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President of the Senate, Senator David Mark has charged the Super Eagles to rise to the occasion and defeat their Guinean counterparts in tomorrow’s Nation’s Cup qualifier. Senator Mark also redeemed the N1.6 million pledge he made to all t...
The Group Managing Director of LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPERS Group, Mr Azubuike Ishiekwene will tomorrow alongside top government dignitaries and corporate moguls tee-off the very prestigious Corporate Golf Tournament at the Ikoyi Club, Lagos. Organisers, MEDI...
National U-23 coach, Austin Eguavoen has charged the 30 invited players for the first phase of the Dream Team V camping exercise, in preparation for the upcoming CAF U-23 championship which serves as the London 2012 Olympic qualifier to count themselve...
The Super Falcons have been promised a 100 percent increase in their match bonuses if they qualify for next year’s Olympic Games. The Falcons will travel to Cameroon for the second leg of their 2012 Olympic qualifier on October 22, with a slim 2-...
International trade on the West African coasts is witnessing unprecedented growth as recent survey in the region’s ports show an increase of 364 per cent in cargo traffic. Speaking to journalists in Lagos, the Director Advocacy, Nigerian Chamber ...
The Borno Government had said that it would reactivate the 67,000 hectares South Chad Irrigation Project (SCIP) located on Lake Chad shores. The project, which was conceived by the Federal Government in the 70's, had been abandoned for years...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has blamed the shortage of vaccines being experienced across the states of the federation on the recent bomb blast at the United Nations House. The acting executive director of t...
The trial of the December 25, 2009 airline bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, has gone tough and could as well become a potential issue in jury selection as his legal adviser on Wednesday threatened to challenge the prosecutors if they try to di...
The United Nations marked the World Teachers’ Day yesterday with a warning that 6.1 million more teachers were needed to meet the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of attaining universal primary education by 2015. Two milli...
A former member of the upper chamber of National Assembly and elder statesman, Senator Suleiman Salawu, has declared that the much expected Yoruba leader will emerge soon. Salawu, who disclosed this in Osogbo yesterday in an exclusive...
Oprah Winfrey is the highest-earning woman in entertainment, according to Forbes magazine. The former talk show host earned $290 million from May 2010 to May 2011, besting the second place earner, Lady Gaga, by $200 million. Here’s the ful...
In a frantic effort to effect absolute utilisation of the N34 billion Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund, the governors of the 36 states of the federation are poised to raise the issue at the National Economic Council (NEC) meeting scheduled to hold ...
An Israeli scientist, Daniel Shechtman, has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a material, quasicrystals, in which atoms were packed together in a well-defined pattern that never repeats. Such regular but non-repeating patte...
Niger State Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu has said that the mass failures recorded in schools was an indication of poor teaching and learning, and an embarrassment to teachers. Governor Aliyu who was represented by the Deputy Governor, Hon Ahmed...
The Federal High Court in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State, yesterday ruled on its earlier judgement directing the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue a certificate of returns to Solomon Ewuga, one time minister of stat...