NFF Toils with Brazil's World Cup, Plans to borrow N50m for Ethopia game

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will again have to borrow for next weekend’s 2014 World Cup playoff against Ethiopia, officials disclosed.

The NFF need at least 50 million Naira for a November 16 playoff for a place at next year’s World Cup in Brazil.

36 feared killed as Fulani herdsmen strike in Benue

No fewer than 36 persons were, yesterday, feared killed while seven villages were overrun by suspected Fulani herdsmen in an outbreak of fighting between the invaders and native farmers in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.

The massacre came barely two days after some assailants struck at Ikpele and Okpopolo communities in the state, killing seven farmers and displacing over 6,000 inhabitants.

People thought I was too small, skinny to be a good player – Iheanacho

Nigeria’s outstanding No10 Kelechi Iheanacho put on a dazzling display of football here in UAE, scoring six goals and setting up a further seven en route to a fourth title for the west Africans. A playmaker and lethal finisher all rolled into one, his trademark goal celebrations had the Nigerian fans here in UAE on their feet from start to finish.

El-Rufai calls President Jonathan lazy, docile, hopeless, useless

To me this is unwarranted and unacceptable. Good politicians do not go this far on their opponents no matter what. What they do is to bring out the areas their opponents/Leaders are not doing well and tell us how they are going to correct it if they occupy the position.

Honestly am not in support of this!!!

APC wants APGA’s Obiano prosecuted for multiple registration

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately commence the process of prosecuting APGA’s governorship candidate for Anambra, Mr. Willie Obiano, following the revelation that he engaged in multiple voter registration.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said Obiano’s multiple registration provides the best test case yet for INEC to convince Nigerians that it is indeed willing and able to discourage multiple voter registration by making those who engage in this electoral fraud to face the full wrath of the law.

Man who had breast implants for a BET over 17 years ago wants to keep them for LIFE.

A man who had breast implants for a bet 17 years ago has confessed he loves them too much to get rid of them.

Brian Zembic earned himself a cool £62,000 when he agreed to go under the knife for the cosmetic surgery in 1996 and keep his new implants in for a whole year afterwards.

Under the terms of the original wager, it was also agreed Brian would pocket £6,200 for every additional year on top of that.

B-R-EA-K-I-N-G News!!! APC Pulls Out of Eaglets Victory Celebration.

Party orders their governors and supporters not to receive the players and Says:

The victory is a distraction to their attempt to arrest power from incompetent and clueless leadership of Jonathan. - APC leaders.

The Nigerian Opposition party, the All Progressive congress (APC) has cut short their celebration with Nigerins over the victory of the Golden Eaglets on the FIFA U-17 world cup.

The Progressive party claimed that joining in the celebration will be giving a pass mark to President Jonathan's Transformation Agenda and that it will not help their fortune in 2015.

Night Travels: Reasons why some people prefers it and others don't!

Saturday Punch analyses why some people prefer to travel at night despite the inherent dangers associated with it. Below is the full findings...

Night travel may be fraught with a lot of dangers in Nigeria where highways are not in the best condition and robbers use the state of the roads as an opportunity to ambush interstate commercial vehicles.

But in spite of these inherent dangers, there seems to be no reduction in the number of people who choose to go on journeys in the night.

Investigation by Saturday PUNCH showed that the attraction of some of the passengers to the night travel was more bizarre as much as it was almost unbelievable.

ASUU seeks Concrete Agreement from FG to Call of Strike

 

From the Punch

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have given the Federal Government certain conditions to be met before the union could call off its four-month old strike.

Part of this condition, Saturday PUNCH learnt, is that all federal parastatals in charge of fund, labour, and education must sign the agreement purportedly reached between its leadership and the Federal Government on Tuesday.

Nigerian man beaten almost to death Nigerians are being Maltreated in India

Locals seem to be targeting Nigerians in India for no good reason. On October 30, a 37 year old man Obado Uzoma Simeon was murdered in Parra village, North Goa, India. Aside from Uzoma, several other Nigerians have been harassed, assaulted and beaten by the locals and Indian police isn't doing anything about the targeted violence. Locals claim the Nigerians being targeted are drug dealers.

