Obafemi Martins is the highest-paid player in Seattle Sounders history according to a Seattle Times report.
Updated 7 Years ago

FIFA say they expect record attendances at the upcoming Confederations Cup, with 588,178 tickets having already been sold. Brazil are set to stage the tournament – which features the winners of each regional tournament – as they step up their preparations for hosting the 2014 World Cup.
Updated 7 Years ago

Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Keshi, Tuesday assured the Minister of Sports and Chairman, National Sports Commission, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi as well as the top hierarchy of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), that he is fully focused on leading Nigeria to qualify for the 2014 FIFA World Cup finals in Brazil.
Updated 7 Years ago

It was bloody yesterday in Bama, a town 75 kilometres from Maiduguri, the beleaguered capital of Borno State. -Dead: 22 policemen, 14 prison officials, 13 insurgents, 3 kids, 2 soldiers In a movie-like scene, about 10 trucks carrying an unspecified number of gunmen rolled into the town at dawn. The gunmen, believed to be Boko Haram fighters, attacked a police barracks and a military formation. No fewer than 55 persons, including 22 policemen, 13 prison officials as well as several insurgents, died in the mayhem. Among the dead were two women believed to be wives of two policemen and their three children.
Updated 7 Years ago

Youths in Ilupeju-Ekiti, Oye Local Government Area, yesterday protested the killing of a 400-level student of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Seyi Fasere.
Updated 7 Years ago

Military sources have revealed that the Nigerian Air Force Alpha combat aircraft, which crashed near Niamey, Niger Republic on Monday, killing the two pilots on board, was returning from a reconnaissance (recce) mission in Mali in support of the AFISMA operations in the country
Updated 7 Years ago

Four banks have unveiled plans to raise fresh funds to drive their operations and remain competitive. The lenders are Sterling Bank, Diamond Bank, Wema Bank and Stanbic IBTC Holding Company. They will be raising N209.2 billion in the coming months.
Updated 7 Years ago

Despite the global financial crisis, which erupted in 2008 that is yet to abate in Europe and United States of America, estimates from the World Bank has put offshore remittances to Nigeria at $21.0 billion (N3.3 trillion).
Updated 7 Years ago

The Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Skye Bank Plc, Mr. Kehinde Durosinmi-Etti, has said the weak corporate governance among indigenous oil companies discourages banks from lending to them, saying many of the companies have dominant individuals as promoters.
Updated 7 Years ago

The Nigerian equities market benchmark index closed 0.34 per cent lower yesterday to book the second consecutive decline in spite of a rally by banking stocks.
Updated 7 Years ago