Burnley kept the pressure on Championship leaders Leicester thanks to a 2-1 win at Yeovil, while QPR remain in the hunt for automatic promotion to the Premier League after a 3-1 victory over Ipswich on Saturday. Leicester had opened up a seven-point…
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Republic of Ireland international winger Aiden McGeady has joined Everton from Spartak Moscow, the Premier League club announced on Saturday. The 27-year-old former Celtic player arrives for an undisclosed fee and has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract…
Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres scored two excellent goals as Chelsea won 2-0 at Hull City on Saturday to climb to the top of the Premier League table. Hazard, who turned 23 on Tuesday, broke the deadlock early in the second period at the KC Stadium…
Adam Johnson scored a hat-trick as Sunderland won 4-1 against Fulham at Craven Cottage in a key game at the bottom of the Premier League table on Saturday. Johnson opened the scoring with a sweetly-struck free-kick just before the half-hour mark and…
Fighting between rival tribes in southern Libya killed 19 people Saturday and wounded another 20, a local official said. “Violent confrontations broke out between Toubous and Awled Sleiman early this morning,” Ayoub al-Zarrouk, chief of the local council…
India on Saturday said a bitter row over the US arrest and strip-search of an Indian consulate official had triggered a “mini-crisis” in bilateral relations and much more must be done to repair ties. Indian foreign minister Salman Khurshid’s remarks…
Noriaki Kasai, at 41 years and seven months, became the oldest ever winner of a World Cup ski jump at Tauplitz in Austria on Saturday. Kasai, fifth in last week’s Four Hills tournament, entered ski jumping’s record books by taking the ski flying leg…
2013 must go down history as one of Comedian AY’s most successful years: it’s the Year he shot his first-own movie (30 Days in Atlanta). It’s the Year he won two Awards at NaijaFM Comedy Awards (Comedy Event of the Year, and Comedy TV Show of the Year, and of course the Year YouTUBE officially rated his Channel at www.youtube.com/AYTVAYTV as the most watched YouTUBE Channel in Nigeria. At a media Parley, recently, AY gave reasons he factors must have ensured his Channel ranked Nigeria’s Number one on YouTUBE. “First,” he enlightens, “we didn’t go out to be the Number…
GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan has warned Civil Servants to desist from collecting money from individuals seeking employment into the Delta State Civil Service. The Governor who was responding to the information that applicants for advertised jobs for the Delta State Civil Service were paying money to apply online, directed the Head of Service to stop such collection of fees and that those who have paid the sum of N1,000 for the forms should have their money back. Fielding questions from Journalists in Asaba, Delta State, the Governor said it was wrong for applicants for jobs to be made to pay any…
The Delta State Governor Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has said that he is not only a foundation member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but a life member of the party. Governor Uduaghan who stated this at an interactive session with journalists in Asaba debunked the rumours that he would soon decamp to another political party to achieve his senatorial ambition, stating that nothing would make him leave PDP come what may. He explained that Delta State is a PDP state where almost all its elected officials are members of the party and the few ones remaining in other political parties…
As CES 2014 draws to a close, there seems to be a growing feeling among tech sites that Windows is in some trouble. The most direct discussion of Windows’ impending demise can be found over on the Verge, with the smartly titled “Closing Windows”…
This is a shocking news from the desk of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria and Grand Patron of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Olusegun Obasanjo wrote a withdrawal letter from PDP activities to the party National Chairman on 7th January, 2014. His withdrawal was motivated by the installation of Buriji Kashamu as the party leader in the South-West geopolitical zone because the latter is a wanted criminal by the US government. Read the letter below for more information:
Lagos, NIGERIA: It was a Boxing Day Tour organised by Project27 Africa – an NGO for kids in rural Africa. Uncle Speed, President of the Project, took 27 Kids for AUD Primary School, Ibowon-Epe, Lagos, Nigeria on a FREE Tour to see the Largest and first-of-its-kind Offshore Vessel in Nigeria – The Adessa Ocean King. Before getting to the King’s ‘Palace’, Uncle Speed and the Kids made fun stop-overs at the Pedestrian Bridge just before the Admiralty Toll Plaza in Lekki just so the Kids could have ‘first-leg’ walk on the Bridge. “Then,” Uncle Speed continues the story, “We took…
European Union nations agreed in principle Friday on a plan to launch a joint military operation in Central Africa to help restore security there amid fears of civilian massacres. Ambassadors from the 28 member states gave preliminary approval to plans…
Tech giant Samsung has finally offered a full response to claims from about two and a half weeks ago that its Knox security software for its Android devices has a security flaw. In short, Samsung claims that the flaw isn’t the result of faults in…
A Norwegian national accused of killing his cellmate in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo, went on trial on Friday in Kinshasa, his lawyer said. Joshua French, who also holds British citizenship, is accused of murdering his friend and fellow…
Canada said Friday new rail cars used to transport fuel would be reinforced in order to avoid a repeat of the devastating explosion in Quebec last year that left 47 people dead. Large swathes of the picturesque town of Lac-Megantic were reduced to rubble…
When discussing Nintendo’s 2013, it’s tough not to mention the Wii U’s miserable sales. That doesn’t mean the company completely struck out, however. The iconic gaming company had trouble moving its home console, but its 3DS handheld was flying…
It may be your best friend, but your smartphone is also probably teeming with germs. As innovators descended on the Consumer Electronics Show, companies offering better sanitizing were also promoting the cause of cleanliness. The technology show has…
The security situation with Target, which has been ongoing since late November of last year, is getting worse. According to another announcement made by the retailer itself, the personal information of over 70 million shoppers (previously 40 million…