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Isn’t there a mistake? Shouldn’t he be number one considering Enyeama`s brilliant performance for the super Eagles as the last man standing? Anyone working for Nigeria should be given extra extra extra credit.. But it’s alright. Vincent is another goalkeeper who arrived after a record-breaking season at club level. Enyeama carried on the form that made him nigh-on unbeatable for Lille, pulling off a series of extraordinary saves, starting in the first match against Iran, when Nigeria dominated but would have lost if the goalkeeper had not kept enough concentration to tip away a header from Reza Ghoochannejhad. He then kept Bosnia-Herzegovina at bay before thwarting Lionel Messi and Argentina for long periods despite conceding three. When a goalkeeper falls below perfection, however, he can be punished severely and Enyeama’s mishandling of a cross against France enabled Paul Pogba to score the winning goal and ruined another otherwise immaculate performance. Go

Pope Francis has suggested that he might one day resign the papacy like his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI did last year, which would make him the second consecutive Pope to do so after almost 600 years. He said this yesterday Aug. 18th while speaking with reporters on his way back to Rome after his state visit to South Korea. "Some theologians may say this is not right, but I think this way. Let us think about what [Benedict XVI] said, "I have gotten old, I do not have the strength", it was a beautiful gesture of nobility, of humility and courage. But you could say to me, if you at some time felt you could not go forward, I would do the same." Asked about his immense popularity, the Pope, 77, joked that he would probably die in the next 2/3 years so should not get too proud:  “I know this will last a short time, two or three years, and then to the house of the Father.” he said

Islamic State insurgents released a video yesterday Tuesday August 19th purportedly showing the beheading of U.S. journalist James Foley (pictured above), who had gone missing in Syria nearly two years ago, and images of another U.S. journalist whose life they said depended on U.S. action in Iraq. The video, titled "A Message To America," was posted on social media sites. It was not immediately possible to verify its authenticity. Foley, who has reported in the Middle East for five years, was kidnapped on Nov. 22, 2012, by unidentified gunmen. Steven Sotloff, who appeared at the end of the video, went missing in northern Syria while he was reporting in July 2013. Continue... A Twitter account set up by his family to help find him said early on Wednesday: "We know that many of you are looking for confirmation or answers. Please be patient until we all have more information, and keep the Foleys in your thoughts and prayers." The Whi

Home » News » ‘Imoke’s successor must share his vision’ A Cross River State Governor Liyel Imoke’s successor must share his vision, Commissioner for Youths and Sports Development Patrick Ugbe told reporters yesterday. Ugbo said anyone who does not share Imoke’s vision would drag the state backwards The commissioner, who has indicated interest in the job, said: “Every Nigerian now knows that there is a place called Cross River. Even those who have not been here realise that it is a model state. It was not by fluke. It is a journey that started 15 years ago and when Imoke came in, he consolidated on those gains and brought new ideas. During his tenure, we had an economic blueprint. He is doing eight years and you cannot realise all the programmes you have planned in a blueprint within eight years. It is a long term programme. “So anybody coming after Imoke must be ready to continue from where he would stop to sustain the gains we have made over 16 year

AIT For years, the Roman Catholic Church blocked the process because of concerns that he had Marxist ideas. An outspoken critic of the military regime during El Salvador's bloody civil war, archbishop Romero was shot dead while celebrating mass in 1980. Beatification, or declaring a person "blessed", is the necessary prelude to full sainthood. The bishop was one of the main proponents of liberation theology - an interpretation of Christian faith through the perspective of the poor. On Monday, the pope said he was hoping for a swift beatification process. - See more at: http://aitonline.tv/post-pope_francis_lifts_ban_on_beatification_of_murdered_archbishop#sthash.hAFKY5fY.dpuf

