27 January 2011 The 2011 CAF African Champions League gets underway this weekend, with no less than 46 teams competing in the first leg matches of the preliminary round. A further nine seeded teams Al Ittihad (Libya), Al Merreikh (Sudan), Dynamos (Zimbabwe), Esperance (Tunisia), Stade Malien (Mali), Al-Hilal (Sudan), TP Mazembe (DR Congo), ES Setif (Algeria) and Al Ahly (Egypt)…
For her love for her career and good money of course, controversial Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson has shaved her hair completely for the second time. On set of a movie which continues filming through this week, the lady who’s described as Nigeria’s Kim Kardashian (without the face that is) went bald last Saturday to play a widow role. With the…
Regenerated actress Ibinabo Fiberesima who’s since moved on with her life after her traumatic experience has returned to the Kirikiri maximum prison to extend a hand of help to the prisoners. The actress, was in a Lagos High court during the week to demand for justice for two prisoners whom she said have been standing trial for the past five…
Award winning Nigerian comedian (who’s more popular in the UK), Tunde Ednut, has announced basic requirements for his future wife. The good looking and outrightly witty short comedian says a woman without the back props could pass but one without (adequate) frontal weight is a no-go area. Tunde Ednut He tweeted on Tuesday: “MY WIFE MUST HAVE YANSH (Not really…
Cocoa hit a one-year high on Monday after Ivory Coast’s presidential claimant, Alassane Ouattara, locked in a standoff against incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, urged a month-long ban on exports from the world’s top producer. Dealers said prices were rising as the international market was thrown into turmoil on uncertainty over what Ouattara’s call meant, given that Gbagbo controls the supply pipeline…
New vehicle imports into Nigeria declined 18 percent in 2010, reflecting weak credit growth in sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy in the wake of a $4 billion bank bailout the previous year. Vehicle sales in Africa’s most-populous nation are a proxy measure for private purchasing power, a leading economic indicator which is not formally available in Nigeria. Port figures showed new…
26 January 2011 Barcelona put one foot in the Kings Cup final with a brace from Lionel Messi sealing a thumping 5-0 semi-final first leg win over Almeria at Camp Nou on Wednesday. Three goals in the opening quarter hour put Barcelona in total command and now Barcelona, who have won the Kings Cup a record 25 times, appear a…
27 January 2011 Disgraced FIFA and CAF executive Amos Adamu is confident his appeal against a three-year ban will be successful just as the Nigerian government has taken a special interest in the case. A source close to Adamu told MTNFootball.com that it was all a set-up against the top official and with the government now in the full picture…
Five National Youth Serving Corps members, a councilor, and an ad hoc staff are standing trial for allegedly diverting the Direct Data Capturing [DDC] machines and other materials meant for the ongoing voter registration exercise. The corps members are Makinwa Michael, Ovat Benard, Mustapha Yahaya, Osha Tolulope and Chinyere Okoye while the councilor is Effiong Edet Oqua representing Idundu Ward…
At least five people died in the early hours of Tuesday in an auto crash that occurred along the Akure/Ilesha expressway. The accident which involved a Mercedez-Benz truck with registration number XCC739RSH and a Nissan Sunny commercial vehicle with number AE341BKN occurred around 6 o’clock in the morning. Eye witnesses said that the Mercedez truck which was heading towards Akure…
The Independent National Electoral Commission in Ondo State yesterday said that it has registered over 600,000 voters since the exercise started on January 15. The commission also said that it has received an additional 527 Direct Data Capturing machines to address the hitches being recorded in the exercise. The administrative secretary of the commission, Folarin Awujoola, said this in a…
Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee raised its benchmark interest rate to 6.5 percent on Tuesday as it seeks to get inflation in sub-Saharan Africa’s second-biggest economy down to single digits. The MPC maintained a corridor of plus/minus 200 basis points around the benchmark rate for its lending and deposit rates respectively but increased the cash reserve requirement ratio to 2 percent…
The Public Complaints Commission in Anambra received 388 complaints from persons in private and public organisations on acts of injustice against them in 2010. The Director of the Commission, Emeka Onuzulike, gave the figure in Awka on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.Mr Onuzulike said that 206 of the cases have been resolved, while the other…
Mozambique’s Ports Development Company (MPDC) said on Tuesday it would increase the handling capacity of its Maputo port to 12 million tonnes this year from the 8.7 million of 2010 to take more coal from South Africa. “We will use Maputo port as a gateway to the most important world markets,” MPDC chief executive Dave Rennie told a news conference…