Nigeria wins FIFA U 17 World Cup for the 4th Time by beating Mexico 3-0

Nigeria became the most successful team in FIFA U-17 World Cup history with a 3-0 win over holdersMexico at the Mohammad Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. The final was a rematch of the 6-1 winNigeria inflicted on the Mexicans in Group F play and sees the Golden Eaglets lay hands on the junior world trophy for the fourth time in their history, one better than South American giants Brazil. When the final whistle went in the UAE capital, fans and players alike rejoiced, fingers pointed to the sky, with what has become the traditional Nigerian celebration of: “yes, yes yes!”

Good Decisoin: Jonathan rejects compensation for Boko Haram victims

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday admitted that despite the efforts of the nation’s security agencies targeted at curtailing the activities of members of the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, his administration could not be said to have won the war against terror.

PHOTOS: Couple create gruesome wedding cake made of their own severed heads to show "Till death do us part"

A film buff couple had a gruesome wedding cake made of their own severed heads.

Natalie Sideserf, 28, a cake artist spent forty hours creating the cake to match her movie-themed wedding.

Both heads are lifelike, with blank soulless eyes, hair matted with blood and bleeding severed necks.

They were placed on a white board, with a banner draped on the base aptly reading: ‘Til Death Do Us Part.’

She said they chose it because her husband David Sideserf, 30, is a fan of scary movies.

See the Cake after the cut...

ASUU Agreement: FG to give varsities N1.1tn in five years

From the Punch

Details of the Monday/ Tuesday marathon meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities have begun to emerge.

The PUNCH gathered on Tuesday evening that a key component of the agreement reached by the parties was that the Federal Government would inject N1.1tn into public universities in the next five years.

Fingerprints needed to identify Bank's customers by next year

From the Punch.

The Central Bank of Nigeria and the Bankers Committee on Tuesday sealed a biometric solution pact with a German Firm, Dermalog, for the development of a payment system that would be driven by fingerprints.

The move, according to the Governor, CBN, Mr. Lamido Sanusi, will help to revolutionise the country’s payment system.

Nigeria beat Sweden 3-0 to secure a place in the final of the FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Nigeria were made to work for their 3-0 semi-final win over Sweden in Dubai, a result that sends them to the final of the FIFA U-17 World Cup. Taiwo Awoniyi scored his third goal in two games to help send the Golden Eaglets through to the final, where they will meet Mexico in another Group F rematch.

The game started at a tremendous pace, both sides carving out half-chances inside the first 60 seconds. After the initial frenzy of attacks cooled, the pattern of play became clear. The Nigerians pressed forward in waves, trying to pin Sweden back and cut off the supply lines to foraging striker Valmir Berisha.

BMW Scam: EFCC Interrogates Coscharis MD; First Bank Officials In Abuja

Weeks after news of a fraudulent car scam broke in Nigeria’s Ministry of Aviation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday stepped into the matter by interrogating in its Abuja offices, Josiah Samuel, the Managing Director of Coscharis Motors Limited, a supplier of the two BMW armored cars at the center of purchase scam linked to the minister of aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah.

B-R-E-A-K-I-N-G News! ASUU Takes Jonathan's Resumption Date Message To Members.

The yesterday meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resolved that the gates of our Universities should be opened for lectures.

The meeting which lasted for 13 hours, ended at exactly 3.35am this morning.

The ASUU executives who expressed satisfaction, said that they would take the president's message and they deliberations back to their members.

The ASUU president, Dr. Nasir Fagge and his crew came out smiling did not inform the press on the exact resumption date.

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GNI house in Lagos Island on fire

Property worth billions of Naira might have been lost to an inferno that broke out early on Monday at the Great Nigeria Insurance House on the Lagos Island area of Lagos State.

The complex is said to accommodate different businesses, including banks.

One person was feared dead and two sustained varying degrees of injuries.