Aiming to model AFN Golden League after IAAF Diamond league, Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has opened its door to corporate organisations for sponsorship. AFN president, Solomon Ogba stated this during an interactive session with sports writers...
The president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Solomon Ogba, has said that unless Nigeria buckles up and prepares adequately for the Olympics, the country will be disappointed. Nigeria has been plagued by the perennial problem of shoddy preparat...
Two of the biggest teams in Europe, AC Milan and Barcelona will tonight renew their rivalry at the San Siro. Both teams have already qualified to the knockout stage and a victory for either side will see them top the group. In the first leg at the Nou ...
Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has earmarked the sum of three hundred and fifteen million naira (315m) for its programmes and activities next year. AFN president, Solomon Ogba, made this known yesterday at a press conference to unveil AFN’...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja yesterday ordered Senator Ali Mohammed Ndume to be remanded in the State Security Service (SSS) custody after he pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge bordering on breach of official trus...
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday disclosed that Nigeria now produced 2.6 million barrels of crude oil per day, out of which 670,000 barrels are from the deep offshore. Before now, the production level stood ...
The Court of Appeal in Lagos yesterday acquitted and discharged a former Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bello Lafiaji and his ex-special assistant, Usman Amali. In the judgment delivered by Justice Moham...
Thirty-six governors under the aegis of Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) yesterday held a crucial meeting that lasted over two hours before some of them (Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors) headed to Aso Rock Presidential Villa for a meeting ...
Ogun State governor, Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday faulted the claim of former Governor Gbenga Daniel that he inflated contracts for the purchase of Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs). Amosun, while reacting to a publication by a nationa...
The Central Bank of Nigeria’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) yesterday tactically devalued the naira from N150.00 to the US $1.00 to N160.00 to US$1.00 and maintained the band of +/-3.0 per cent. “This means that the naira should flo...
Rivers State Police Command yesterday arrested two members of a notorious armed robbery gang believed to have taken part in most of the violent armed robbery incidents recorded in Port Harcourt, the state capital and its environs in recent times. Polic...
His songs are party bangers! There is no way you would want to rate a Nigerian artiste without mentioning the award winning ‘Ten Over Ten’ crooner Naetochukwu Chikwe, popularly called Naeto C whose song has become a slang ...
Fuel queues yesterday re-surfaced at petrol stations in Abuja and other states of the federation forcing the price of the product to sell at as high as N72 a litre in some filling stations as against the official price of N65 a litre. Our correspondent...
In the latest piracy research for Nigeria, the value of PC Software theft reached a new peak at $225 million in 2010, as 82 per cent of software deployed on PCs during the year was pirated. Nigeria is experiencing a rising number of what has turn...
The naira came under pressure yesterday at the official and interbank market as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) failed to meet demand. The regulator sold $250 million out of the $419.22 million demanded at the official bi-weekly auction. This made th...