Voting was underway in Tanzania on Sunday as the president seeks a second term in the relatively peaceful east African nation. The election features seven presidential candidates, including President Jakaya Kikwete of the ruling party CCM, or Chama Cha Mapinduzi. Kikwete won by a landslide 80 percent in 2005, but is facing some of the [...]
THE Kano office of DAAR Communications Plc, owner of AIT/Raypower, was, on Friday, gutted by fire, with equipment worth millions of naira destroyed. The conflagration, which lasted for over three hours, however, claimed no life and nobody was injured while it lasted. Head of AIT in Kano, Alhaji Abdullahi Addy, who described the incident as [...]
This is to inform the general public that, Umudike has released the first batch of admission into her undergraduate programmes for the 2010/2011 academic session. First Choice and Direct Entry candidates are advised to check their Admission Status on the University’s website www.mouau.edu.ng as from Monday, October 11, 2010 using their UTME/DE registration number.
1. Diego Armando Maradona was born on October 30, 1960 on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. 2. Maradona made 91 appearances for Argentina, scoring 34 goals. 3. He played in four World Cup tournaments for his country. 4. He helped Boca Juniors to the league championship in 1982 before making a move to Barcelona. But [...]
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said that former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme rejected the position of Senate President after losing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primaries in 1999. Obasanjo made the revelation in Lagos at the launch of his new book entitled: Baba’s Story: Nigeria is 50. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported [...]
THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) board has short listed former coach of Togo, Stephen Keshi and former U-23 coach, Samson Siasia for the post of the Super Eagles chief coach. Rising from its board meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, the NFF has also put in place four Committees in place which include: the Referees Appointment [...]
The 39-year old Deputy Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Saliu Adeoti, is dead. Mr. Adeoti died at about 8.30am yesterday at the University Teaching Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo State, after a protracted illness. The deceased, according to the Ekiti State government, would be buried today, October 28, 2010, in his country home, [...]
All 50,000 workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are to be laid off next year in the last phase of the privatisation of the power sector. They will, however, not go home without their entitlements, as $900 million (N135 billion) is earmarked for their severance package. Besides, in the thinking of Abuja, [...]
Nigeria’s parliament voted in favour of a constitutional amendment which will allow nationwide polls to be held in April, bringing the country a step closer to finalising its election timetable. Presidential, parliamentary and state governorship elections in Africa’s most populous nation had been scheduled for January, but the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) requested more [...]
The Pre-degree Entrance examination is that which qualifies you for the pre-degree program for entry into 2011/2012 Academic Session. The examination is expected to run from 9th of November to the 11th of November, 2010.
The Nigerian Navy yesterday appointed 66 of its senior officers to man various commands, ships and establishments. The appointments affected eight rear admirals, 38 commodores and 18 captains. The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) had earlier released the postings and appointments of its 75 top senior officers. They include 12 air vice marshals (army’s equivalent of [...]
Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti has ordered a mass redeployment of civil servants in the state civil service barely 13 days after coming into office. An investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ado-Ekiti on Wednesday showed that the redeployment started on Monday. The exercise, NAN learnt, also affected the aides of Mr [...]
The famous Octopus which succesfullly predicted Germany’s 2010 World Cup matches in World Cup South Africa 2010 has died. Reports say the octopus died yesterday in its aquarium having lived for two years. Workers at the aquarium expressed their sadness and shock at his demise. The octopus was known worldwide for his near accurate predictions [...]
A large shipment of weapons has been seized by Nigeria’s State Security Service at the port in Lagos city. The secret police say they intercepted 13 containers some of which had rocket launchers and grenades and other explosives hidden in the floorboards. An SSS spokeswoman told the BBC she could not say who owned the [...]
Media mogul Ted Turner has announced that he will give $80 million to the United Nations to fight childhood polio and measles in the West African nation. Speaking in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, on Monday night, Turner said his contribution will “finish the job on polio” in the nation of 150 million people. Roughly $60 million [...]
BARRING any last minute change, all elections are now to be held in April next year. Both the National Assembly and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) reportedly agreed to the new arraignment in Abuja on Monday when chairman, INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, led other INEC national commissioners to appear before a public hearing organised [...]
Senior politicians and businessmen are among more than 100 people listed by Nigerian anti-fraud police as being unsuitable to run for political office. The EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) said those on the list were all being prosecuted for corruption. The commission urged political parties not to endorse them as candidates in next year’s [...]
1. A voilin like hairstyle first seen at a hairshow in Budapest. 2. A tattoo combined with hair 3. Blue and red checker board hair 4. Pink and Black Swirl hairstyle 5. Boom Hairshot 6. Static Cool hair 7. 50/50 hair style
After spending 21 days in Omo Forest Reserve in Area J4, Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, in search of the Golden Goblet, Twenty Three year old Oluwaremi Oyekunle has emerged winner of the 2010 edition of Gulder Ultimate Search. The University of Ibadan, Agriculture and Forestry as well as other contestants were [...]
On Monday, the National Association of Nigerian Footballers (NANF) decided to withdraw its suit gainst the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) at a Federal High Court a over the FA’s disputed August 26 poll. Counsel to the NANF, Belo Aideloje, told the court, presided over by Justice Okon Abang, that his client will want to discontinue [...]
Rooney, who is understood to be in turmoil over whether to accept a new offer to remain at Old Trafford, sparked fury among Manchester United supporters by claiming that he is ready to leave the club due to the failure of senior figures to prove they match his ambition. Derogatory banners and chants were directed [...]
The State Security Service(SSS) yesterday arraigned the five suspects alleged to have planted the twin car bombs that exploded near Eagle Square, Abuja, during the October 1 independence celebration. The suspects were arraigned in a closed session at the Magistrate Court in Abuja. The security agency sealed off the court premises and refused to make [...]
France’s main unions called for two more days of protests against a government pension reform bill that is due for a final vote in the Senate this week. Protests would take place on Oct. 28 and Nov. 6, they said. source: Reuters
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Nigerian soldiers have deployed to a city in the north where a radical Islamic sect operates. An Associated Press reporter says that soldiers began taking over all the strategic locations in Maiduguri late Tuesday. The move comes after suspected militants with the group set a police station ablaze earlier this week. The [...]
