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The Barcelona forward almost missed the Champions League win over Manchester United last Wednesday, but made a late recovery to start the game and help Pep Guardiola’s team to a 2-0 win in Rome.

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The naira, according to agency reports, traded at N160 to the dollar yesterday, compared with about N182 on May 22, when the CBN ban was lifted.

A foreign currency dealer who trades in Surulere, Lagos, said yesterday he bought the dollar at 161 naira today (yesterday).

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Global warning began taking its toll in Lagos, as the atlantic ocean populallry known as the Lagos Bar Beach yesterday, over flown its shoreline flooding almost the entire stretch of Ahmadu Bello Way, in Victoria Island.

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),  has instituted a fresh suit against former Adamawa State Governor, Boni Haruna,  over alleged money laundering involving another N100million. (more…)

Nigeria will meet its target if generating 6,000 megawatts of electricity by December 2009 if Gas is available to fire the turbines, Thisday newspapers reports (more…)

House of Representatives has said contrary  to the impression created by the Presidency, emerging information indicates that the country’s earnings since the beginning of the fiscal year were already in excess of  projections in the 2009 budget. (more…)

TUNISIAN National football team Captain Radhi Jaidi, told an Arab website that he was looking forward to a thrilling 2010n World cup qualifier game against Nigeria on June 20, adding that every member of his team was gearing up for the tie.

” We are leading our group so far, but we know that nothing is certain until we play Nigeria.

“This result is a big morale boost for us and we hope to take this form to the game against Mozambique and Nigeria,” he said. (more…)

The Lagos State Government, Nigeria has shut down the new Africa Shrine, managed by Femi Kuti, son of the later Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti

A letter from Lagos authorities dated Monday, accused the Shrine of breaching the state’s environmental laws citing “noise nuisance, illegal street trading, indiscriminate parking, blocking of access roads and obstruction of traffic.”

Yeni Kuti, a dancer and the eldest child of Fela Kuti, who co-manages the club with Femi, said the state government gave the Kuti family 48 hours “to abate the nuisance and restore the land to a conducive environment” but closed the club less than 24 hours after the delivery of the letter.

“I’m shocked, indignant. They dropped the note on Monday evening and the next day at 9:00 a.m. they had closed the place,” she told AFP.

Fela Aikulapo Kuti died of AIDS on August 2, 1997.

The much publicised  trial of Royal Dutch Shell over alleged involvement in the executions of Nigeria’s civil rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa and 10 other in Nigeria in 1995 has been delayed a US Federal Court (more…)

Niger Delta militants may have been shopping for more sophisticated military hardware, including armoured cars and jets, before the Joint Task Force (JTF) began the ongoing operation in Gbaramatu Kingdom of Delta State, it was learnt yesterday.

JTF Commander Major-Gen. Sarkin Bello, who dropped the hint, said documents gathered from the militants’ headquarters showed that they were in the market for such weapons. (more…)