World Leaders Pay Tribute To Nelson Mandela

 

World leaders have started paying their last respects to one the world’s most revered leaders who passed away in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela whose life preached peace, unity and freedom became a prominent international figure, first as a leading human rights campaigner in South Africa and then as the world’s best-known political prisoner.

Tuface & Annie Idibia Publicly Flaunt Their Love For Each Other (See Photos)

 A few hours ago, Tuface Idibia, apparently missing his wife Annie who is in the US to give birth took to his twitter handle to say he was missing his girls.

He then shared the photo below with the caption, “Some pple were jealousing my burger sha @AnnieMacaulay1, Love eh! Who would have thought…”

Mercy Johnson Goes African Style With Baby Purity

 

Nollywood actress, Mercy Johnson might still be nursing her daughter, but that hasn’t stopped the actress from going hard on set.

PHOTOS: ONCE AGAIN, Kim Kardashians Exposes chest As She Steps Out With Kanye West

 Kim Kardashian showed us once again why she is often described as a hot momma.

The reality star who had her first child a few months ago was spotted with fiancee Kanye West as they attended DuJour Magazine’s event to honor artist Marc Quinn at Delano Beach Club in Miami Beach, Florida.

Joy for Mo after beating Sunderland

Football | Barclays Premier League

Jose Mourinho looked as if he did not know whether to laugh or cry after watching his Eden Hazard-inspired Chelsea side hang on for a 4-3 Premier League victory at bottom of the table Sunderland.
Belgium winger Hazard was in irrepressible mood on Wednesday, scoring twice and laying on another goal for Frank Lampard, but every time the Londoners seemed like taking a grip of proceedings they allowed Sunderland back into the game.

LMC shares rewards

Football | Nigeria

The League Management Company (LMC) has said the 20 clubs that participated in the 2012/13 Glo Premier League season have been credited with their earnings from the merit award scheme instituted by the league body.

Gyan makes Caf top 10

Football | Africa

Asamoah Gyan © Backpagepics

Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has been shortlisted by CAF for the 2013 African Player of the Year and the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa) awards.
The Al Ain striker is one of 10 players who have been shortlisted following voting from members of the Technical & Development and the Media Committees from the initial list of nominees.
Ten (10) players made the cut for the flagship African Player of the Year category, and five (5) for the African Player of the Year (Based in Africa).

Eaglet's trio makes Chan squad

Football | Super Eagles

Three players from the 2013 Nigerian Under-17 team, Kelechi Iheanacho, Dele Alampasu and Taiwo Awoniyi have been called up into the Super Eagles squad for the 2014 African Nations Championship in South Africa.

Mba wants big guns for Eagles

Football | Super Eagles

 

 

Super Eagles midfielder, Sunday Mba will be watching Friday’s 2014 Fifa World Cup draws with interest and will not be disappointed if the African champions are eventually handed a tough draw. The 25-year-old reckons that the competition will give players of the Super Eagles a chance to “really know the level reached” and that only a meeting with the world’s finest will see that achieved.






“Some people have been praying that we avoid certain countries but the truth is we really should be prepared to meet teams like Brazil, Spain and Germany so that we can really know the level we have reached. I will personally want us to meet teams like that” the midfielder exclusively told supersport.com.

Sex streaming saga: Iwuji now on the spot

 

Uche Iwuji

Another celebrity finds herself entangled in a fresh sex-related scandal, Jayne Augoye writes

 A few weeks ago, fast rising singer, Chidinma Ekile, was in the news after a sex tape allegedly belonging to her went viral on the Internet. The young woman denied having anything to do with the video.

Strike: ACF begs FG, ASUU to hasten negotiation

Prof. Festus Iyayi

THE Pan Northern socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum, has advised the Federal Government to reconsider the ultimatum issued to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call of its five-month-old strike.

keshi names Iheanacho, Alampasu for CHAN

 

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi

Super Eagles coach Stephen Keshi has handed three Golden Eaglets players – Kelechi Iheanacho, Taiwo Awoniyi and goalkeeper Sunday Alampasu – their first chance to play in the senior team by including them in the squad for the African Nations Championship holding in South Africa next year.

Nigeria, playing in the tournament for the first time after missing out on the first two editions, will face hosts South Africa, Mozambique and Mali in Group A of the tournament.

Omotola, Genevieve, missing from Charles Novia’s best actress list

Omotola, Genevieve

Controversial movie producer and actor, Charles Novia, is in the news again. This time, the filmmaker, known for his no-holds-barred statements, has penned his list of five Nollywood actresses of 2013.

Pre-election year inflation worries foreign investors —Report

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi

Indications have emerged that foreign and local investors are worried whether the country can sustain the value of its currency as it approaches the pre-election year, 2014.

Economists say the year preceding general elections in any country is usually challenging as it is characterised by inflation due to the activities of politicians, who flood the economy with money.

Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, is preparing to leave his post in June 2014, raising concern among investors that his success in curbing inflation and stabilising the currency may unravel in a pre-election year, according to Reuters.

Mandela dies at 95

 

Nelson Mandela

Former South African President Nelson Mandela died on Thursday at the age of 95.

Mandela, the first black and post apartheid President of South Africa, died in his home in Johannesburg, according to South African President Jacob Zuma, who announced the late anti-apartheid hero’s death.

Bye Bye Madiba

 

Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died. He was 95.
“He is now resting. He is now at peace,” South African President Jacob Zuma, announced late on Thursday.

