The Nigeria Football Federation has withdrawn the Nigerian Futsal team from the race to the World Cup which will be hosted in Thailand in November. The team, coached by ex-international Oladunni Oyekale, were expected to host Egypt in a return-leg qualifying fixture on Saturday in Lagos but the football body said on Tuesday that the match would not hold due to paucity of fund.
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Three-time champion Obinna Metu has reclaimed the 100m title from Ogho-Oghene Egwero in a hotly contested race at the All-Nigeria/Cross River Athletics Championships in Calabar. Peter Emelieze, who came to the London Olympic trials in Calabar as a contender, posted the most disappointing time of 10.39 to finish sixth despite winning his semi-final in 10.21.
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The activities of terror group, Boko Haram, in northern Nigeria have denied the Super Eagles of a high-profile friendly against Brazil. The Eagles were due to play the former world champions in Nigeria during a FIFA window in September but the recent bombings in some northern states forced the Brazilians to reconsider their proposed visit to Nigeria and sought another African side for the friendly.
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The Lagos State Government has arrested three policemen and impounded a Hilux van for driving in the Bus Rapid Transit dedicated lane in violation of the state traffic law.
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Police in Enugu State have arrested nine persons for allegedly belonging to cult groups terrorising the state. The arrest came as the Enugu State University of Technology authorities denied involvement of ESUT’s students in cult-related killings in the state.
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Commander, Lagos State Command, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, Mr. Sule Aliyu, has said the agency seized 936,675 kilogrammes of hard drugs in six months. He also said no fewer than 117 suspects were arrested in the state for drug-related offences.
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A suicide bomber who was blown off with an explosive device he was carrying on Tuesday said on his deathbed that the group was doing “God’s work” and would not stop. The suspected suicide bomber however died in the hospital on Wednesday, police in Bauchi said
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Indications emerged, yesterday, in Abuja that despite the disclosure by the Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Drugs, Narcotics and Economic Crimes, Jagaba Adams Jagaba, claiming ignorance of the $620,000 subsidy bribe money which Farouk Lawan alleged to have given him, Police investigators are still bent on going ahead with inviting him to Force Headquarters to face the Special Task Force for questioning.
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PRELATE of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence Sunday Ola Makinde has warned that if something serious, strategic and meaningful is not done Nigeria may just be working towards another avoidable civil war.
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Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), in Abuja on Wednesday inaugurated a 10-man presidential committee on Nigeria’s Centenary Book. The SGF said that the task before the committee was of great importance, noting Nigeria’s existence as one entity would be 100 years on Jan. 1, 2014.
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