Goals from Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero sent Manchester City into an FA Cup final and dashed the hopes of Nigeria’s Mikel Obi and Victor Moses. Both players were so hopeful that they could win the English cup with Chelsea to add to the African cup they won in February. City will now play the final against Wigan Athletic after they beat holders Chelsea 2-1 at Wembley on Sunday. The 2011 winners will return on May 11 after they held off a strong fightback from a Chelsea side playing their sixth game in 16 days.
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Kobe Bryant has undergone surgery on an injured Achilles tendon and could be sidelined for up to nine months, the Los Angeles Lakers said on Saturday. Bryant, the fourth leading scorer in NBA history, sustained the injury late in the Lakers’ win over the Golden State Warriors on Friday.
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The founder of Facebook, one of the most popular social network platforms, Mark Zuckerberg, is billed to visit Akwa Ibom State next month. Zuckerberg is one of the guest speakers invited for a youth economic summit organized by the Niger Delta Young Professionals.
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As part of its drive to ensure affordable and efficient internet solution that will boost business in Nigeria, Ambion Wireless Limited, an indigenous internet service provider has launched a new internet solution platform in the country. Ambion Wireless a Super Wi-Fi technology that will leverage on the technology of Google and Microsoft to run has commenced operation with Ikeja, the Lagos State capital as it start-up point.
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The West Africa Gas Pipeline Company will resume gas flow through its pipeline on April 30, 2013. The company’s General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Mrs. Harriet Wereko-Brobby, said this at the Lagos Beach Compressor Station in Badagry on Friday. “We are looking at April 30, 2013 for the pipeline to be back,” she said.
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The Federal Government has invested $1 billion to create incubation centres across the country to spur development of local software content. Two of the centres at Yaba in Lagos and Tinapa in Calabar will be inaugurated this week, thereby flagging off the nurture of a new breed of indigenous information technology (IT) businesses and software developers, BusinessDay has learnt. Nigeria’s N960 billion software industry, which for long has been dominated by foreign firms, is expected to witness significant growth in the area of local content in the next two years if the centres come into operation.
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The number of companies listed in the industrial goods sector of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) will increase very soon as over 100 companies eyeing listing on the exchange, the Chief Executive Officer of the NSE, Mr. Oscar Onyema, has said. There are 27 companies that are currently listed in the industrial goods sector covering building materials, electronic and electrical products, packaging/containers, tools and machinery. The sector contributes 28 per cent to the total market capitalisation of the exchange.
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From April 25 electricity consumers may pay between N25,000 and N50,000 for pre-paid metres for the single phase and three phase models, respectively, under the new Credited Advance Pay for Metering Implementation, CAPMI, scheme.
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The Federal Government is enthusiastic about introducing solar system of lightings into the Nigerian educational institutions across the country to reduce the high expenses on the production of alternative power generation in the sector. And the government is already working towards starting this project in the newly established federal universities across the country. Under the new initiative, government plans to encourage the deployment of 24-hour solar lighting systems in the educational sector.
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Nigeria is said to be on track to join the world’s largest producers of steel in the world from the year 2018, as the country’s potential for iron and steel production is progressively transformed into actual capacity. Chief Executive Officer of African Foundries Limited, Mr. Sanjay Kumar, dropped the hint in Lagos when he announced that the steel giant has concluded plans to ship about 5,000 tonnes of fully-manufactured iron rods to Ghana in what would become their first major export deal.
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