Nigeria News

Former NFA board member, Elder Bode Oyewole has says some of the players playing for the Super Eagles in the on going  Nation’s Cup in Angola are not fit.

Elder Oyewole, who had expressed reservation on the calibre of players selected to do battle for the Eagles in Angola said the players were not ideal, especially as some of them were not physically fit, adding that nothing could have been expected from players who are not good enough for their clubs. (more…)

A draw or loss by Nigeria’s Super Eagles in the on going  will signal the sack of Super Eagles Coach Shuaibu Amodu

After losing 3-1 to defending champions Egypt in their opening group game on Tuesday in Benguela, the coach has come under tremendous pressure to deliver victory for Nigeria. Complete Sports has said that NFF officials have been debating pushing aside Amodu and handing the team over to assistant coach Daniel Amokachi. (more…)

Nigeria  will soon sign three key agreement with India  for trade promotion, investment protection and avoidance of double taxation.

The agreements, aimed at doubling India’s trade with Nigeria to $20 billion, would be “the building blocks for negotiations on Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement,” Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma told reporters here on the sidelines of ‘Namaskar Africa’ organised by FICCI and West African trade bloc ECOWAS Commission.

He said the agreements are likely to be signed in June. (more…)

A  posting at CNN ireport states that Nigeria’s President Yar adua died yesterday in Saudi Arabia. The full story is reproduced below:

AMERICAN CHRONICLE
By Hodderway Books
January 11, 2010

Nigerian President, His Excellency Umaru Yaradua is dead according to authoritative sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre.

He died on the 10th of December at 3.30pm at an Intensive Care Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah Saudi-Arabia. Sources at the Hospital say that the First lady wants to keep the news secret for the next few days for personal reasons.

At the time of his death he was surrounded by his wife, Turai and a childhood friend, Nigerian Member of Parliament,

The president left Nigeria fifty days ago after complaining of Chest pains. Sources at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah say that the president suffered among many other things, kidney failure, stroke and massive brain damage.

The President has been bedridden ever since. Nigerian officials had previously lied to the country that the president’s health was getting better while his situation got worse. The president was conspicuously silent regarding the Christmas day bombing in which a 23-year-old Nigerian, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to detonate a bomb on an aircraft that carried nearly 300 people.

by Bankole Olubamise

Karl Maier’s seminal book on Nigeria –This House Has Fallen (Public Affairs 2000), Robert Kaplan’s “The Coming Anarchy” – The Atlantic Monthly – Feb 1994 and the recent presentation by Ambassador Princeton Lyman at the Brown University Colloquia on Chinua Achebe (2009), especially the statement that – “Nigeria is fast becoming irrelevant to the world”- which more or less sums up the entire presentation, are three external commentaries on Nigeria that we must all take to mind when considering the current state of the Nigerian nation.

We have been praying for many things! However, we have to face reality and do the RIGHT things for our prayers to be meaningful. (more…)

Save Nigeria Group is organising protests in Abuja, Nigeria and several other world cities from tomorrow to pressurise Nigeria’s  National Assembly to resolve the constitutional logjam created by the absence of of Nigeria’s President Umaru Yar’adua for the past 49 days ago
Contacts:

C/o Suite 4, 7 & 8, Metro Plaza, Annex 8, Plot 991-992,Zakariya Maimalari, Central Business District, Abuja
Tel: 09-8706714, 07042479429
E-mail:savenaija@gmail.com

A  Nigerian-born academic  Osaore Aideyan says the U.S. has every right to take  stricter security measures agaisnt nationals of several countries including Nigeria considered as security risks

Osaore Aideyan, a visiting assistant professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College, said in a phone interview Thursday that some Muslims in his native country “have become too radicalized” and that Nigeria could develop into a fertile ground for al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations. (more…)

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Mali midfielder Seydou Keita is amazed by his team dramatic come back in todays African Cup of Nations opening match agaisnt the Angolans to draw level at 4-4

Mali was trailing 4-0 with eleven minutes to end of match  but made a  a remarkable comeback against Angola

Barcelona midfielder Keita, who surprisingly started on the bench before entering the fray 35 minutes in, said

”There was a lot of pressure on us. I condeded a penalty and they kept scoring.”I just couldn’t imagine we could fight back like that. We wanted to win but of course we are happy to get a point in the end. We were bad in the first half, mentally we weren’t really at the races. (more…)