Mandela’s life in brief

 

Nelson Mandela

Born in 1918, Nelson Mandela joined the African National Congress  in 1943, as a law student.

He and other ANC leaders campaigned against apartheid (white-only rule).

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, but was released in 1990 after 27 years in jail on Robin Island as South Africa began to move away from strict racial segregation.

How Africa’s wealthiest get rich

 

“Don’t come to Africa and help, come and make money,” said Mo Ibrahim, Africa’s pioneer telecom billionaire. As its economic promise continues to take shape, so Africa is churning out millionaire businessmen after multi-million dollar business. But just how are these super-successful tycoons amassing their riches?

Over the last decade or so, we have witnessed the blossoming of the knowledge economy. The software and technology sectors have taken off, birthing a new breed of billionaires – Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg – and cementing their viability. While this has made many exceptionally prosperous, it has not been a major source of income for Africa’s wealthiest.

When talking about financial fortunes on the continent, one needs only look at the usual suspects: oil and gas, investments, manufacturing, construction, financial services, real estate and other traditional terms of commerce.

ASUU holds solidarity march for Iyayi

 

The funeral ceremony for the late Prof. Festus Iyayi began on Wednesday in Benin, Edo State capital, with  a solidarity march by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and civil society groups.

Members of ASUU in their hundreds  from other universities including the University of Ilorin, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Delta State University, Abraka  joined their colleagues in the University of Benin to pay their last respect to the late Iyayi.

Re: Will the Igbo ever rule Nigeria?

Bayo Olupohunda’s article on page 24 of The Punch of Thursday, November 28, 2013, titled, “Will the Igbo ever rule Nigeria?”, made an interesting reading to me as it might have made to many of the target readers of his illuminating column. Much as I agree with the writer that the access of the Igbo to the Presidency of Nigeria is proving elusive in the extreme, due to the grounds enunciated in the write-up under reference, I do not agree however that an ethnic group has to produce the President of the country before the so-called dividends of democracy, which I believe is the idea behind the scheming for political power domination at the centre, can be enjoyed by the ethnic people.

Power investors must pay N10bn debts today —NERC

 

Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo

One month after private firms took over Nigeria’s power sector, the companies are already defaulting in terms of making remittance to the Federal Government.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, which gave this indication on Wednesday, threatened to sanction the errant firms if they failed to pay up their debts before 4pm on Thursday (today).

The Chairman, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, said the remittances were monies meant for services rendered to the companies by the government and directed the power firms to make the payment to the electricity Market Operator.

UK visa applicants to pay in US dollars

 

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock

The British High Commission in Nigeria on Wednesday announced a new visa regime application whereby applicants for United Kingdom visa would be paying online in U.S. dollars.

In a statement signed by its Press and Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Rob Fitzpatrick, the commission said that the new system would begin on December 16.

Vandals arrested with stolen petrol in garri sacks

 

A fake soldier, identified as Emeka Kennedy, and four others, have been arrested for trading in petroleum products allegedly procured from vandalised Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation pipelines at Ijedodo, around Ijegun, Lagos State.

The suspects, Udoji Rawlins, Kassem Jimoh, Rahim Wahab and Olufokpe Fatai, were arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps on Friday around the Igando area in Alimosho LGA of Lagos State.

Lille coach hails Enyeama

 

Vincent Enyeama

Lille coach Rene Girard heaped praise on Vincent Enyeama after the Nigeria goalkeeper kept an 11th straight clean sheet in Tuesday night’s 1-0 Ligue 1 victory over Marseille.

The 31-year-old has conceded only four goals in 16 top-flight games this term and has not been beaten for 1,035 minutes, meaning he is closing in on all the all-time record in France – 1,176 minutes,  set by former Bordeaux goalkeeper Gaetan Huard in 1992/93, Sky  Sports reports.

UK visa applicants to pay in US dollars

 

The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Dr. Andrew Pocock

The British High Commission in Nigeria on Wednesday announced a new visa regime application whereby applicants for United Kingdom visa would be paying online in U.S. dollars.

In a statement signed by its Press and Public Affairs Officer, Mr. Rob Fitzpatrick, the commission said that the new system would begin on December 16.

Falconets to pound Tunisia

Football | Nigeria

Falconets coach, Peter Dedevbo has said his side will not show mercy to Tunisia in the second round first fixture of the 2014 Fifa Under-20 Women's qualifying match billed for the Fifa Goal Project pitch, Abuja on Saturday, December 14.

Juve set to inflict more pain on Bologna

Football | Italy

Champions Juventus will be looking for an easy three points when they visit a struggling Bologna side on Friday, a day ahead of Roma's trip to Fiorentina.
Juventus pulled clear of the Serie A pack for the first time this season last week when a 1-0 win over Udinese, coupled with Roma's fourth consecutive draw, gave Antonio Conte's men a three-point cushion over the Giallorossi.

Suarez dazzles; Arsenal, Chelsea win

Football | Barclays Premier League

 Liverpool's Luis Suarez showed his devastating ability to act as a one-man wrecking ball with four goals in a 5-1 demolition of Norwich City as Arsenal's forgotten man Nicklas Bendtner jogged a few memories in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Suarez delivered a dazzling collection of goal-of-the-season contenders at Anfield and Bendtner scored two minutes into his first start in more than two years to help the Premier League leaders beat Hull City 2-0.
Second-placed Chelsea and Manchester City in third came through tight tussles to beat Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion, but champions Manchester United lost 1-0 at home to Everton to slip 12 points behind the leaders.