Mertesacker admits Anichebe fear

                                                  Victor Anichebe

Per Mertesacker has hailed Arsenal’s defensive resilience after they subdued Everton’s in-form striker Victor Anichebe.

In the build-up to Tuesday night’s 0-0 draw at Emirates Stadium, David Moyes had challenged Anichebe to continue his improvement after a series of powerful displays.

Anichebe, 24, bullied Tottenham’s rearguard as Everton earned a hard-fought point at White Hart Lane before scoring his sixth goal in 13 Premier League starts with a fine hooked volley in last weekend’s 2-0 win over Queens Park

Boston shut down in hunt for bomb suspect

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts (AFP) – Thousands of heavily armed police went door-to-door through a Massachusetts town on Friday in an unprecedented massive hunt for the remaining Boston marathon bombing fugitive.

Authorities halted all public bus and train services in the Boston region and told hundreds of thousands of people in several towns around Watertown to stay home in a bid to isolate the suspect.

Fleets of buses were sent to Watertown to ferry out nervous inhabitants. Those who stay were ordered to remain in their homes and only answer the door if they were

CCECC worker drowns in Ikorodu river

                                         Balogun

The body of a 33-year-old worker with China Civil Engineering and Construction Company, Asher Balogun, was discovered on Wednesday night, two days after he drowned in a river under the Asolo Bridge, Ikorodu, Lagos State.

Balogun drowned on Monday evening at the site of a construction project his company was working on. He was employed as a steel fitter.

The victim, who had been a worker with CCECC since 2010 and was on a wage of N650 per day, had worked for 10 hours like his colleagues on that day before he met his

Dead bombing suspect identified asTamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, second suspect is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19

Boston police have now named the suspect that authorities have been seeking this morning. “Suspect identified as 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge. Suspect considered armed & dangerous,” Boston police said on Tweet

Nigeria needs more vocational centres, not varsities – Okonkwo

The Founder, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, in this interview with some journalists, argues that government is only paying lip service to education. SEGUN OLUGBILE was there

The Founder, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission, Bishop Mike Okonkwo, is an education enthusiast. But much as he loves education, he says neither he nor TREM will set up a university as other faith-based institutions are doing.

The major challenge facing the country, according to him, is unemployment. And to reduce the scourge, Okonkwo believes that investment in vocational education and youth empowerment is key to reversing the trend and consequently enhance the nation’s development.

“As a church, we have primary and secondary schools, but my interest, really, in terms of higher institution, is building a vocational centre. I do not have a dream to establish a conventional university. What informed this is that we have many universities now and many more are

More States’ll be created – NASS

ABUJA— SENATE President, David Mark, said yesterday, that to douse tension in the country, agitation or feeling of marginalization by some minority groups in the country, zoning or rotation of top political offices should be inserted in the constitution.

This came on a day the House of Representatives made public the much expected Constitution Review Peoples Public Sessions Report, which highlighted Nigerians’ clamour for state creation, though with divergent views on number of states to be created

Alhaji Aliko Dangote to build $8bn oil refinery in Nigeria

Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, plans to invest up to $8bn to build a Nigerian oil refinery with a capacity of around 400,000 barrels a day by late 2016, the tycoon told Reuters on Tuesday.
This will almost double Nigeria’s current refining capacity.
“This will really help not only Nigeria but sub-Saharan Africa. There has not been a new refinery for a long time in sub-Saharan Africa,” Dangote said in a telephone interview.

Saudi Arabia deports three men because “they are too handsome”

The delegates from the United Arab Emirates were in attendance at the Jenadrivah Heritage & Culture Festival in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, when religious police officers stormed the stand and evicted the men because “they are too handsome,” according to the Arabic language newspaper, Elaph.

“A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and that the Commission [for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices] members feared female visitors could fall for them,” Elaph reported.

The UAE released an official

MIT Graduate Student Chidube Ezeozue Devotes Energy To Fellow Nigerians

Chidube Ezeozue checks solar panel mountings and connections on a rooftop.

Like many Nigerians, MIT graduate student Chidube Ezeozue grew up frustrated by his nation's erratic electrical grid.

"Electrical outages are a huge problem in Nigeria," says Ezeozue, who is pursuing dual master's degrees in MIT's Technology and Policy Program and in electrical engineering and computer science. "The outages really interrupt everyday life."

Nigeria's supply of electricity is severely limited, resulting in rolling outages: Power is cut off every few hours and redirected to neighborhoods that were previously in the dark. While Nigerians know to expect these power cuts, they rarely know when the outages will happen, or how long they will last.

Boston Marathon bombing: One suspect dead, another on the run

 Two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people this week terrorized the area overnight. One is dead, but the other is on the loose, police say, and he’s armed and dangerous.

Police pursued two men early Friday who shot a police officer to death, stole a vehicle and threw explosives at law officers pursuing them. Authorities believe they are the same two men sought in the marathon attacks.

One died of injuries suffered while battling police early Friday, and the other is on the run in a nearby suburb, authorities said.

Lagos Government declares Third Mainland Bridge safe

LAGOS State Government, yesterday, declared the Third Mainland Bridge safe for public use following apprehension raised in some quarters over the bridge’s condition.

The government, however, stressed the need for regular maintenance programme by Federal Government.

This came as Lagos appealed to Federal Government to make good its promise by refunding the N51 billion it spent over the years for the rehabilitation of Federal Roads in the state.

Isaac Ajisegiri, Husband in Lagos allegedly slits wife's throat in their home

Endurance Ajisegiri's family got a call on Sunday April 14th from her husband, Isaac Ajisegiri, informing them that she had died at their home in the Shasha area of Lagos the previous day and he had taken her corpse to the mortuary. Endurance's family immediately called the police.

So here's what happened according to friends of the late woman. Endurance (pictured above) and Isaac were married for four years and had one child together. They also ran a business together, an education consulting firm. Sometime last year, Endurance

AMAA: Rita Dominic as the last girl standing

With British actor, Dudley O’Shaughnessy, as star guest, Nigerian film practitioners chase laurels at the African Movie Academy Awards holding in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Saturday

There is something peculiar with the African Movie Academy Awards that will be decided on Saturday. Unlike in the past when Nollywood big babes such as Stephanie Okereke, Mercy Johnson and Funke Akindele dominated some major categories, the outlook shows that divas from other generations and countries are also consolidating their positions.

Jim Iyke Unscripted debuts on AfricaMagic

Love or loathe him, Jim Iyke is a superstar. Now, for the first time ever, he invites DStv audiences into his world to get to know the man behind the headlines, thanks to his new reality TV series Jim Iyke Unscripted.

The show debuted Thursday on AfricaMagic Entertainment amid applause from viewers. For the actor, the show remains an exclusive probe into his glamorous yet, controversial lifestyle. Welcome to Jim’s world as he promotes his latest movies while delving into

What does Obasanjo want?

You couldn’t miss the headline. I am referring to the conclave of gerontocrats that took place earlier in the week. It centred on a former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.

“Anenih in secret meeting with Obasanjo”, was how The Guardian headlined the event. If there was any doubt about the purpose of the meeting, Anthony Anenih, chair of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party and successor to Obasanjo in the very lucrative post of BoT chairman, dispelled it when he told reporters, “In 2015 we (PDP) will do what we know how to do best”. Of course, we all know what the PDP knows how to do best. And we have