Hope of Nigeria hosting the African Cup of Nations in 2013 has been dashed. Consequently, Nigeria will not be able to host the continental fiesta following the decision of the Confederation of African Football to allow a swap between Libya and S...
Former marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie has shoved aside retirement insisting that he is not going anywhere but targeting success at the 2012 Games in London. The 38-year-old Ethiopian dropped out of his second succe...
Top seed Wozniacki has been edged out of Japan’s tennis championship. She was dumped in the first set against the Estonian world No.43 before hitting back with a dominant second set. But Kanepi regained her confidence to ou...
Tiger Woods and Bill Haas were both named on a powerful United States team for this year’s Presidents cup while the Australian pair of Robert Allenby and Aaron Baddeley filled the two International places as the rival captains revealed the...
Ajax coach, Frank de Boer has confessed his side were taught a lesson in counter-attacking in their 3-0 Champions League Group D loss against Real Madrid on Tuesday. The Eredivisie side started the match at Santiago Bernabeu bright...
Manchester City coach, Roberto Mancini has written off Argentine forward Carlos Tevez after the player refused to come on as a substitute during the 2-0 defeat by Bayern Munich in the Champions League. Mancini said Tevez is finished. The 27-year...
Super Falcons forward, Perpetua Nkwocha will lead 32 other players to confront Cameroon in the race to qualify Nigeria for next year’s Olympics in London. Coach Uche Eucharia invited 27 players from the domestic league and an additional si...
First Bank, Stanbic Bank Nigeria and other African banks have been given the 2011 African Banker Awards in Washington DC.,United States of America. While First Bank Nigeria Plc got the Most Innovative Bank of the Year award, Stanbic IBTC Bank ca...
The bulls upstaged the bears yesterday on the trading floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) resulting to a marginal appreciation in market capitalisation by N5billion. Yesterday, the few price gains recorded by some bluechip companies were e...
The Federal Government is to start a Cassava Marketing and Trading Corporation (CMTC) aimed at boosting cassava production. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, disclosed this in Abuja at a meeting with chi...
Borno State governor Alhaji Kashim Shettima stated yesterday that security forces have arrested a top commander of Boko Haram accused of orchestrating attacks on policemen and clerics. “I believe the worst is over,” Shettima to...
Senior Advocate of Nigeria Sebastian Hon and human rights activist Femi Falana have challenged the plan to shut down telecommunications services in Abuja on October 1 over security concerns. The duo, who spoke at separate interviews with L...
The 2011 Annual Lecture and Awards by Conferences Limited, a subsidiary of the LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, comes up in Abuja today. According to a statement by LEADERSHIP, the conference, which holds at the Ladi Kwali Hall of the Sheraton Hotel...
The Director General of Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), Mr Frank Nweke Jnr has admonished the governments at all levels to reassess their concept of security votes in line with the security needs of the country. Nweke said this has become impera...
Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has blamed wrong government policies for the extinction of the once-flourishing textiles and plastics industry in the country. He told the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday that the `death’ of those industries...