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Daily Archives: Aug 1, 2012

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Playing Nigeria Was Dangerous —Lithuania Coach

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:London 2012 Olympics/News/Sports

Lithuania basketball coach revealed after beating his African foes that he never took the encounter lightly because he knew how talented and dangerous the Nigerian team is. Nigeria is 21st in the world why Lithuania is 5th. Kestutis Kemzura said he kne...

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Nigeria Begins Weightlifting Battle Today

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:London 2012 Olympics/News/Sports

Team Nigeria weightlifters will today and Friday begin their quest for medals at the London Olympics Games. Felix Ekpo is expected to battle for the ultimate prize in the sport today while Mariam Usman is up on Friday in the women’s category. Ekp...

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Why We Lost — D’Tigers’ Coach

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:London 2012 Olympics/News/Sports

D’Tigers’ chief coach, Ayo Bakare has expressed displeasure over the inability of the basketball team to repeat the defeat they handed the world’s best fifth team Lithuania yesterday. Nigeria defeated the Lithuanians during the Olympi...

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Oil Rig Repair Deal At LADOL To Save Country N2.5bn

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Business/Money/News

Ongoing repair and maintenance of the Noble Percy Jones, a giant oil rig at the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL) is said to save the country $16.5 million (N2.5 billion) in capital flight, which is the cost of the job and directly create abou...

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Jonathan Must Buckle Up To Govern Nigeria — Harry

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Prince Billy Harry is the President, Forum of South-South Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture. In this interview with OLAOLU OLADIPO, he speaks on a wide range of issues affecting the country and calls on President Goodluck Jonathan t...

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Milan Must Be Like Barca — Berlusconi

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has admitted that the club’s financial problems mean that they must now strive to develop great players, just as Barcelona have done, rather than embark upon any more “shopping sprees”, as they did dur...

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Unity, Passion Lead To Success — Mourinho

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has admitted that he finds it difficult to explain exactly why he has enjoyed such remarkable success during his career, joking that he is “not even the boss at home”, so he has no idea how he manages to run ...

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FCT FA Tasks Private Organisations On Sports Sponsorship

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Football Association (FA) Chairman, Alhaji Musa Saeed Talle has called on corporate organizations in the country to support the various relevant organs in development of football in the country, saying government alo...

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Sharks FC Involved In Auto Crash

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

The Port-Harcourt side could not continue their journey to Kaduna after they were involved in an accident in Auchi. Players and officials of Sharks may not honour the Week 36 Nigeria Premier League game against Kaduna United as they were involved in an...

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Rangers In Talks With S/Africa’s Sundowns

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

Nigeria Premier League (NPL) club, Enugu Rangers have revealed they are in talks with Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs; Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns over partnerships that would see the teams “exchange ideas and forge a fruitful alliance....

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Nigeria’s Ideye Continues Goal Scoring Spree

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:Football/News/Sports

Brown Ideye continued his impressive run in the new 2012/13 Ukraine Super League with two goals in Dynamo Kyiv’s 3-1 win over Hoverla-Zakarpattia on Saturday. But Ideye left it very late to help Kyiv to the victory. Hoverla-Zakarpattia took the l...

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Lawyers Sue Jonathan Over $44bn Debt

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:News

Five Abuja based lawyers have dragged President Goodluck Jonathan before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over Nigeria’s increasing debt profile of $44 billion. They also slammed his failure to set limit to the amount of consolidated debt of...

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No Friction In Presidential Media Team – Abati

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:News/Politics

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, yesterday denied any existing conflict in the management of the president’s media and information process. This was even as he said that the newly appointed Senior Special...

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Ghana Sends Delegation To Jonathan Over Atta-Mills

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:News

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, received a five-man delegation from Ghana, led by that country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration,  Alhaji Muhammad Mumuni. He brought a special message from President John Dramane ...

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Dana Crash: Witness Gives Account Of Last 15 Minutes Of The Flight

  • Post author:Leadership Newspapers
  • Post published:Aug 1, 2012
  • Post category:News

Lagos Coroner, Mr. Komolafe Oyetade  was, yesterday, intimated of the last 15-minute  journey of the ill- fated Dana airline flight 0992 before it crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3, 2012. A witness, Mr. Rafiq Olubukola Arogunjo, an Air T...

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