, tongue in Jos

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Jos – Ritual killers on Monday struck in Jos, killing and removing the eyes and tongue of a young lady in Twanchit Village at Tudun Wada in the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau. The police in Jos confirmed the incident but said they had no details yet. Residents who woke up to the […]

South East Govs, stakeholders agree on befitting burial for Achebe

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, South-East Tuesday, April 9th, 2013

Governors of the South East of Nigeria on Sunday in Enugu agreed to give the renowned author, late Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting burial. The Chairman of the forum, Mr Peter Obi, made this known to newsmen at the end of the governors’ meeting. He said the governors and some elder statesmen from the zone […]

Ex British PM, Margaret Thatcher, dies at 87

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, April 8th, 2013

Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died “peacefully” at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke while staying at the Ritz hotel in central London. David Cameron called her a “great Briton” and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death. Lady Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was […]