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Helen Glover and Heather Stanning confirmed their status as gold medal favourites as they stormed into the final of the women's pair in a new Olympic record time. Roared on by a packed crowd at Eton Dorney, Glover and Stanning won the opening heat ...
Mark Cavendish's bid to claim Great Britain's first Olympic gold of the London 2012 Games on The Mall was ended as Kazakhstan's Alexandr Vinokourov triumphed in a dramatic men's road race. Cavendish, the world champion and winner of 23 ...
An archer from the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in London on Friday became the first athlete to set new world record in the 2012 Olympic Games. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent reports that Korea's Im Dong-hyun broke his own 72-arr...
Top sports stars Usain Bolt and Novak Djokovic were the cynosure of many eyes on Friday during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that they drew much of the attention as they led out...
Barely 48 hours after three police officers were ambushed and killed by unknown gunmen along Bauchi-Gombe road, another police officer has been assassinated at his residence in Bauchi. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the deceased, Abdulla...
A defiant Michael Phelps insisted Saturday he remained in the running for a third straight Olympic 400m medley gold despite scraping into the final in the eighth and last spot. “A final spot is a final spot,” said Phelps, whose 14 Olympic g...
Olympic athletes using drugs were warned “we are going to catch you” Saturday after the London Games were hit by their first doping case on the opening day of full competition. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the case of Alba...
London – Nigerians resident in the UK joined others in cheering Team Nigeria as they file pass during opening ceremony at the Olympic stadium in London. The Nigeria Hospitality House at Stratford, the Olympic site reports that most Nigerians, who...
China’s world number one Yi Siling won the first gold of the London Olympics in the women’s 10m air rifle competition at London’s Royal Artillery Barracks on Saturday. In a tense contest watched by International Olympic Committee pres...
The Kwara Government has set aside 4,000 hectares of land for setting up of farm settlements across seven local government in the state. The state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr Bode Olayemi, told News Agency of Nigeria (N...
For twenty years the people of the highly impoverished village of Durumi III in the Garki area of the Federal Capital City, Abuja, watched in horror as the main bridge to their community suffered in the hands of erosion and flood. Knowing fully t...
The local government council chairmen, recently recalled in Imo state yesterday, shunned governor Rochas Okorocha’s invitation to dialogue on the lingering crisis in the councils, despite the victory accorded the chairmen at the appeal court. Aft...
The Edo State police command, yesterday paraded five suspected kidnappers in Benin City, the state capital. The state police public relations officer, Anthony Airhuoyo, while parading the suspects, told journalists that they had made confessional state...
As the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won all the 20 local councils and 226 out of the 236 councillorship seats in the recent poll in Ogun State, the opposition is alleging foul play. The unfolding scenario is spawning considerable controversy...
The directorate of the State Security Service (DSS) in Kwara State yesterday paraded seven students of one of the Colleges of Education in the state over alleged abduction, rape, cultism, and for being in possession of fake currency notes. The suspects...