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Picture: Ex Green Eagles star, Okey Isima, dies

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

CAPTAIN of the 1980 Nations Cup-winning Green Eagles squad, Christian Chukwu (MON), has described the late Okey Isima (MON), as a true football stakeholder. Chukwu, in a telephone chat with Tribunesport in Lagos, said that the exit of the former teammate was a great loss to Nigerian football. “In fact, I have not recovered from […]

Ohaneze, OPC, Ijaw groups back zoning in 2015

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Three socio-cultural organisations, Ohaneze Ndigbo, Oodu’a Peoples Congress and the Ijaw Monitoring Group on Tuesday endorsed the zoning arrangement among the country’s six geo-political zones for the 2015 polls, News Agency of Nigeria reports. The spokesmen for the groups said zoning should not be dumped in order to ensure Nigeria’s political stability and unity. Their […]

Opinion: Government reward for Super Eagles

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

THE mind-boggling cash gifts splashed out on the national football team players and officials that won the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa early in February by the Federal Government is a wrong way of incentivising those who have done the nation proud. It is excessive and perverted as there are standards of […]

Federal High Court in PH orders FG to pay N37b compensation to Odi community in Bayesla for the 1999 Obasanjo ordered invasion

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

A Federal High Court, sitting in Port Harcourt Tuesday ordered the Federal Government to pay N37.6b compensation to the people of Odi community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State over the invasion of their community by armed soldiers during the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo. Justice Lambi Akanbi of the Federal High Court, […]

Picture: Gunman kills lover, 7 family members in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, February 18th, 2013

BY IFEANYI OKOLIE LAGOS — It was a bloody weekend at Igando area of Lagos State, when a suspected kidnapper said to be operating in Delta State, attacked the Lagos home of his girlfriend, killing her and seven others. Vanguard gathered that the alleged kidnapper, identified simply as Henry, who is currently on the run, […]

13 shot, hacked with machetes in S.Africa mine unrest

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, February 18th, 2013

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South African police said 13 people were wounded in gun and machete attacks at an Anglo American Platinum mine on Monday, after 1,000 people besieged a union office. “Mine security intervened and fired rubber bullets, and in the process a total of 13 mine workers, inclusive of four security guards (were hurt),” […]

Disturbing picture: Bomb kills one in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, February 18th, 2013

Twenty-seven years after the death of Publisher of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, through a letter bomb, a similar incident occurred Monday under the Festac link bridge in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, which left chairman of the local Dredgers Association dead. Commissioner of Police for Lagos State Command, Mr. Umar Manko in a statement […]

CONFUSION: Discordant tunes in NFF over technical director

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, February 16th, 2013

*We’re going for one – Inyama *No, we have no such plans – Green THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that it has no plans to contract a foreign technical director for the national teams. This is coming at the heels of an earlier disclosure by a Board member, Emeka Inyama that “there was […]

Fashola splashes N59m on Eagles

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, February 16th, 2013

By Solomon Nwoke, Monsur Olowoopejo …Says victory calls for soul searching Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that Super Eagles victory in the recently concluded African Nations Cup in South Africa calls for soul searching as he splashed a total of N59 million on the team and the supporters club members. Rewarding the […]

I refused to have sex, bath naked in BBA House -Karen

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Raw Politics Friday, February 15th, 2013

Karen Igho, co-winner of Big Brother Amplified in 2011, tells Ademola Olonilua about her life How I feel about a new season of Big Brother Africa starting soon To be honest, the spotlight cannot be shifted from me because it is God that put me there. I know where I am coming from. Do not […]