Politics Governance

Wimbledon: Mueller sends Nadal home

July 11, 2017 Admin

Thirty four-year-old Gilles Mueller played the best tennis of his career today thwarting Rafael Nadal’s bid for Wimbledon quarter-final. Rather, it was the man from Luxembourg that prevailed, outlasting Nadal, the French Open champion, in one of the longest matches in the history of the tennis championship. He took the first two sets 6-6 6-4 and Nadal came back forcefully to take the next two in a similar scoreline. The fifth set went into a tie break, with Mueller winning 15-13. “I haven’t really realised what just happened – it’s…

Mystery of the missing president fuels political intrigue in Nigeria

July 11, 2017 Admin

Nigeria’s ailing president has not been seen in two months and has spent over a third of the year so far abroad, with no known plans to return. More than a month since the two-year midpoint of his presidency, Muhammadu Buhari is still in London receiving treatment for a mystery illness that many believe to be cancer. His aides refuse to say what is wrong with him, and on his last trip back to Nigeria, Buhari said only that he had never been so sick, and hinted that he had…

Microsoft to offer local version of Azure cloud service

July 11, 2017 Admin

Microsoft Corp on July 10 unveiled a new service that allows customers to use its cloud technology on their own servers, part of the company’s efforts to refocus its product line to compete more effectively with rivals Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google. The world’s biggest software maker is looking to carve out a niche among customers who cannot or do not want to move all their computing operations to the massive shared data centres that are collectively known as the cloud. “One of the key differentiations we have with…

Dangote Foundation Donates N50m To Victims Of Yoruba, Hausa Clash In Ile-Ife

July 11, 2017 Admin

Financial relief came the way of victims of the recent Yoruba and Hausa communal clash in Ile Ife, Osun State, as Dangote Foundation donated N50 million to 220 victims to cushion the effect of the violence. At the grand ceremony held at the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwunsi and witnessed by the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, yesterday in Ile Ife, the chief executive officer of Dangote Foundation, Zouera Youssoufou said that the Foundation is reinforcing unity, peace between the Hausa and Yoruba community in…

NMA alerts Nigerians on Ebola, Lassa fever

July 11, 2017 Admin

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has alerted Nigerians on the need to raise their guard against another outbreak of Lassa fever and Ebola. Dr Tunde Olawepo, the Chairman of the association in Kwara, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Ilorin. Olawepo also warned the country not to let down its guard against the deadly virus, Ebola and Lassa fever. He noted that the government and people have relaxed measures that were initiated to contain the spread of Ebola at its…

Nigerian civil war: Victory remains elusive, 50 years on

July 11, 2017 Admin

On July 6, 1967, civil war broke out in Nigeria between the country’s military and the forces of Biafra, an independent republic proclaimed by ex-Nigerian military officer Odumegwu Ojukwu on May 30 of that year. The war killed more than 1 million people, many of whom died from starvation. It ended in January 1970 with the reintegration of Biafra into Nigeria. Malnutrition, Red Cross, kwashiorkor, relief flights, genocide, the Uli airstrip used by Biafran planes to elude the Nigerian blockade, mercenaries, the Aburi accord that broke down and led to…

US jails Nigerian Animasaun for wire fraud

July 11, 2017 Admin

A Nigerian, Fawaz Olanrewaju Animasaun will spend the next two years in jail in the United States for defrauding East Texans and others out of nearly $1 million. Twenty seven year-old Animasaun, is one of two persons named in a federal indictment for charges of aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank fraud, as well as aiding and abetting. He was traveling to the U.S. from Ghana, by way of Amsterdam, when he was arrested at the airport in New York in November last year. Just a few weeks…

Jay-Z extends return to music with tour plan

July 11, 2017 Admin

Rap mogul Jay-Z on Monday announced a tour across North America, extending his return to music after releasing an introspective and widely acclaimed album. Jay-Z, who has devoted the past several years to business projects, will open the tour October 27 in Anaheim, California, and play a total of 31 dates across the United States and Canada through December, promoters said in an announcement. The rapper will preview his tour with two previously announced headlining sets in September — Made in America, a Philadelphia festival that will partially raise money…

16 killed as US military plane crashes

July 11, 2017 Admin

No fewer than 16 marines were killed when a U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening, a regional emergency management official said. The plane crashed into a soybean farm in northern Mississippi’s LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state capital.The Clarion-Ledger newspaper said debris of the crash spread about 5 kilometer radius. Captain Sarah Burns, a spokeswoman for the Marine Corps, said only that a U.S. Marines KC-130 Hercules transport aircraft had “experienced a mishap,” with news media initially reporting five confirmed…

Etisalat pulls out of Nigeria

July 11, 2017 Admin

Etisalat has terminated its management agreement with its Nigerian arm and has given Etisalat Nigeria three weeks to phase out the brand in the country. The decision of the Abu Dhabi owned telecommunications networks resulted after its $1.7 billion loan talks collapsed. Chief executive of Etisalat International, Hatem Dowidar said on Monday that the there was no need for the brand in Nigeria after the collapse of the loan talks. Nigerian regulators intervened last week to save Etisalat Nigeria from collapse after lenders were calling for the probe and total…