World cup 2010 – The world fill cities to join in party
JOHANNESBURG, June 11 (Codewit) - Township parks and downturn squares across South Africa came alive with the blast of air horns and the dazzling yellow of the national team on...
Polokwane: 4 World Cup games to make impact
POLOKWANE, South Africa (AP)—“Sokkerkoors!†read the headline in local newspaper Polokwane Observer on Friday. Football fever! The atmosphere was building in the smallest of the nine World Cup host cities...
World Cup opens in tragedy for Mandela
JOHANNESBURG (AP)—Nelson Mandela’s 13-year-old great-granddaughter was killed in a car crash, forcing the former president to forego a hoped-for appearance at the World Cup’s opening game Friday.The Nelson Mandela Foundation...
Gold, and lead, bring illness and death in Nigeria
YARGALMA, Nigeria — Mound after tiny mound of red clay earth dots the cemetery on the outskirts of this impoverished Nigerian village where grieving parents come to pray. Children began...
Okonjo-Iweala Warns Against Another Recession
Nigeria's former minister of Finance and Managing Director of the World Bank, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, yesterday warned that if corruption is not properly checked, it would result to another economic...
World cup 2010 -We must beat Nigeria, says Argentine defender
Argentine defender Nicolas Burdisso has declared Saturday's World Cup opener against the Super Eagles in Johannesburg a must win encounter for the South Americans if they are to have a...
Bankole fights back to his political enemies
Speaker Dimeji Bankole yesterday launched moves to stop "the progressives" pushing for his sack. Minority Leader Mohammed Ali Ndume, who described the Bankole-must-go lawmakers as "plotters", accused them of using...
My daughter seduced me -she enjoyed it
A 37-year old man from Akwa Ibom State, Philips Ben, who allegedly put his 12-year-old daughter in the family way, claimed he was seduced by the girl. Besides, he denied...
First game of the 2010 World Cup:Mexico-South Africa Preview
Hosting the World Cup already has South Africa feeling proud, but translating those emotions into results on the field might be a problem.Considered one of the worst teams to host...
Nigeria World Cup 2010 Team Profile unveiled
Nigeria can boast something only a half-dozen other teams in the world can right now: they’ll be playing the World Cup on their home continent come June. Beyond that, they...