Flying Eagles coach, John Obuh has described the round of 16 clash against England which produced only a goal from the team that has netted 13 goals so far as a difficult match. Obuh said the encounter was tactical, difficult and affected the Nigerian ...
Nigeria’s senior women’s national team, the Super Falcons are intensifying training for the Olympics qualifier game against the Lionesses of Cameroon. To ensure that they book the Olympic ticket, the team is training twice daily. The coache...
Minister of Sports and chairman, National Sports Commission, Yusuf Suleiman has congratulated the Flying Eagles for qualifying for the quarter finals of the on-going FIFA U-21 World Cup in Colombia. The coach John Obuh led boys Wednesday night defeated...
Tottenham’s Premier League match with Everton tomorrow has been postponed because of the riots in London.Civil unrest in and around Tottenham began last weekend and quickly spread to other areas of the capital and major cities across England. Pre...
Rafa Nadal is out of Montreal Masters. The Spanish world number two was stunned 1-6 7-6 7-6 by unheralded Croatian Ivan Dodig in his opening match of the tournament. Back in action for the first time since losing to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon fina...
Government workers in Akwa Ibom have put on hold their planned strike action slated for today over disagreement with the state government on the payment of the N18,000 minimum wage. The state chairman of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) Comrade Uyinm...
The chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Micah Jiba, gave a shocker yesterday, when he feigned ignorance of the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) profile of the area council. Jiba, who was addressing a pre-economic press conference or...
It was with great shock that I read a report entitled “Shi’ites Threaten Nigeria’s Security, say Islamic scholars” in the 7/7/2011 edition of The Nation newspaper. Shiites are the second of the two branches of Islam: Sunni and S...
Men of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kogi State have started monitoring sermons in mosques and churches as part of measures to prevent religious crisis in the state. The state director of the SSS, Mr Mike Fubara, told newsmen in Lokoja yesterday ...
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) said yesterday that the Commission would immediately move into the Bureau of Public Enterprise (BPE) to dig for details surrounding the recent sale of federal government’s five percent equity sha...
When the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) met with the countries security chiefs yesterday, the commission pushed for a review of the security preparations which were put in place during the elections with a view to improving on perform...
The Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) has thrown its weight behind the six-year single tenure being proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan. The chairman of the party, Chief Sam Nkire, who stated this at the special National Executive Committee (NEC) ...
Over two hundred homes and two thousand farmlands planted with crops such as yams, okra, melon, cocoyam and cassava in Ikom, in Cross River State, have been submerged in water following the overflow of Cross River. The property destroyed is estimated a...
Nicki Minaj is proving once again that she can hang with the fellas, she’s now the first female rapper to make the Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash Kings list. Making her debut at #15, the Barbie Doll rapper pulled in $6.5 million this past year...
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Feyemi has appealed to the Federal Government to assist the state in finding lasting solution to the menace of gully erosion and other ecological problems facing the area. He made the call yesterday in Abuja when he paid a c...