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The European football season of 2012/2013 has come to an end with all its excitement, intrigues and fun but the season cannot be complete without certain characters that added to its excitement off and on the pitch. Here’s a list of individuals who got us talking throughout the season. 1. ...

Benue State Ministry of Finance has, on Thursday, refused to pay the N25,000 which the state government normally pays outgoing corps members who served in organisations owned/run by the state. The 2012 batch ‘B’ corps members who passed out on Thursday were shocked, on getting to the finance office, to ...

Ivan Gazidis has revealed that Arsenal now have the financial muscle to complete a move for a player like Wayne Rooney. The Gunners chief executive, shot down speculations that scoffed at the possibility of manager Arsene Wenger making a big bid for the want-away Manchester United striker, hinting that they ...

Conjoined male twin delivered at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital five days ago through caesarean section. Pictured on the rescucitaire and radiant warmer as the doctors are working round the clock to keep them alive. Their abdomen and thorax are fused. 2D Echo showed that they have separate heart. Abdominal ...

Speed kills, the accident on Eric Moore road in Surulere, between a Taxi and A Toyota Avalon. It was reported that the avalon sped past the taxi, hit him and the taxi lost control while the Avalon hit a culvet and tumbled facing the other direction. No serious casualties, as ...

A 24 years old Nigerian, Uwa Osamede Imafidon, just graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) in the US with Masters degree in Microbiology and made a 4.0 CGPA out of the maximum 4.0 CGPA. She bagged a First Class Degree in Crop Science from University of Benin, ...

  In a bid to check the continued despoliation of the environment, the Federal Government yesterday said plans are underway to ban the use of plastic bags in the country. Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadza Mailafia, who dropped the hint during the 2013 World Environment Day celebration in Abuja, said ...

In the first version of multi-platform BBM, iOS and Android users are expected to be able to experience the following BBM features: * The immediacy of BBM chats * Multi-person chats * Voice note sharing * BlackBerry Groups, where BBM users are able to set up groups of up to ...

  Mr Efiok Cobham, the Cross River State deputy governor startled his household recently when he commanded his wife, Glory to kneel down and apologize to his protocol officer, Asikpo Okon for allegedly claiming that the protocol officer was in the habit of arranging girls for his boss. A reliable ...

A Saudi prince is suing Forbes magazine for libel because it said he was only worth $20billion in its annual rich list instead of $30billion. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world’s richest businessmen, claims the magazine underestimated his wealth by $9.6billion when it placed him at 26th in ...

US sprinter Justin Gatlin beat six-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt in the men’s 100 metres race at the Rome Golden Gala, Diamond League, which took place today. Justin beat Usain by one-hundredth of a second, that’s like 1% of a second. Justin actually had to dip his head over the ...

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A judge at Lagos High Court in Ikeja, on Monday sentenced a middle aged man, Olaolu Salau, to 168 years imprisonment with hard labour being seven years for each count for a 24 count charge. Salau was imprisoned for defrauding a Lagos based businessman, Solomon Ayoola, of the sum of ...

  An 84-year-old Florida woman has won the largest unshared jackpot in US lottery history � a prize of $590m (�383m). Mother of four Gloria MacKenzie, who retired to Florida from Maine, bought the ticket in Zephyrhills on 18 May. She opted to take a single lump sum of about ...

Five undergraduates and four other Nigerians were on Monday, June 3, 2013 arrested by Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over internet-related fraud. The undergraduates, who are undergoing different courses in different institutions of higher learning, were rounded up in Ibadan, Oyo State in a sting operation. ...

A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that’s been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s. The Providence, Rhode Island-based American Mathematical Society (AMS) on Tuesday said $1 million will be awarded for the publication of a solution to the Beal Conjecture number ...

  The US government has seized a Rockville home belonging to former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release last week Friday May 31. Feds said they seized the home because the former governor bought the house using stolen state money. Alamieyeseigha was ...

Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) picked Super Eagles duo of John Mikel Obi and Nnamdi Oduamadi for doping test after Wednesday’s 1-0 victory over Kenya’s Harambee Stars at the Kasarani Stadium, reports Completesportsnigeria.com. The duo were instrumental to the team’s victory over the boastful Harambee Stars who played behind ...

  The childhood memoir of Nobel laureate, Professor�Wole Soyinka’s, is to be adapted into a film. The production of the memoir which is titled ‘Ake, The Years of Childhood’�is being put together by a Lagos-based film production outfit,�Back Page Production. Dapo Adeniyi, the executive producer of the project, says�‘work will ...

  The Super Eagles of Nigeria this afternoon beat the�Harambee Stars of Kenya �1 � 0 in Nairobi in a crucial 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying match. The goal only goal of the match was scored by Ahmed Musa�at the 90th minutes.