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Tricky draws for U-20 Eagles, Eaglets

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, December 10th, 2012

раскрутка сайтов NIGERIA was handed a mixed bag of draws on Sunday as the Golden Eaglets were paired in the same group as perennial rival, Ghana, in the 2013 African U-17 Champioships scheduled for Morocco. For the 2013 African U-20 Championships holding in Algeria, defending champions the Flying Eagles will do battle in Group B […]

Team Delta wins Eko 2012 as cash rain awaits them

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Monday, December 10th, 2012

TEAM Delta has emerged winner of the 18th National Sports Festival, Eko 2012 which ended on Sunday at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, amid pomp and ceremony. Delta amassed 116 gold, 97 silver and 75 bronze medals to dethrone Team Rivers which finished second with 76 gold, 71 silver and 71 bronze medals while the […]

Election Monitoring: Embarrassed ECOWAS Vows Never to Invite Obasanjo Again

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, December 10th, 2012

Posted: December 10, 2012 – 04:05 Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Ghanaian President elect, John Dramani Mahama-Photo: Reuters By SaharaReporters, New York Following embarrassing and undemocratic utterances by General Olusegun Obasanjo at yesterday’s meeting of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the leadership of the commission today held a review meeting that […]

Ghana’s president re-elected as opposition rejects results

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, December 10th, 2012

Ghana’s main opposition party says it is considering legal action to annul President John Mahama’s victory in Friday’s fiercely contested election. NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey told the BBC it would decide on Tuesday whether there was “robust” evidence to prove the result had been manipulated. The election commission said Mr Mahama had secured 50.7% […]

Okada rider electrocuted to death in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, December 10th, 2012

A man suspected to be an okada rider was on Saturday evening electrocuted to death in Ejigbo, Lagos State. The deceased, identified as Oche Samuel, was said to have met his death at the shop of a motorcycle mechanic in the area. It was learnt that the deceased had taken his bike for repairs before […]

Couple arrested for dumping day-old baby inside bush

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Monday, December 10th, 2012

The police in Ekiti State have arrested a couple, Mr. Dada Ojo and his wife, Adejoke, for allegedly dumping their newborn baby inside a bush. Our correspondent learnt on Sunday that the woman and her husband were arrested on Friday. A source in the community said the cry of the baby in the bush attracted […]

My generation has moved beyond civil war – Fashola

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, December 10th, 2012

Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola said post-civil war generation of Nigerians has moved beyond the sad episode and has resolved to ensure that the union of various ethnic groups in the country live in harmony. The governor said this in his speech at the 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa in Rhode Island, United States of […]

Mikel banned, fined for confronting Clattenburg

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, December 7th, 2012

Mikel Obi has been hit with a three-match ban and fined £60,000 for his part in the Mark Clattenburg race row debacle. The Chelsea midfielder ran into the referee’s dressing room at the end of Chelsea’s defeat against Manchester United in October and confronted him over an alleged racial slur. Mikel had already admitted a […]

Man accused of killing pregnant lover

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, December 7th, 2012

The family of a lady, Gloria Akpan, has accused their daughter’s lover, Ita Eyo, of killing her in his residence in Ayobo area of Ogun State. Gloria and Eyo both from Akwa Ibom State had been cohabiting since March 2012 before the sad incident occurred on November 3. The lady was six-month pregnant before she […]

Police nab ‘Tokyo’ factional leader of Oyo NURTW

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Thursday, December 6th, 2012

Oyo State Police Command has arrested Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, a factional leader of the state’s National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW). His arrest was made public in Ibadan yesterday in a release issued by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in the state, Clement Adoda. Adoda said Akinsola, popularly known as ‘Tokyo,’ was undergoing […]