Why I embarked on Vote Not Fight Campaign –Tuface Idibia

Afro reggae singer, Tuface Idibia, has opened up on the reasons why he chose to embark on his Vote Not Fight campaign.
In a chat with The Entertainer, Tuface, who also has a foundation, the Tuface Idibia Foundation, said that the bottom line for him is that the project is all about Nigeria: “This is all about Nigeria, it’s about our future as a country. In less than six months, Nigeria will embark on the 2015 General Elections so we need to reach out to the youths who are the cannon fodder for politi­cians during elections; we need to enlighten them that election is not war.

AFCON 2015 QUALIFIER: Sudan sinks Eagles in Khartoum

Nigeria’s hope of de­fending her title at next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco got slimmer yester­day after the Super Eagles were stunned 0-1 by the Jediane Falcons of Sudan.
It was Sudan’s first victory over Nigeria since the East African nation won 4-0 in the first international football between both countries on November 28, 1963. Nigeria had won six out of their 11 previous clashes while both sides settled for draws four times.

NAMIBIA 2014: Empty stadia as 9th African Women Championship kicks off

The much an­ticipated 9th African Women Championship(AWC) kicked off in Wind­hoek , Namibia, with fans staying way from the continental soccer fiesta designed by CAF to show case African Women football.
In attendance was CAF President Issa Hayatou and Namibian Prime Minister, Hage Geingob,  who declared the champi­onship open.

NAMIBIA 2014: Falcons off to flying start

Nigeria Super Falcons got off on soaring wings in their African Women Champi­onship (AWC) campaign, thumping hard talking Les El­ephantes of Cote d’Ivoire 4-2 in the second match of the opening day at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Wind­hoek, Namibia Saturday evening.
In a weekend that saw Super Eagles’ fall flat in their AFCON 2015 qualifiers in far away Khartoum, Sudan , Falcons gave the nation something to cheer about registering their presence in Namibia with Desire Oparanozie scoring a brace for the six times champions.
Super Falcons began the match with the duo of Asisat Oshoala and Desire Oparanzie bombarding the fellow West Africans and wanted to make lasting impressions.

AFCON 2015 qualifiers :Bafana stuns Congo in Point-Noire

Goals from Bongani Ndu­lula and Tokelo Rantie secured a 2-0 win for South Africa over Congo in a 2015 African Cup of Nations Qualifier at Stade Municipal in Pointe-Noire yesterday.
The victory moves Bafana Bafana top of Group A after three rounds of qualifiers.
Shakes Mashaba made three chang­es to the side that held defending AF­CON champion, Nigeria, to a goalless draw last time out with Oupa Manyisa and Sibusiso Vilakazi dropping to the bench.
Bournemouth striker, Tokelo Ran­tie, returned to the starting XI along with the recalled Thulani Serero while there was also a start for 17-year-old Rivaldo Coetzee who subsequently became the youngest ever Bafana in­ternational.

Cookie crumbles for 50 ex-Niger Delta militants

By NGOZI UWUJARE

…As police rescue 3 kidnap victims
The cookies have crum­bled for a 50-man gang of ex-militants in Rivers State, who re-grouped under the sponsorship of a cer­tain lady named Mrs. Okagwu, with intent to serve as political thugs during the forthcoming 2015 elections.
The bubble burst for the group, known as Niger Delta Youth Movement, when one of the members, 22-year-old King Asuo was arrested by police as he was returning from repair­ing his AK-47 rifle which had a technical fault.
As Sunday Sun gathered from the Rivers State Commis­sioner of Police, Mr Dan Bature, the ex-militant turned political thug was arrested on a motor­cycle by men of Abua Police Station, before the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) headed by Supol Tunji Disu, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) waded into the matter, confiscated the gun and took over investigation of the case.
Asuo, in an interview with Sunday Sun at the headquar­ters of SARS revealed how he acquired the rifle which is used mainly by the police, but is widely available in the underground criminal networks across the country.

Ekweremadu: A champion of rural transformation

By MAZI BISMARCK OJI

My heart lights up each time I recall the events of that bright Tuesday, November 26, 2012, afternoon at Ugwu Tank, Okpome, Agbada and Nenwe in Enugu State. It was the day Ekwerema­du flagged-off the construction of the N12 Billion Nenwe-Odume-Uburu federal road project. The ecstasy of the jubilant mammoth crowd demonstrated that something out of the ordinary; something they had given up hope on, was happening in their lives.
Oduma in Enugu and Uburu in Ebonyi State are two great agrarian communities, which seemed to have been cut off from civilization owing to the menace of impassable roads. Before the advent of colonialism, these towns were renowned as home to men of valour and long distance traders. In fact, historical trade routes passed through these towns to Bende and Arochukwu in Abia State, Itu in present day Akwa Ibom State, and thence to Calabar, Cross River State.
The Oduma and Uburu towns have since had the misfortune of isolation from the centres of development. As such, successive govern­ments, both federal and state had hitherto over­looked the construction of this vital road that would traverse Nenwe in order to link the two towns up with the Enugu-Port Harcourt Ex­pressway and thence to the outside world.