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November 11, 2013

How we turned Eaglets into goal-scoring machines – Garba

The team scored 26 goals en route winning the Cup, a record feat since the competition started in China in 1985. Speaking on how his players were turned into sharp shooters, Garba told reporters that it was down to the experienced coaching crew, which sold the philosophy of total attacking football to the players, who […]

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This Is Bad: ETS bars Nigerian students from GRE, TOEFL exams amid security fears

  Nigerian candidates with aspirations of studying abroad were shocked last week when they received notice that their Graduate Record Examination (GRE) had been postponed. No new date was given. Now the administrators of that examination, as well as the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exams have released an official statement saying

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Mikel, Moses make shortlist for BBC African Footballer of the Year award

  The British media outfit has announced candidates to win the prestigious individual trophy this year, with the Super Eagles duo making the cut. Nigeria’s Mikel Obi and Victor Moses have been shortlisted for the 2013 BBC African footballer of the year award, with title-holder Yaya Toure, Gabonese star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Burkina Faso forward

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Jamal Edwards: The Amateur Film-Maker Who Became Self-made Multimillionaire

Jamal Edwards made his way from a teenager on a council estate in west London to self-made multimillionaire in a very short space of time. This amateur film-maker turned media boss, as his capital now exceeds £8m (N2,030,500,000), and counts famous entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson (pictured) as one of his friends. Jamal is the owner

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Sokoto Donates 100 Computers To Physically Challenged Students

  The Sokoto State Government on Saturday donated 100 computers to some physically challenged students of the Abdulrasheed Adisa Raji Special School for the Physically-Challenged. The Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Yusuf Danchadi, made the disclosure at the graduation of the beneficiaries from a three-month computer appreciation course. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that

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Lower Education Levels Linked To Unhealthy Diets

  People with lower levels of education may eat larger amounts of unhealthy, calorically dense food than those with a higher education level, possibly because they are more physically active, according to new research published November 6th in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, by Jonas Finger and colleagues at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin,

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