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Sir Alex Ferguson has come out on top of another table �� as British football’s wealthiest manager � with his former midfielder Roy Keane in second place. In the week his Manchester United team regained the Barclays Premier League crown, Ferguson has been named the richest boss in the country ...

On Thursday a ghastly motor accident occurred along Owerri Port Harcourt express road after the Army Barracks in Obinze just a few meters after the entrance of Arab Contractors Nig Ltd, involving a Petrol Tanker and a bus carrying full load of passengers. Three passengers died on the spot including ...

After bouncing into the world’s consciousness with coordinated demonstrations last month, the ladies of Femen have gatecrashed a lecture on blasphemy. Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard was drenched in water after members of women’s rights movement Femen protested against homophobia in the Catholic church Shouting slogans against homophobia and accusing the church ...

TV reporter Chen Ying was just about to take her nuptials when a massive earthquake, which has so for far claimed more than 150 lives, struck in southern China. But instead of panicking, her journalistic instincts kicked in and she got straight to work on reporting from the scene. With ...

Barack Obama demonstrated the fine art of parental jujitsu today, in�an interview with the�Today�show’s Savannah Guthrie. Asked whether his daughters think he’s uncool, Obama noted, Michelle and I have used this strategy when it comes to things like tattoos. What we’ve said to the girls is, if you guys ever ...

It seems the MTN Saka don port advert has only successfully helped people moved their eyes from one part of the screen to another. However, the songs being chanted are different. It is not Kirikata Kirikata. According to a recent survey,�statistics as at this morning -25th April 2013 11am show ...

President of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has hired an Israeli firm, Elbit Systems, to monitor the activities of the over 47 million Nigerian internet users. Elbit announced the contract award Wednesday in a global press release but was silent on the Nigerian destination of the contract. Its ...

Luis Suarez has been given a massive 10-match suspension for his shocking bite attack on Branislav Ivanovic. The Liverpool hot-head yesterday admitted a charge of violent conduct. And Suarez’s season has today been ended after an independent panel hit him with the bumper ban. The standard punishment for violent conduct ...

The Management of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun state has denied the recent claims by some students of the University that the school tuition fees of different departments for the next academic session has been increased outrageously. In a statement released and signed by the Director, External and Community Affairs, Joshua ...

The Argentine forward and his team mates were completely outclassed and outmuscled by the Bavarians and have a huge task at the Camp Nou to salvage anything from the tie. �It’s 4-0 and it will be difficult because they are a great team,” Messi told reporters. �They were a lot ...

A man (picture above) was arrested after he was caught with his pants down in his neighbour’s barn. A horse owner saw a man, who was later identified as 47-year-old Tony Hall-Rivas, running from her barn. He was in the process of pulling his pants up. The woman became suspicious ...

Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has been flown back to the United States for urgent medical treatment. Mr. Imoke, who is serving his second term as governor, was in the US for medical treatment related to kidney disease. Two sources confirmed the governor’s medical trip. One source, a ...

The police in Lagos on Monday arraigned a 25-year-old pastor, Tommy Issachar, over an alleged stealing of a female church member’s underwear and N10,000 cash. Issachar, who resides at No 35, Mafoluku St., Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos, appeared before an Oshodi Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, on a two-count charge of breach ...

Some media agencies thought FIFA President Sepp Blatter had stepped down until it was discovered that both his Twitter account and Fifa’s were hacked by �Syrian Electronic Army” not too long ago. The Swiss posted several incriminating messages, with the official World Cup account also hijacked to �confirm” that he ...

At least 185 persons including women and children were reported to have been killed by either gunshots or fire after suspected Boko Haram gunmen engaged soldiers of the Joint Task Force in a deadly shootout that left the commercial border town of Baga in Borno State completely burnt down. Local ...

Residents of Wole Madariola Street, Aguda, Surulere, Lagos have been asking questions about what pushed Chidike Oyeka, a graduate of Madonna University, Anambra, to stab himself repeatedly thereby taking his own life. PUNCH Metro learnt that the Chidike on April 19, 2013, took a kitchen knife and stabbed himself repeatedly ...

Liverpool’s striker could still face an FA probe after admitting his behaviour during a clash with Chelsea was ‘inexcusable’. Liverpool’s Luis Suarez has apologised for biting Chelsea’s Branislav Ivanovic during a Premier League clash. The striker said sorry on his personal Twitter account around three hours after the final whistle ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has stopped the printing of small denomination naira notes in polymer because they fade quickly. The Deputy Governor, CBN, Mr. Tunde Lemo, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Washington on the sidelines of the ongoing Spring Meeting ...

Real Madrid has been listed as the world’s most valuable football club in the latest list of Forbes’ football rich list. Manchester United had held top spot since business analysts Forbes started compiling the list in 2004 but have been overtaken by Real. Barcelona now in third place and Arsenal ...

Chairman, Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan has been released by his captors. P.m News gathered that he was released on Friday night by the kidnappers, who had earlier demanded for $1 million to be paid before his release. The Nation online reported that Head of the Council’s ...