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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal remain on course to meet in the Indian Wells Masters quarter-finals after both reached the last 16 in California. Swiss star Federer, ranked second in the world, beat Croatia’s Ivan Dodig 6-3 6-1 in the third round....
The 2013 FOSLA U-13 football championship holds next month at the FOSLA Academy, Karshi with over 150 youth players from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) expected to compete for the Sani Lulu Abdullahi annual scholarship award. Ten outstanding playe...
Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has been ruled out for three weeks with an ankle injury and will miss England’s World Cup qualifiers against San Marino and Montenegro this month. The injury also rules the 21-year-old out of Arsenal’s Champ...
World Footballer of the year Lionel Messi, David Villa and Jordi Alba last night completed a great escape for Catalan giants Barcelona to reach the last eight in the Champions League. The Blaugrana produced a magnificent comeback at home to recover fro...
Arsenal of England are eyeing an unlikely upset against four-times European champions Bayern Munich today at the Football Arena, in Munich. This is coming as Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes has refused to accept the favourites tag for the title this season....
Following a report by LEADERSHIP and the intervention of the National Human Right Commission (NHRC), Samaila Belllo, the man who was handcuffed to a hospital bed for one year, has been arraigned before an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada and has been gra...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday assured the international community that his administration is putting intensive effort to curb terrorism and other criminal acts such as kidnapping and hostage taking in the country. Speaking when he received a 45...
A Nigerian Islamist group that killed seven foreign hostages it had been holding since February has posted a video of what it said was their bodies on the internet, Reuters reports. Italian and Greek authorities confirmed on Sunday that a Briton, an It...
The Minister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro yesterday informed the BBC Hausa service that there was no confirmation the kidnapped foreign hostages were dead. He said, “As long as it remains unconfirmed, efforts will be made to ensure their rescue and...
The European Union has expressed shock on the killing of some of its citizens by members of Islamists sect, Ansaru recently, and said that the incidence has demanded closer collaboration between the Union and the country in the fight against terrorism....
The House of Representatives committee on Public Accounts has queried the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) over a discrepancy of N7.935 billion in internally generated revenu...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s tactless show during his belated visit to Borno and Yobe States last week has worsened the Boko Haram insurgency that has killed and maimed hundreds of innocent peop...
Andy Murray flirted with disaster in the desert for a third straight year before seeing off Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy at Indian Wells. The Briton had suffered surprise losses on his last two visits to the BNP Paribas Open but battled past the world...
Chelsea interim boss Rafael Benitez has said Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson ignored his handshake before Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final. The pair have had an increasingly fraught relationship since the Spaniard’s time at Liverpo...
Tiger Woods wrapped up a dominant win at the World Golf Championships tournament at Doral with a two-shot victory over Steve Stricker. Graeme McDowell’s day fell apart on the back nine and the Northern Irishman tied for third with Adam Scott, Ser...