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Nigeria bounced back from their opening day FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Papua New Guinea 2016 defeat by coming from a goal down to record a 3-1 victory over Canada in Port Moresby. Gabrielle Carle had fired the Canucks into the lead at Bava Park on 15 minutes, but an equalising penalty from Chinaza Uchendu just before the break and second-half goals from Joy Bokiri and Chinwendu Ihezuo gave the Falconets their first win of the tournament. Both sides had slipped to heavy losses in their previous Group B clash and were looking to make amends. In an entertaining first…

Bosch Power Box, BPB, is set to change the lives of Nigerian artisans and increase their success just as it has done in Sokoban Wood Village, Kumasi Ghana, where it was launched in 2016. German-based multinational, Bosch Group, is set to bring the BPB concept to African artisans, the informal sector, often the driving force of African economies. This is a revolutionary initiative designed to create, up-skill and grow small businesses and bring them into the formal, mainstream economy. It is a long-term project designed to foster entrepreneurship and ensure a smooth transition for small businesses from the informal to…

Two ‘Yahoo Boys’ have been sent to jail for two years by a Federal High Court, sitting in Benin-City, Edo State on Tuesday November 15, 2016 after they were convicted for fraud. The duo are Aigbe Joseph alias Anthony Styler Malan and Igbinosa Osazee alias Albert Lim. The duo were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on separate charges bordering on possession of fraudulent document containing false pretenses. Upon their arraignment, the convicts pleaded’ not guilty’ to the charge, but later changed their plea to “guilty”. Justice O. O. Tokodo consequently convicted and sentenced them to two…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says US president-elect Donald Trump would be a “natural ally” against terrorism if he could overcome “countervailing forces” in the US administration. “We don’t have a lot of expectations because the American administration is not only about the president; it’s about different powers within this administration,” the Syrian leader told Portuguese television station RTP in his first comments on the outcome of the US election. Asked about Trump’s remarks on being ready to fight the Islamic State extremist group, al-Assad, who spoke in English during the interview broadcast late Tuesday, said, “this is promising but can…

The Federal Government on Wednesday expressed its readiness to spend 150 million dollars on the rural electrification. Babtunde Fashola, the Minster of Power, Works and Housing, disclosed this in Abuja at a business forum on “Financing Opportunities in the Nigerian Power Sector” He said government would use 44 tertiary institutions and small hydro dams in the rural areas as anchors for the electrification programme. Fashola said the money would be deployed towards providing Independent Power Plants (IPPs) to supply electricity to tertiary institutions and rural communities. He said that 37 out of the 44 tertiary institutions audited for the project…

An attempt to kidnap a Nigerian oil magnate, Femi Otedola, has been foiled by the Nigeria Police Force. The IGP’s Intelligence Response Team (IRT) accomplished this task when it arrested a three man notorious kidnap gang on the 23rd June, 2016. The arrest was achieved through coordinated intelligence gathering and deployment of technical investigative tools that spanned several weeks. The Principal suspect, one Ikechukwu Daniel, a 28 year old indigene of Imo State, who is the mastermind of the gang, was rusticated from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria due to his cult related activities on campus in 2009/2010. He also doubles…

Indonesian police say they will proceed with an investigation into a blasphemy complaint brought by Muslim groups against the Christian and ethnic Chinese governor of Jakarta and banned him from leaving the country. The complaint against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, nicknamed “Ahok” and the first ethnic Chinese and Christian governor of the sprawling Indonesian capital, comes as President Joko Widodo tries to keep a lid on security and simmering religious tensions in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. Ari Dono Sukmanto, chief of the National Police criminal investigation department, told reporters that, although there had not been consensus after an initial investigation.…

The renewed fight against Islamist sect, Boko Haram, by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has greatly reduced global terrorism deaths, a new report has shown. Deaths from terrorism in OECD countries however increased by 650 per cent last year despite a marked fall globally as Islamic State (IS)and Boko Haram militants suffered military defeats at home but committed more attacks abroad. The Global Terrorism Index, GTI, said worldwide there had been 29,376 deaths caused by terrorism in 2015, a drop of 10 per cent and the first fall in four years, as action against Islamist militants IS in Iraq and…

The United States of America suffered their worst World Cup qualifying defeat for 36 years when they were beaten 4-0 by Costa Rica on Tuesday. Joel Campbell scored twice for the hosts, with Johan Venegas and Christian Bolanos also on target. USA coach Jurgen Klinsmann, whose side have lost both their opening qualifying games, called it “the defeat that hurts most” of his five-year tenure. “A very, very bitter moment for us. There’s no doubt about it,” he said. The USA had not lost a qualifier by four goals since a 5-1 defeat by Mexico in November 1980. They sit…

The Niger Delta Avengers militant group said it has bombed three oil pipelines in southern Nigeria, an attack it said would lead to a production loss of 300,000 barrels per day in the OPEC-member nation. Attacks on pipelines by several militant groups have slashed Nigeria’s oil production helping to tip the country into recession as it struggles to adapt to the low price of crude globally. The Niger Delta Avengers, blamed for a wave of such attacks since the start of the year, said the latest bombing was to register its displeasure with way the government was handling grievances in…