Ex-Nigeria U17 coach, Willy Bazuaye dies at 79
Former head coach of Nigeria’s U17 male national team, Willy Bazuaye has died after a 12-years battle with stroke in Benin on Monday. He was aged 79. The Edo-born tactician, who terminated his services...
View ArticleDangote Refinery to start operation by 2017
A new $9 billion oil refinery producing 500,000 barrels per day being developed by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is expected to come onstream in Nigeria by 2017, a senior Dangote Group official...
View Article‘Chelsea, Man Utd ready to pay £55m for Pogba’
JUVENTUS chief Giuseppe Marotta admits clubs interested in Paul Pogba are prepared to pay between £50m and £55m in the summer. The France international has been heavily linked with a move away from...
View ArticleISIS beheads 4 pro-govt recruiters in Iraq
The Islamic State group posted pictures Tuesday of the beheadings of four men it said were recruiters for pro-government militia fighting its militants in northern Iraq. The images show four men...
View ArticleElections: Jonathan, Jega, security chiefs in crucial meeting
President Goodluck Jonathan, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, and heads of security agencies are currently having a crucial meeting at the Presidential...
View ArticleFootball: Amokachi invites 27 for Bolivia, South Africa friendlies
Nigeria interim coach Daniel Amokachi has invited 10 home-based players and 17 overseas-based boys to camp ahead of this month’s international friendlies against Bolivia in Uyo and South Africa in...
View ArticleNigerian support military with N1m
President Goodluck Jonathan is presiding over a National Security Council meeting with all the security chiefs in attendance. Also attending the meeting is the chairman of the Independent National...
View ArticlePakistan executes 12 convicts by hanging
Pakistan has hanged 12 convicts, the largest number of people executed on the same day since the country overturned a ban on executions. The men were terrorists, murderers or guilty of “heinous...
View ArticleFrench lawmakers vote in favour of ‘mercy-killing’
French lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday in favour of a law allowing medics to place terminally ill patients into a deep sleep until they die. The law, which has re-ignited the deeply divisive...
View ArticlePolice arrest man with 14 PVCs in Oyo
The Oyo State Police Command has arrested a suspect with 14 PVCs in his possession near a supermarket in Ogbomoso. The suspect who claimed the PVCs were given to him for keeps by his relatives and...
View ArticleDozens of Atiku support group defect to PDP
With almost eleven days before Nigerians go to the polls, a total of 120 groups loyal to former presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress Atiku Abubakar have decamped to the Peoples’...
View ArticleTonight’s UCL fixtures: Barcelona v Man City, Borussia Dortmund v Juventus
Tonight’s UCL fixtures: Barcelona v Man City, Borussia Dortmund v Juventus.
View Article8 tourists killed, many held hostage in Tunisia parliament attack
At least eight tourists were killed and others were taken hostage by militants who attacked Tunisia’s parliament compound, which includes a museum, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on...
View ArticleJonathan appoints new FIRS chairman
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday approved the appointment of Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan as the Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS. Ogungbesan’s appointment was...
View ArticleChelsea ready to splash audacious £150m on Madrid duo
CHELSEA are reportedly ready to splash the cash on Real Madrid duo Gareth Bale and Raphael Varane. Italian news outlet Tuttomercatoweb claims the Blues will offer the Spanish giants an eye-watering...
View ArticleUPDATED: 17 european tourists killed in Tunisia museum attack
Nineteen people, including 17 foreign tourists have been killed after gunmen targeted a museum in the Tunisian capital, the Prime Minister says. Italian, Spanish and German citizens were among those...
View ArticleCourt confirms Gambo Lawal Borno PDP candidate
The Federal High Court in Abuja has confirmed Gambo Lawal, as the veritable Borno State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in the 2015 governorship election. Details later…
View ArticleDrive tobacco companies out of business, WHO urges
World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan urged global action on Wednesday to drive tobacco companies “out of business” and hailed progress in tackling smoking in many countries. Speaking at the...
View ArticleBolivia pull out of Nigeria friendly
Bolivia have pulled out of the international friendly against the Super Eagles billed for Uyo on March 26, 2015. The Bolivian Football Federation said on its websites that it had to rescind the...
View ArticleISIS attacks Libyan hospital
ISIS militants kidnapped 20 foreigners working at a Libyan hospital, then released them — under the condition, if they want to live, that they stay put so they can treat members of the Islamist...
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