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Ivory Coast deserve to lose – Oliseh

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, February 4th, 2013

Former Super Eagles captain, Sunday Oliseh, is blaming the Elephants of Ivory Coast for their loss to Nigeria in the quarter-final match on Sunday, saying star players Yaya Toure and Didier Drogba were lackadaisical in their approach to the game. The Ivorians were tournament favourites until they fell 2-1 to the Super Eagles who paraded […]

Nigerians are too impatient –Keshi •Eagles grab $15,000 each

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi basking in the euphoria of a big victory over Africa Nations Cup favourites, Cote d’Ivoire has blasted Nigerians. Keshi who said that his team did not enjoy the needed support before the Eagles game against Elephants on Sunday carpeted the fans for their lack of patience. Against all odds and […]

David Mark and his anti-gay crusaders

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

I understand distinguished Senator David Mark, the President of the Senate of the Federal Republic, is a very pious man. I don’t know Mr. Mark personally, but those who know him say the retired general is one person who pursues his cause with the zeal of a soldier. It was this zeal that he brought […]

Dickson prescribes death sentence for kidnappers

Posted by admin Headlines, State News Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has prescribed death penalty for kidnappers. A bill to this effect will be forwarded to the State House of Assembly for passage into law. The State House of Assembly in 2012 passed into law, an Executive bill prohibiting Secret Cult, Kidnapping and related vices. Making this […]

Nigeria’s migrant remittance hits £13bn

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Nigerian citizens living in different parts of the world are estimated to have remitted home £13.3 billion in 2012. The amount ranks first in Africa and fifth largest beneficiaries in the world, a global report has revealed. Nigerian migrants had in 2011 recorded highest remittance by citizens of any African countries living in the Diaspora […]

Bayelsa declares zero tolerance for crimes

Posted by admin Headlines, State News Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Bayelsa State security outfit, code named, Operation Doo-Akpor, in the last one year, has arrested over 600 suspects for criminal related offences and handed them over to the appropriate security agency for further interrogation and prosecution in accordance with the state criminal law. Also, in order to enhance the safety of lives and property on […]

18 Nigerians languish in Indonesian prisons

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, February 1st, 2013

By VINCENT UJUMADU, awka NO fewer than 18 Nigerians are presently languishing in various prisons in Indonesia with the fear that some of them may be among 10 slated for execution soon. The18 Nigerians were condemned to death by the Indonesian courts in 2008 for their alleged various criminal offences ranging from drug peddling and […]

Afcon: We’ll hold our heads high if…. Keshi (Already making excuses for failure?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, February 1st, 2013

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi said yesterday that in the event of the team losing to the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire, his boys would hold their heads high in defeat. “Everybody claims that Cote d’Ivoire are the best team in Africa. They have been together for long and my team are a young team that […]

18 killed as JTF, Boko Haram members clash

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines Friday, February 1st, 2013

seventeen members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, and one Joint military Task Force (JTF) personnel were said to have been killed in two operations conducted by the JTF, supported by Nigerian Airforce gunship, to dislodge terrorists’ camps located in Sambisa Games Reserve in Bama Local Government and Farin-Ruwa Forest, South West/East of Demboa […]

Quote me, Chime ‘ll return in 10 days —Akpabio

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Headlines, State News Friday, February 1st, 2013

THE intrigues that followed the absence of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State from office over ill-health may soon be laid to rest, as his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Governor Godswill Akpabio, on Friday, hinted that Governor Chime, who has been hospitalised in a London hospital since September 2012, would return to the country in […]