Singapore billionaire Peter Lim, the new owner of Valencia, has realised a long-held dream by buying a top European football club — and will hope for better fortunes than some of his fellow Asian investors. Publicity-shy Lim, a fishmonger’s son who…
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Nigerian Navy (NN) personnel drawn from Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Benin and NNS Ikot-Abasi, have rescued a distressed oil tanker,…
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, yesterday lamented over the apathetic attitude of Nigerians towards…
Fragile Security Forces Jonathan to Abort Visit to Chibok Indications have emerged that President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled his allegedly planned…
The 2014 FA Cup final headed into extra-time after Premier League rivals Arsenal and Hull City finished all square at 2-2 after 90 minutes at Wembley on Saturday. Underdogs Hull, in the first FA Cup final in the club’s 110-year history, put themselves…
Murat Yokus may have escaped Turkey’s deadliest mine explosion, but he is unable to erase the memories of his friends falling one by one to the ground, suffocated by thick fumes that engulfed the tunnels where they were trapped. “I had step on the bodies…
All the National Conference Standing Committees are expected to conclude the submission of their reports on Sunday ahead of resumed…
Niger State Governor, Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has passed a vote of Confidence on the Secretary to the State Government…
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger kept faith with second-choice goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski for Saturday’s FA Cup final against Premier League rivals Hull City at Wembley Stadium. Fabianski, 29, usually provides back-up to Wojciech Szczesny, but he has…
The English Premier League chief at the centre of a sexism row came under fresh pressure to quit his post on Saturday. Last week Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper published leaked private e-mails sent by Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore…
Mexican film star Salma Hayek and French actress Julie Gayet branded signs saying #BringBackOurGirls on Cannes’ red carpet Saturday, joining global calls to free 223 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria. Hayek and Gayet posed with…
Veteran Nollywood actress and movie-maker has relived the moment in pictures, when she got married to her cute looking hubby.…
The apex northern socio-political organization, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Thursday berated the Federal Government over its handling of the Boko…
The President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor has called on the Federal Government to “impose full…
WASHINGTON, May 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Fact SheetOffice of the SpokespersonWashington, DCMay 14, 2014“The kidnapping of hundreds of…
A suspect wanted over a deadly attack last month in Nigeria dropped out of university in Britain, it emerged on…
Arsenal have a gilt-edged opportunity to end their increasingly burdensome nine-year trophy drought on Saturday when the underachieving English giants meet Hull City in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Not since 2005, and an FA Cup final success on penalties…
Brazilian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a protest near the airport in Sao Paulo, the city hosting the football World Cup opener in less than a month. Scores of protesters torched at least two vehicles and launched fireworks at…
A Lao military plane carrying top officials including the defence minister crashed on Saturday in the north of the communist country, a Thai official said, without giving details of any casualties. About 20 people were on board including Defence Minister…
A single daily pill may help prevent HIV. And in America, gay men who have lost countless loved ones to AIDS can’t stop fighting about it. Much of the debate has played out on the Internet and social media as tempers flare over promiscuity, erratic…