In February of this year Stephen Keshi led the super eagles to reclaim the African cup of Nations after a 19 year gap. He achieved this by taking to the tournament one of the most inexperienced sides Nigeria has...
Roy Keane said the opportunity to work alongside Martin O'Neill was "too good to turn down" as he explained his decision to accept the Republic of Ireland's assistant manager's post.
Keane, 42, said he had always regarded O'Neill as the...
Arsenal reached the Champions League quarter-finals for the 12th successive season as a 3-2 win at Glasgow City sealed a 6-2 aggregate victory.
Suzanne Lappin headed in a second-minute corner for City before Arsenal's Rachel Yankey and Jordan Nobbs scored.
City...
World stocks rose while major government bond yields fell on Thursday after incoming U.S. Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen signaled the bank's massive stimulus policy would be needed for some time.
In remarks prepared for her nomination hearing before a...
Janet Yellen, President Barack Obama's nominee to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve, will offer a stout defense on Thursday of the central bank's aggressive monetary easing before a Senate panel that includes some tough Republican critics.
At a Senate Banking...
French President Francois Hollande (L) German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso leave after a news conference at the end of an international summit
France's economic recovery fizzled out in the third quarter of the...
Every summer I look forward to my vacation in Nigeria with delicious shyness and nostalgia of my boyhood days in a country I was once proud of.
Like most things in life, sometimes we feel disappointed the way things are...
Social contract is an umbilical cord which tethers the conscience of a government to the vulnerabilities and necessities of a people. Graphically, the conscience of a government is assessed by its high or low sensitivity threshold; sensitivity in the...
One thing you cannot take away from Chief Tom Ikimi is his ability to draw symbolisms to illustrate his points. Penultimate week in Port Harcourt, the former External Affairs Minister offered Nigerians another meaning to the APC acronym of...
It is an unfortunate reality of our times that many Nigerians have become experts at disapproving. Indeed, they are lacking in the simple yet humane act of giving credit where it is due. A major case in point is...