Throughout the United States, many Native American languages are struggling to survive. According to Unesco, more than 130 of these languages are currently at risk, with 74 languages considered “critically endangered.” These languages preserve priceless cultural heritage, and some hold unexpected value — nuances in these languages convey unparalleled knowledge of the natural world. Many of these at-risk languages are found in my home state of California. Now for some, only a few fluent speakers remain. This Op-Doc tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language, and the dictionary she has created. I met her through the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival, an organization that encourages the revival of languages like Wukchumni. Through training and mentorship, it has supported Ms. Wilcox’s work for several years. Ms. Wilcox’s tribe, the Wukchumni, is not recognized by the federal government. It is part of the broade

A 70-year-old man, Pa Samuel Osuntoyinbo, was yesterday, injured in a building that collapsed at Oke-Ayepe area of Osogbo, Osun State capital. Pa Osuntoyinbo, who lived in the storey building located on Ilesa Road, Oke Ayepe, was said to have lost his two legs in the incident. It was gathered that the building, which was said to have been built for close to 100 years, collapsed in the early hours of yesterday, following a downpour that lasted for several hours. The Head of Disaster Rescue Management Unit of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Mr. Olufemi Awofade, said the building was dilapidated, adding that Pa Osuntoyinbo was rescued due to the timely intervention of men and officers of the NSCDC in the state. He said the victims of the building collapse were rushed to government hospital by men of the Osun Ambulance Service, where they were still receiving medical treatment. According to him, “two years ago, the Disaster Rescue Management Un

National Guard Presence Fails to Calm Protests FERGUSON, Mo. — Violence erupted here once more overnight, even as Missouri National Guard troops arrived, the latest in a series of quickly shifting attempts to quell the chaos that has upended this St. Louis suburb for more than a week. In the days since an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer here on Aug. 9, an array of state and local law enforcement authorities have swerved from one approach to another: taking to the streets in military-style vehicles and riot gear; then turning over power to a Missouri State Highway Patrol official who permitted the protests and marched along; then calling for a curfew. Early Monday, after a new spate of unrest, Gov. Jay Nixon said he was bringing in the National Guard. Hours later, he said that he was lifting the curfew and that the Guard would

A middleaged woman, Mariam Adegoke has dragged her husband, Akeem before a Grade C Customary Court sitting in Agodi area of Ibadan over alleged death threat. Mariam, who resides with her husband and children at Apetere area of Ibadan, wants their 18-year-old marriage dissolved because she suffered a heavy burden in the marriage. She complained that she could not leave her husband, before now because his first wife died two years after divorcing him. “I’m his second wife and I had wanted to divorce him before now, but he threatened me that any woman that divorces him would die. And I learnt his first wife died two years after divorcing him. “So, I’m pleading with this court to help dissolve this union so I can go my way,” she told the court. According to her, Akeem had not been taking care of her and the children but depended on her business for his fin

Six Nigerians have been quarantined in Germany and Vietnam because of suspicion of carrying Ebola virus. One Nigerian in Germany, two at Vietnam’s international airport on arrival and three students have confined to their abode for the next 21 days in the Asian country. Two Nigerians on a Qatar Airways flight to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat Airport last night were taken to a city hospital after being found to have flu-like symptoms that could be tied to the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Tran Dac Phu, chief of the Heath Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department in Vietnam, said the two passengers departed on Monday from Nigeria on the QR964 flight. They took seats 25B and 26D. The two Nigerians were then transported to the quarantined area of the Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Diseases Hospital to stay indoors under a 21-day fever watch. The Preventive Health Department, the city’s Pasteur Institute, in collaboration with the World Health Organisation

There was fear in Ibadan yesterday, when news broke out that the first case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has been recorded in Oyo State. A sick baby, who was taken to Adeoyo State Hospital, Ring Road, Ibadan on Monday, was said to have manifested symptoms of the disease at the hospital. It was gathered that the development caused commotion in the hospital as staff members, patients as well as other visitors reportedly ran for safety. Some residents of the community, it was gathered were considering relocation from the area, pending the confirmation of the case by the government, while many have vowed not to go near the hospital, to avoid contracting the virus. But the state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Muyiwa Gbadegesin, told newsmen in Ibadan that it was too early to conclude that the suspected patient had the virus, adding that blood sample had been collected from the baby for laboratory analysis at the virology laboratory of the University College Hospital (

