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The 18th National Sports Festival tagged Eko 2012, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) is organising a one-day seminar that will have international sports administrators. Chief Executive Officer of the 2012 South Africa FIFA World CupDirector, Danny J...
The world’s Most Valuable Football Club, Manchester United has approved two UEFA Grade A coaches for the Glo Soccer Academy as 33 talented African footballers moved into the Academy House over the weekend. The coaches will arrive Nigeria next wee...
Former Super Falcons’ coach, Ntiero Effiom Ntiero believes Golden Eaglets will beat the Junior Eagles of Mali for the Morocco 2013 ticket. The Eaglets edged the Malians 2-0 in the first fixture final round African Under17 championship qualifier a...
Alhaji Ganiyu Olayiwola Oyeduntan is a chieftain of Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) and former Commissioner for Heath under Chief Adebisi Akande between 1999 to 2003.In this chat with LEADERSHIP’s SEFIU AYANBIMPE, Oyeduntan talks on the lingering c...
Issues around Nigeria’s petroleum sector topped deliberation in the House of Representatives last week. EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE reports on concluded debates on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) and the probe report on incessant fuel scarcities across t...
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has arraigned a 41 year old housewife, Mrs Comfort Amos, before a chief magistrate court in Zone 6, Wuse, Abuja for abducting a nine months old baby at Redeemed Christian Church of God (Central Parish...
A Clash seems inevitable as the Transport Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) yesterday revealed plans to concession new parking companies to handle Pay ‘n’ Park projects within the Federal Capital City (FCC)....
Islington-born Nigerian Striker Saheed Adebayo Akinfenwa took his goal tally for the season to 12 as Northampton Town FC defeated Wycombe Wanderers in an Npower League Two clash at Sixfields, Northampton, UK on Saturday.
The 2012 presidential, legislative and Governorship elections in the United States have been won and lost but there are still some hurdles that the elected president, Mr. Barrack Obama, state governors and legislators from both the Democratic and...
Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Prof Adebowale Adefuye and the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN have both agreed to work together towards the elimination of terrorism in Nigeria, even if through different approaches. ...
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon yesterday highlighted the importance of road safety in preventing more than one million people from dying and many more from getting injured each year in traffic accidents. “This year, the ...
Only recently, an unprecedented tragedy unfolded in the Niger Delta Region, with surging flood spreading through the East-West Road which is the flagship project of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. Terrified by the surging water which rendered dist...
About 300 Nigerians living in the Republic of Botswana have been deported back to Nigeria by the Lieutenant General Seretse Khama Ian Khama administration in the past few months following refusal of the authorities to renew their permits. Perturbed by ...
Gunmen, yesterday, wreaked havoc in Kaduna and Bauchi states when two policemen and other civilians were killed in an orgy of bloodshed. In Kaduna, the gunmen riding on a motorbike shot and killed one police officer, Corporal Bejamin Sule and one other...
A Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the National Assembly to direct President Goodluck Jonathan to stop the about to be taken $7.9 billion foreign loan. Instead, he urged the government to recover billions of dollars the Nigerian National ...