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  • Ferguson wins managers’ award

    LONDON – Outgoing Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson heads into retirement with the Premier League manager of the year award. Ferguson picked up the League Manager Association’s honour on Monday. At the reception the 71-year-old said he was relieved celebrations to mark his retirement were over. ';It has been overwhelming,'; he told the awards dinner in London 24 ...

  • Shares you should buy

    By Babajide Komolafe There are many people out there who want to buy shares as investment but they are confused on what to buy. Though stockbrokers are supposed to advise people in this regard, many have however lost confidence in stockbrokers. From this week, we would be providing information that could help investors overcome some of these confusions. Last week's edition highlighted the ...

  • Jonathan Plots NGF Election in Villa

    President Goodluck Jonathan has perfected plans to coerce members of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) into conducting their election in the Aso Rock presidential villa, sources disclosed. It was also gathered last night that the president has allegedly dumped the rumoured choice of Katsina State governor, Ibrahim Shema, as a replacement for the erstwhile chairman of the forum and ...

  • Rainstorm Destroys Over 70 Houses in Katsina Adamawa

    Rainstorm has destroyed over 50 buildings in Tandama village in Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State and Adamawa while another rainstorm destroyed over 20 buildings in and around the Adamawa State Polytechnic. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the affected houses in Katsina include residential houses and public buildings like the court and schools. Alhaji Tijjani Lawal, the ...

  • Africa Visit - Again Obama Skips Nigeria

    United States president Barack Obama will not be visiting Nigeria as recently speculated in the media. Obama and his wife Michelle will only visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3. A statement by the Office of the Press Secretary in the White House stated this yesterday while clarifying Obama's visit to Africa. A copy of the statement entitled "Statement ...

Movie Review

The Man in the Iron Mask

"The Man in the Iron Mask," based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, is a well-made adventure film that doesn't have much adventure. It has a lot of beautiful French locations, a stunning A-list cast of actors, and technical merit oozing from every corner, but it never really grabs hold of you the way a good swashbuckling adventure should. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the ... ...

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  • 21-Yr-Old Mother of Five Causes Stir Over Hunger

    Lagos - THERE was a mild drama at the premises of an Ikeja Magistrate Court, Monday, when a 21- year-old woman, Esther Odozi, a farmer, rolled on the ground and screamed that she and her children were at the verge of dying from hunger. Odozi, who said she lives in Owanta village in Ika North-East Local Government Area of Delta State, came to Lagos last week and because she didn't have ...

  • Nigeria Investment in Sovereign Wealth Fund Starts June With U.S.$200 Million

    Barely seven months after the inauguration of the board of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the organisation has said it would commence investment of the $1 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund with initial $200 million from next month. The managing director the NSIA, Dr Uche Orji, stated yesterday in Abuja that the NSIA is now fully operational and that the board has already met ...

  • Nigeria’s growth rate fails to ease poverty

    Nigeria’s poverty rate should be falling faster given its economic growth this decade, a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said ...

  • State of Emergency Northern Senators in marathon meeting

    By Henry Umoru ABUJA- AHEAD of debates on the declaration of State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states by President Goodluck Jonathan today, senators from the north under the aegis, Northern Senators Forum were yesterday locked in a marathon meeting. Vanguard gathered that the meeting which started at 8.55pm yesterday took place at hearing room1,white House, Senate wing and ended at ...

  • Amodu cautions Eagles on WC qualifiers

    Newly appointed Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF Amodu Shaibu has warned the Super Eagles not to put all their strings to win the FIFA Confederations Cup and lose focus on the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers which is more important. Amodu who was at the glasshouse headquarters of the NFF with the duo of his assistants Kashimawo Laloko and James Peter on Monday told ...

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