Louis van Gaal confirmed as Manchester United manager By Temitope Adeogun Louis van Gaal has been named as Manchester United Manager, with Ryan Giggs as his assistant. Van Gaal, 62, has signed a three-year contract to succeed David Moyes. The Dutchman, who has won titles with Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and AZ Alkmaar, will take…
Fire Guts 120 palm oil shops in Lagos
Not less than 120 shops used in storing palm oil were on Sunday razed by an early morning fire at the popular Daleko market in Mushin, Lagos. Rasak Fadipe, director, Lagos State Fire Service, said that the fire started at about 1am, while firefighters arrived at the scene at about 1.50am, stressing that they were…
APC wins all seats in Kano council polls
A statement signed by Sani Malumfashi, Chairman of Kano State Independent Electoral Commission, on Sunday, revealed that the All Progressives Congress, APC, has won all the chairmanship and Councillorship seats in Saturday’s council polls in the state. “The election has been largely successful and peaceful and APC won all the 44 local government chairmanship and…
Twin Blasts Hit Gikomba Market, Nairobi
Two explosions have struck the Gikomba market area of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, killing at least 13 persons and injuring scores on Friday. The Kenyan National Disaster Operation Centre said the first explosion occurred in a minibus and the second in the large open-air Gikomba market. Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya has vowed to fight…
Osun bans indiscriminate use of siren
The Osun State Government on Thursday banned indiscriminate use of siren in the state. Sunday Akere, Commissioner for Information and Strategy, revealed the ban in a press statement made available to journalists in Osogbo. “The governor exercising the powers vested in him by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as amended, and…
FUTA DON Wins World Bank N10M Research Grant
Ayoola Olalusi, a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Engineering in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology, SEET,Federal University of Technology, FUTA, Akure, Ondo State, has won a World Bank Research Grant Scheme to the tune of N10.2M. Olalusi’s proposal titled, “Development and Evaluation of a floating fish feed extruder,” which won the grant…
JAMB Fixes May 17 to 31 for 2014 CBT
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Wednesday, announced that the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination through Computer Based Test, CBT, would hold between May 17 and 31. According to a statement released by Fabian Gabriel,Head of Public Relations of the board, the CBT will take place in more than 163 centres in Nigeria and…
UN Appoints first female Peacekeeping Force Commander
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General has named Kristin Lund, as the commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus, on May 13. The Norwegian commander, the first female to command a UN force, would take over the command with 930 soldiers and 66 police on August 13. Lund, 56, would replace Chao Liu from China…
Charles Okah fit for trial, says court
A Federal High Court in Abuja on May 12 declared detained terror suspect, Charles Okah medically fit to face trial for his alleged complicity in the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja that killed and wounded several persons. Charles, the brother of convicted mastermind of the bombing, Henry Okah, who is currently serving time in…
Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners
Nigerian Islamist rebel group, Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted last month in exchange for its prisoners, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. In the video, the authenticity of which is still a subject of investigation, about 100 girls wearing full veils were shown praying in an…
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