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Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has won the 30th edition of the Annual Public Service Games tagged ‘Calabar 2011.’ The games came to a climax last Sunday in Calabar, Cross Rivers State capital. NSCDC emerged the overall win...
Assistant coaches of Nigeria’s U-17 team, the Golden Eaglets have rejected a N350,000-monthly pay, according to top officials of the federation. The Eaglets chief coach is Manu Garba, while his assistants are Emmanuel Amuneke, Nduka Ugbade and Em...
After resigning as coach of the national U-23 team, Austin Eguavoen is in line for a sensational return to two-time African champions Enyimba. The former Olympic team coach and Niger Tornadoes handler Justin Tenger are the main candidates to be named t...
Ghana and Marseille winger Andre “Dede” Ayew has signed a new contract with the Ligue 1 club, extending his stay until 2015. The announcement was made on the French giants’ website following Ayew’s naming as the 2011 BBC African...
Chelsea captain John Terry has injured his ankle. He sustained the injury during a training session. He is however expected to be fit to face Tottenham this Thursday, despite the injury. The England skipper was helped from the training ground after app...
The Galadima of Adamawa, Alhaji Murtala Aminu, has resigned from the Emirate Council and given up the title (Galadima) after 24 years of service. This is just as the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad, is making efforts to end the crisis in ...
Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday, said contrary to the practice in the past, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) no longer dictates programmes for Nigeria to implement. The m...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday told the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms. Christine Lagarde that Nigerians have since become wary and skeptical of dealings with the IMF in the aftermath of the Structural Adjustment ...
A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday admitted Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume to bail in the sum of N25 million with two sureties. The court had earlier dismissed the objection raised against his bail application by the Federal Government, saying i...
A bomb in an illegal armoury factory allegedly owned by members of the Boko Haram Islamic sect on Monday, exploded in Kaduna, injuring 4 persons including a police officer. LEADERSHIP had reported that there were indications of impending attacks ...
Few national leaders die these days with no one outside their country knowing about it. For more than 48 hours. Not even a mention on Twitter. Yet apparently no one, including South Korean intelligence services, was aware that North Korean leader Kim J...
No fewer than 20,000 ghost workers have been detected on the pay roll of the 25 Local Government Areas in Niger, the Commissioner for Local Government Affairs, Alhaji Garba Tagwai, has said. Tagwai, who made the disclosure in Minna on Monday while brie...
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Lagos Chapter, on Monday threw its weight behind the toll system introduced on the Lekki/Epe expressway in Lagos by the state government. The CNPP lauded the initiative as protests continued to trail...
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) says that consumers in Umuahia owe it more than N930 million. The Umuahia Business Unit Manager, Mr Vincent Ekwekwu, who made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Umuahia on...
Like human needs which are insatiable, the needs of end-users of foreign exchange have increasingly become insatiable. Matters are made worse with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) constrained by the absence of a deep wallet. The result is that the cen...