24 April 2011 Tunisian outfit Esperance led a show of force by clubs from northern countries in African Champions League last-16 ties this weekend. The 'Blood and Gold' were ahead within two minutes against Senegalese visitors Diaraf and romped to a 5-0 victory that virtually assures them of a mini-league place after the early May return fixture. Wydad Casablanca of…
25 April 2011 Super Eagles of Nigeria coach, Samson Siasia, would pick the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon as opponents for a friendly to mark next months inauguration of the countrys president, Goodluck Jonathan, who was recently re-elected. MTNFootball.com has scooped that Siasia would like to meet Cameroon because they would provide his team with a good test as well as…
Last week, the Court of Appeal in Abuja, in a reversal of an earlier judgment of a Federal High Court, ruled that Lawal Jafar Isa, and not Mohammed Sani Abacha, is the governorship candidate for Kano State of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). Before the judgment, the CPC looked set to clinch the governorship seat of Kano State in…
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23 April 2011 Sir Alex Ferguson urged caution as Manchester United kept their Premier League title charge firmly on course. A hard-fought 1-0 win over Everton on Saturday, United's 13th successive home league success this season, left Ferguson's leaders just two wins away from a record 19th domestic title. Javier Hernandez's goal piled the pressure on second placed Chelsea, who…
24 April 2011 Two goals in the second half from Stanley Okoro and Ramon Azeez saw Nigeria U20 beat Gambia U20 2-0 in their final Group B game of the African Youth Championship at BidVest Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The win sees the Flying Eagles into the semifinals of the competition while Gambia exit the tournament and will head home.…
On the morning of January 21, 2010, as five armed policemen escorted Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha into the black Toyota Prado SUV registered to the Imo State government house, his neighbours must have looked on with envy. They would have thought that Mr Iwuoha's activism had finally caught the attention of the authorities and that the government had decided to hush…
The just concluded national assembly elections revealed a peculiar trend among Imo politicians that clearly went beyond desperation to the point of paranoia. The state governor, Ikedi Ohakim, and an ambassador, Kema Chikwe, both of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), had played into the hands of opposition political parties through a series of perceived political misdeeds and miscalculations that…
On Tuesday, the people of Kwara will choose the person to govern their state for the next four years. There are 15 candidates on the ballot for the state governorship race, but a casual discussion with many residents of the state reveals that the contest is really between two factions of the state's number one political family; one headed by…
How would you like to spend your retirement years? Will your nest egg be able to provide the kind of lifestyle that you have become accustomed to and how much will it cost? Sadly, many people end up impoverished in their later lives or are totally dependent on their children or other family members. Yet other retirees are redefining retirement…
As more banks reel out their 2010 year end reports, industry watchers have observed that the sector has shown remarkable improvement and signs of quick recovery from the impact of the 2009 financial crisis. Most of their earnings are back in the green, although it has not been an entirely smooth ride. Finance experts think investors should keep an eye…
23 April 2011 The Nigeria Football Federation have doubled the win bonus of the national U-20 team, Flying Eagles, ahead of their must-win Group B match against Gambia on Sunday at the African Youth Championship in South Africa. At an afternoon meeting with other top NFF officials in Johannesburg on Friday, NFF president Aminu Maigari approved that the players should…
Apart from answering the nagging question of who will occupy the ‘Lion Building' government house for the next four years, Tuesday's governorship/house of assembly election in Enugu State will achieve two other main objectives. First, it will confirm the supremacy of one of the political parties operating in the state. Secondly, it will put to rest the issue of superiority…
Another set of 53 Nigerians were deported from the UK on Thursday after allegedly serving various jail terms for immigration-related offences. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that the deportees arrived at the cargo terminal of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport at about 6am aboard a special flight. An immigration source at the airport told NAN that the deportees…