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  • Nigeria arrives late for Confederations Cup

    The Nigerian soccer team arrived in Brazil, three days behind schedule and a day before it opens its Confederations Cup football campaign against Tahiti. The team landed in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte early Sunday morning, putting an end to speculations that Nigeria might miss the eight-team tournament due to unspecified "internal problems", reports Xinhua. Africa's current top team ...

  • Tahiti make history despite defeat to Nigeria in Confed Cup

    Nigeria beat Tahiti 6-1 in Group B opener at Confederations Cup Nnamdi Oduamadi scores a hat-rick in Belo Horizonte 138th-ranked Tahiti reply through Jonathan Tehau South Pacific minnows next play world champions Spain in ...

  • Nigeria 6 Tahiti 1 - Confederations Cup match report

    Nigeria smashed in six goals against minnows Tahiti but suffered the embarassment of conceding to the team that were odds on not to score at the Confederations ...

  • If Mandela were a Nigerian

    IDEMUDIA Michael, Jemila Junction, Benin City, Edo State, +23480332656: The Nigerian government should learn from its South African counterpart on how it has handled the health of Nelson Mandela. The former South African leader has been suffering from lung infection for some time now leading to his being moved from one hospital to another. His health is currently stable due to the timely ...

  • Tahiti trump Nigeria in celebration stakes

    Tahiti has treated Monday's 6-1 Confederations Cup loss to Nigeria in Belo Horizonte like a victory in the World Cup final.The French Polynesian island, who stunned New Caledonia to win the 2012 Oceania Nations and qualify for the Confederations Cup, managed to score a goal in their first appearance at a major tournament.Tahiti head coach Eddy Etaeta had described a goal as the team's ...

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  • Court refers brain-damaged girl’s case to Lagos ADR

    A Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Monday referred a case instituted on behalf of two-year-old Nicole Adesanya, whose brain was allegedly damaged during birth, to the state judiciary's Alternative Dispute Resolution ...

  • Nigeria put six past Tahiti

    June 17 2013, 23:17 BST Tahiti's first taste of a major tournament was as chastening as had been predicted as Nigeria wracked up six goals with early and late ...

  • NNPC to tackle environmental degradation

    By KUNLE KALEJAYE Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has tasked its staff to imbibe the consciousness and spirit of preservation and friendliness toward the environment as part of measure to prevent the environment from total degradation. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos, Manager, NNPC Lagos Zonal office, Mr. James Adebola said the corporation on a yearly basis observes the World ...

  • Al-Jazeera crew detained in Niger is released

    DAKAR, Senegal -; A team of Al-Jazeera journalists was released late Monday after being detained for three days in eastern Niger, where they were held in a prison cell, according to a statement from the Qatar-owned ...

  • Tahiti score but get trounced 6-1 by Nigeria

    Nigeria pounced on some early mistakes on the way to a 6-1 Confederations Cup win over amateurs Tahiti, who claimed a moral victory by scoring on their debut in a major international tournament on MondayOceania champions Tahiti, with only one professional player in their squad, suffered a terrible start in Group B when the ball hit the referee and ran to Nigeria's Uwa Echiejile who scored ...

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