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Confederations Cup Oduamadi hat-trick sinks Tahiti
Nnamdi Oduamadi scored a hat-trick as Nigeria crushed a spirited Tahiti 6-1 in their Confederations Cup football Group B clash here at the Mineirao stadium. Uwa Echiejile opened the scoring Monday with a deflected long-range drive before Oduamadi danced around two defenders and coolly chipped over goalkeeper Xavier Samin, reports Xinhua. Oduamadi, AC Milan winger, then doubled his tally by ...
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Microsoft extends 9jApps contest for developers deadline
By Emeka Aginam The software giant, Microsoft Nigeria has formally announced the extension of its 9jApps contest deadline which originally ended on June 14, 2013 till July 19, 2013. The challenge which was launched on March this year was designed to empower local developers to take advantage of Microsoft's new tools and resources to develop locally appealing and locally-relevant apps for ...
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Confed Cup Is NigeriaTahiti match sign of things to come
By Ed Dove While the history books will forever record that Nigeria recorded an emphatic 6-1 victory over Tahiti to open their Confederations Cup campaign, that simple stat will never tell the story of a fascinating and engrossing contest. The reality is that the Super Eagles were wholly unimpressive yet never looked like losing a match that probably has no place at a major international ...
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TECNO joins Android fray with Phantom A
By Emeka Aginam TECNO Mobile on Monday in Lagos unveiled its latest Android smartphone series, Phantom A into the Nigeria market. With the new product designed to battle Samsung galaxy tab, the smart phone maker at the launch said that it was designed for users with higher demand from ...
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Sterling Bank raises fund to increase market share
By JONAH NWOKPOKU Sterling Bank Plc has commenced a capital raising exercise aimed at increasing its market share in the banking industry. The first step in this regard is a Rights Issue of N5, 888, 949, 162 ordinary shares of 50 kobo each at N2.12k per share. According to the rights circular made available at the company's completion board meeting held in Lagos, the offer is on the basis ...
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Nigeria in space by 2015 says Ewa
By EMMA ELEBEKE Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Ita Okon Ewa, has said that plans have been perfected to send the first Nigerian into space by 2015. This he said was part of a 25-year plan to establish Nigeria on the global map of space technology. The minister who stated this at the 2013 Ministerial Platform on Monday, also said that Nigerian universities must collaborate with ...
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Nigeria Is Caught Between Military Abuses and Islamist Rebels
Nigerian Army soldiers stand as part of preparations for deployment to Mali, at the Nigerian Army peacekeeping centre in Jaji, near Kaduna on January 17, 2013. (Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters) A month after President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency on northern Nigeria, the first eyewitness accounts are only now emerging about the Nigerian military's brutality. The state of ...
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Thiago hat-trick sees Spain retain U-21 title
Italy - leading 2-1 after this victory that handed them a fourth title - took less than seven minutes to open the scoring with a nicely worked goal. Isco, a target for Manchester City and Real Madrid, played a neat exchange of passes with Real Madrid youngster Alvaro Morata.Morata, scorer of three goals in the tournament, got to the byline on the left side of the box and put in the perfect cross ...
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Fighters in Nigeria attack school kill 9 students
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA: Suspected Islamic militants have opened fire on students taking exams at a school in the country's troubled northeast, killing at least nine pupils in the latest violence to wrack the volatile region, witnesses said on Tuesday. Bodies of the children in their school uniforms were brought to the local morgue, according to a hospital official who insisted on anonymity ...
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IBM offers tech solution to Lagos traffic
BY PRINCE OSUAGWU A team of IBM experts completing a month-long consulting assignment, at the weekend presented recommendations to the Lagos State Government which they believed could help ensure a more efficient flow of traffic in Lagos. Working with the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, the agency responsible for developing and implementing the state's transportation ...
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Embattled Tukur NWC members rush to Jonathan
By Henry Umoru ABUJA- THE Embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur and other members of the National Working Committee, NWC Tuesday held a marathon meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential villa. The meeting, Vanguard gathered, was part of moves by Tukur and his team to have a soft landing ahead of Thursday's National ...
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Kidnapped French sailor freed in Nigeria
French sailor Benjamin Elman, who was kidnapped last week, is pictured after his release on June 18, 2013 in Yenagoa, southern Nigeria. Elman was taken from a tanker in Togo when attackers sought to use him as a ...
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Stop patronising itinerant teachers Sultan urges parents
Sokoto – The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa'ad Abubakar III, on Tuesday urged parents to stop giving their children to itinerant teachers for Qur’anic education. Abubakar said this in Sokoto at the opening of a one-day national symposium on the almajiri education programme entitled, ';The Journey So Far''. The symposium was jointly organised by the Sokoto State ...
