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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Lithuania earned their first preliminary round victory of the London 2012 Olympic Games on Tuesday, a 72-53 triumph over Nigeria in group A of the men's basketball competition at the Basketball Arena.
Alhaji Aminu Soro, the Sokoto State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps ( NSCDC) said on Tuesday that proactive security measures had been adopted to confront terrorist attacks in the state. "We have deployed anti-bomb dispo...
The National Publicity Secretary of All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Mr Emma Eneukwu, said on Tuesday that the country was not ripe for the creation of state police. The National Publicity Secretary, Mr Emma Eneukwu, made the remark in an interview wi...