Ahead of the international friendly against the Lone Stars of Liberia, the Abuja camp of the senior national team, the Super Eagles, came alive on Monday with the arrival of 21 of the invited players. According to the team coordinator, Emmanuel Atta, nine others are expected to arrive later for full training to commence on Tuesday. Those already in camp as a press time include Chigozie Agbim, who currently skippers the team, and his other two colleagues between the post, Okemute Odah and Dan Akpeyi.
Author: Dotun Oladipo
Hardship in the camp of the Nigeria Premier League side, Niger Tornadoes, will soon be a thing of the past. The Eagle Online gathered on Monday that the Niger State Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, has promised to approve and release substantial funds to the management of the club. Aside from outstanding balance of last season sign on fees to the players and coaches, the management of the club, led by Suleiman David, is yet to secure funds, weeks after the commencement of the ongoing season.
AC Milan’s Swedish international striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, will miss the top-of-the-table clash with Serie A leaders, Juventus, after he was suspended for three matches. The volatile Swede – who has scored 15 times this season and lies second in the Serie A scorers list – received the ban for slapping Napoli player Salvatore Aronica in the face during Sunday’s 0-0 draw for which he was red carded. AC Milan – who are second a point behind Juve but having played a game more – said they will appeal the ruling by the Italian League’s Disciplinary Commission. …
Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian National Council opposition group said. The bombardment came a day after the United States promised harsher sanctions against Damascus in response to Russian and Chinese vetoes of a draft U.N. resolution that would have backed an Arab plan urging Assad to step aside. “The tally that we have received from various activists in Homs since the shelling started at six this morning is 50,…
A former Federal Minister and a former High Commissioner of Nigeria to the United Kingdom, Chief Matthew Tawo Mbu, is dead. Mbu was aged 82. He died in a London Hospital. The family in a statement on Monday said: “It is with the deepest regret, but also with total submission to God’s will, that the family of Ambassador (Dr.) M. T. Mbu regret to announce the passing of their patriarch in London at the age of 82.” Born on November 20, 1929 in Okundi, Cross River State, Mbu attended Okundi Primary School from 1937 to…
Trading jokes and swapping leads, investigators from the FBI and Scotland Yard spent the conference call strategizing about how to bring down the hacking collective known as Anonymous, responsible for a string of embarrassing attacks across the Internet. Unfortunately for the cyber sleuths, the hackers were in on the call too – and now so is the rest of the world. Anonymous published the roughly 15-minute-long recording of the call on the Internet on Friday, gloating in a Twitter message that “the FBI might be curious how we’re able to continuously read their internal comms for some…
Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday, although they added that the situation in Brazil’s third most populous city appears to be improving. Salvador’s A Tarde daily reported that 78 people have been murdered in and around Bahia state’s capital city since Wednesday, when about a third of state police officers walked off the job, demanding pay raises and bonuses. Five people were killed early Sunday, including a 13-year-old girl, the report said. The government news service Agencia Brasil has said…
CNN reports that the United States has closed its embassy in Syria and withdrawn its staff. ABC News confirms that US embassy officials have left the country amid increasing violence. “We have serious concerns about the deteriorating security situation in Damascus,” the State Department said in a written statement last month, according to Reuters. US Ambassador Robert Ford left Syria in October following threats to his safety, however he returned to the country in December. According to CNN, 17 embassy officials, including Ambassador Ford, left the country Monday morning. Most reportedly traveled by convoy…
President Barack Obama said on Sunday that he deserves another four years in the White House, even though the economy has been shaky throughout his time in office. “I deserve a second term, but we’re not done,” Obama said during a pre-Super Bowl interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, who noted that Obama had told him in a 2009 interview that if the economy was still recovering in 2012, he would be a one-term president. “When you and I sat down [then], we were losing 750,000 jobs a month,” Obama said. “Now we’re creating 250,000. We’ve created 3.7…
Former Students Leaders Forum (FSLF), Edo State chapter, has commended Governor Adams Oshiomhole over the palliatives to shore up the effects of the recent withdrawal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government. “We want to use this medium to express our undying support for the positive action of the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to ensure the realisation of the total wellbeing of the people of this great state,” the forum said in a press statement issued in Benin City, the state capital. While it saluted the governor for the bold move to abolish all forms…