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Sony confirms Amazing Spider-Man 3 and 4
Sony Pictures has confirmed two more movies in its ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ franchise to be released in 2016 and 2018. Sony Pictures has confirmed two more ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ films. The movie studio will produce a total of four movies in the superhero franchise starring Andrew Garfield after setting release dates for a third and fourth film in 2016 and 2018, ...
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Bad leadership Only the truth can set us free says Adeoye-Davids
President of City With Foundations (CWF) a.k.a. Harvesters Fire Family Church, Senior Pastor Kunle Adeoye-Davids has identified lack of truth as the major problem of the country, reports ETOP EKANEM. He made this known during his church's monthly programme, tagged, Wealth Clinic Lagos at Excellence Hotel & Conference Centre, Ogba, Ikeja. According to him, "Until we are able to ...
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Nigerian LNG says gone to court over tax dispute
LAGOS, June 18 (Reuters) - Nigeria's Liquefied Natural Gas company (Nigeria LNG) said on Tuesday it had gone to court to seek "judicial clarity" over levies it believes are unlawful, a month after authorities blocked some of its ships from accessing the Bonny terminal. Nigeria LNG said it was now complying with a government directive to pay freight levies to maritime ...
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Father arraigned for beating his 14-yr-old child
Ibadan – A 43-year-old man, Lekan Adeoye, on Tuesday appeared before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates' Court for allegedly beating and inflicting injury on his 14-year-old child. The hearing of the case was, however, unable to commence due to the absence of the prosecution witnesses and Chief Magistrate Durosaro Kehinde-Tijani adjourned the case to July 4. The prosecutor, Insp Olufemi ...
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FG drops charges against Russian sailors for alleged unlawful arms importation
Lagos – The Federal Government on Tuesday dropped the charges against eight out of the 15 Russian sailors charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria. They are Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey, Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. The 15 sailorshad appearedbefore a Federal High Court, Lagos, on a ...
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FG approves cut-off marks for 20132014 UTME
Abuja – The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja approved cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2013/2014 academic session. The Minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, announced the cut-off marks into Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and other degree-awarding institutions as 150 while 180 is for federal ...
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SNC won’t solve Nigeria’s problem says Bishop Akinola
By Sam Eyoboka PRESIDING bishop of Rhema Christian Church & Towers, Sango Ota in Ogun State, Dr. Taiwo Akinola is opposed to current calls for sovereign national conference to solve the nation’s multi-faceted crisis, arguing that those calling for SNC are insincere ethnic champions. Addressing newsmen in his church office preparatory to the church’s All Believers’ Fire ...
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Kaduna Assembly passes no confidence vote on Commissioner
Kaduna – The Kaduna State House of Assembly has passed a vote of no confidence on the Commissioner for Water Resources, Mr John Ayuba, over poor implementation of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P). Ayuba was the commissioner of finance responsible for the SURE-P implementation before his recent deployment to water resources in a cabinet reshuffle. The assembly ...
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South West PDP endorses Jonathan for second term
Lagos – The South West chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in 2015. This is contained in a communiqu signed by the Chairman, South West Caretaker Committee of PDP, Chief Ishola Filani at the end of a meeting of the forum. The forum said it endorsed Jonathan because of his leadership qualities and transformation ...
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Nigeria rolls to 6-1 victory over Tahiti at Confederations Cup
The Toronto Comics Arts Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, has of late made its name bringing over cutting-edge Japanese artists for signings, live drawing sessions and speaking events. The atmosphere at this year’s event, held in May, in many ways like ...
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Nigerian Pastor Kidnaps Baby at Gunpoint Police Rescue Him From Lynching
Mbano Police recently rescued a Pentecostal Pastor and his wife from a possible lynching from town youth after they suspected his involvement in the kidnapping of a one-month-old baby in Nigeria this ...
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Refugee outflows resulting from Nigeria crisis spreading to Cameroon - UN agency
18 June 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency today reported that the ongoing crisis in north-eastern Nigeria is continuing to send people fleeing to Niger and now to Cameroon amid the insecurity resulting from confrontations between the army and insurgents. The Nigerian Government imposed a state of emergency on the Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states in the north-east of the country in ...
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Nigeria calling on US for misconception help
Nigeria is one of the main producers of drug lords and immigrants and is beset by political instability and groans under the weight of poverty and human strife. At least, this is the perception many in the world have, a perception that is all too narrow in its scope.
Nigeria has an enduring reputation as an exporter of criminals, drug lords, terrorists and immigrants. Such perceptions are only amplified by the recent attempted bombing of a US-bound plane on Christmas Day by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, or the arrests every year of various Nigerian drug lords in countries around the world. Read more
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