Heartland right-back, Chibuzor Okonkwo, is a big doubt for Super Eagles, Madagascar Sunday 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match.This is because he is currently away trying out with Ukraine Premier League side, FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.The 22-year-o...
All Africa Games medal hopeful, Blessing Okagbare placed fifth in the finals of the 100m event of the 13th IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, to signal her participation in the big league of global sprinters. She clocked 11.12 in the race ...
England-based duo of Victor Anichebe and John Mikel Obi are the first to arrive the camp of Nigeria’s Super Eagles in Abuja. Anichebe and Mikel arrived the team’s camp on Sunday ahead of the September 4 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matc...
MediaVision Limited, franchise owners of the Nigeria Bankers Games (NBG) has appointed Youdees Integrated Marketing Services (YISL) as consultants to the 2011 edition of the games which kicks off next Sunday, September 4 at the University of Lagos Spor...
A plane from the Nigerian Air Force has had to be escorted into Cambridge Airport by two RAF fighter jets. According to BBC, “The Hercules was flying into Cambridge for maintenance work but had a radio failure over France and was shadowed by figh...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has deployed 285 personnel on a 24-hour special patrol to ensure an accident-free Eid-el-Fitr celebration in Abuja.The FCT sector commander, Mr. Funmibi Olawoyin, who disclosed this in an interview with the New...
As Muslims across the world mark the end of Ramadan with the celebration of Eid-el-fitr, traders in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have decried low sales, which most of the described as unusual.LEADERSHIP reporters who visited major markets in th...
Following a recent assessment of the procurement process of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) by the Bureau for Public Procurement, CATHERINE AGBO writes on challenges before the administration and efforts at tackling them Ever ...
Fight broke out at the Appeal Court premises in Sokoto between National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and thugs few hours after they conducted a peaceful protest over the suspension of the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Salami....
Thirty-three persons have been confirmed dead in Yobe State following an outbreak of a killer disease many suspect to be cholera. The state commissioner for Health, Hajiya Fatsuma Talba, who confirmed the incident to newsmen in her office in Damaturu, ...
The Borno State police command yesterday confirmed the killing of the chairman, caretaker committee of Kukawa local government council, Alhaji Lawan Yarami,The Commissioner of Police, Mr Simeon Midenda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maidugur...
The authorities of Niger State Polytechnic, Zungeru, has announced the expulsion of 62 students for alleged involvement in examination malpractice.The rector, Alhaji Mohammed Gamaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zungeru yesterday that the s...
As Nigerian joins the rest of the moslem world in celebrating the Eid-el-Fitri marking the end of the Ramadan fasting , the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Tambuwal has urged Nigerians to eschew violence even as he decried the terror...
The Acting Governor of Niger State, Mr. Ahmed Musa Ibeto has urged Muslims to sustain the ideals of the month of Ramadan beyond the Ramadan period and use Id-El Fitr to pray for solution to the nation’s security challenges.Ibeto who spoke through...
Peace took flight from Jos, the capital of Plateau State, again yesterday. A clash between people claiming to be Muslims and Christians left no fewer than 22 people dead and about 50 others injured.The clash took place around Jakwano, Maternity Gada Bi...