President Barack Obama’s 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said on Monday. The relative said Sarah Obama was traveling to her home in the village of Kogelo, in western Kenya, when the accident happened Saturday night. He said the vehicle lost control and rolled as the driver attempted to overtake a truck near the Kisumu airport. The relative asked not to be named because he is not authorised to speak for the family. Najim Mawji, the chief operating officer of the…
President Barack Obama said on Sunday there were important risks to consider before any military strike against Iran and made clear he does not want to see more conflict in the oil-producing Gulf region. In a television interview, Obama also said he did not believe Tehran had the “intentions or capabilities” to attack the United States, playing down the threats from Tehran and saying he wanted a diplomatic end to the nuclear standoff. “Any kind of additional military activity inside the Gulf is disruptive and has a big effect on us. It could have a big effect on oil…
Moving from dating to a relationship is somehow hard for so many people. They don’t know how to take the relationship to the next level. So if you have been dating someone for a while now and you feel you are ready to move on to the next level by committing to the relationship, then you will find this resource helpful. Although it may be scary, since you don’t know what your partner may say and the last thing we all want to hear is “I am not interested”. However, it is better to say what you feel than keeping…
Josh Powell’s note was simple and short, a farewell to the world after two years of being scrutinized in the media, hammered by police and questioned by judges, prosecutors and social workers, living his life under a microscope since the day his wife vanished. “I’m sorry, goodbye,” Powell wrote in an email to his attorney just minutes before authorities say he set fire to his home, killing himself and his two young sons days after he was denied custody and ordered to undergo a psycho-sexual evaluation. The Sunday blaze at Powell’s home brought yet another twist in the very…
There was no perfect season on the line this time, but the New York Giants still ended the New England Patriots’ season in heartbreak for the second time in as many Super Bowl meetings, winning Super Bowl XLVI, 21-17, for the fourth NFL championship in franchise history. A spectacular 38-yard Eli Manning-to-Mario Manningham sideline pass with three and a half minutes to play set New York on its way to the game-winning score. A short time later, the Patriots’ defense let running back Ahmad Bradshaw score the game-winning touchdown with their eyes on giving Tom Brady as…
A strong earthquake in the central Philippines killed at least five people Monday as it destroyed buildings and triggered landslides that buried dozens of houses, trapping residents. At least 29 people were missing. The 6.8-magnitude quake, in a narrow strait just off Negros Island, caused a landslide in Guihulngan, a city of about 180,000 people in Negros Oriental province. As many as 30 houses were buried and at least 29 people were missing, Mayor Ernesto Reyes said. Reyes said that four people died there, including a student at a college and two others in an elementary…
Gunmen suspected to be members of dreaded sect, Boko Haram, have shot and killed a State Security Service officer in Damaturu, Yobe State. The AFP, which first reported the development, said though the police confirmed the shooting, it could not confirm if the officer died. The Commissioner of Police, Yobe State Police Command, Lawan Tanko, confirmed the shooting. Tanko, however, said he was not sure the SSS officer, whose identity could still not be confirmed as at press time, died. Tanko said: “I received the report of the gun attack on the state security service…
Rap superstar 50 Cent feels confident his home state team the New York Giants will beat the New England Patriots at the Super Bowl Sunday, and he’s willing to bet on it. In an exclusive Yahoo! interview, the artist born Curtis Jackson explained why he responded to a wager proposed by another hip-hop star, Cash Money Records co-founder Bryan “Baby” Williams. “Baby had said he had $5 million on the Patriots,” 50 explained while sitting in the trailer backstage of the Bud Light Hotel in Indianapolis. “I just think he was just passionate about the Patriots winning…
Ignoring a US threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country. Egypt’s military rulers had already deeply strained ties with Washington with their crackdown on US-funded groups promoting democracy and human rights and accused of stirring up violence in the aftermath of the uprising a year ago that ousted Hosni Mubarak. The decision to send 43 workers from the various groups to trials marks a sharp escalation in the…
The President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has called for decisive actions in tackling the country’s security challenge. Mark, in a statement to mark the Eid El-Maulud, said: “The current security challenge which has truly tasked and threatened the nation must be decisively confronted. “This is no time to sit on the fence and engage in the blame game. “The situation has degenerated to an intolerable level leading to the mass movement (exodus) of our people from one end of the country to the order. “Government at all levels and the security operatives must…