•Also in two other locations THERE were wailing and gnashing of teeth when fire displaced no fewer than 5,000 residents of Oko Baba, a slum in Ebute Meta, Lagos Mainland. The Monday night inferno gutted over 1,500 shanties. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said the fire, which started about 9.30pm around Kadara/Coates Street, destroyed properties worth millions of naira. It was learnt that the fire which raged till about 2.37am yesterday, razed five bungalows constructed with sand concrete. Sources said the inferno, which spread to surrounding buildings and shanties, was caused by an exploded generator. The LASEMA boss, Femi Oke-Osayintolu, said it took the combined efforts of various stakeholders to arrest the situation early yesterday. “Over 1, 500 houses made up of shanties were razed by the inferno. Also over 5, 000 people were displaced. Saw Mill equipment worth millions of naira, which were completely burnt down, include Spindle, Saw

MOSUL DAM, Iraq — The two bodies lay festering in the midday sun on Tuesday, some of the only remnants of the Sunni militant force that until Monday night controlled the strategically important Mosul Dam. Photo Kurdish pesh merga at the Mosul Dam the morning after they and Iraqi forces defeated militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Credit Lynsey Addario for The New York Time  Around them was the evidence of not just a fierce battle but also a different sort of fight: buildings reduced to rubble; cars churned into twisted metal; mammoth craters gouged from the road. All bore testament to the deadly effect American airstrikes were having on the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, who until this month were marauding over northern Iraq with little resistance and who two weeks ago seized control of the dam. It was n

I n Abba, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State new yam festival is of great importance to the people. The annual event signifies the readiness of the yam planted during the year being ready for harvesting and consumption by the people. The special event is shown by its style of celebration and the process which the new yam undergoes before it could be declared ripe for anybody in the community to consume. Before the ceremony is completed, nobody in Abba, no matter his or her status, would eat the new yam until the traditional ruler in the presence of the elders and other members of the community have fully completed the annual ritual, which has no fetish practice attached. The new yam festival is usually a two-day affair and because of its importance the natives of the community travel from far and wide to come home to observe and participate in the age-long festival which has indeed continued to increase in style and magnitude. This year’s festival

(ABUJA) The Boko Haram insurgency continues to expand in size and tactics, kidnapping villagers and forcing them to fight. But what may appear to be mayhem in northeastern Nigeria, is actually a strategy to wrest territory from the Nigerian government by isolating the northern seat of power. Kidnapping is becoming more common as Boko Haram militants storm villages, taking men, women and children. Last week, nearly 100 victims were reportedly rescued from insurgents, but no one knows how many are still being held. The victims are often forced to join Boko Haram, blurring the line between the attackers and those they attack. “These young people out there in the forest [are]without hope now,” said James Wuye, a pastor who counsels kidnap victims in northern Nigeria. “Their only hope is to die. We should save them. I think we should pity everybody on e

(BUENOS AIRES, Argentina) Two great nephews of Pope Francis, and their mother, have been killed in a traffic accident in Argentina, say police. The accident took place in the early hours of the morning on the Rosario-Córdoba highway in the district of Cordoba, 550km (340 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, said police commissioner Carina Ferreyra. The Pope’s nephew, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, was reportedly driving a vehicle with his wife Valeria Carmona, 36, and their two children, Jose agd 8 months and 2-year-old Antonio. Mr Bergoglio, who is the son of Alberto, the Pope’s late brother, has been hospitalised and is in a serious condition. Early reports suggest the vehicle they were travelling in hit a truck in front of them. The family were reportedly returning to Buenos Aires following a holiday weekend. Vatican spokesman the Rev Federico Lombardi said “The Pope was info

A female consultant physician at the First Consultant Hospital, Lagos who participated in the treatment of Late Patrick Sawyer who died of Ebola Virus Disease is dead. She was confirmed dead by Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu on Tuesday night. The deceased doctor was not named, but Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh had been undergoing treatment at the EVD Isolation Centre in Lagos after leading the team that treated Sawyer. “With this unfortunate development the total number of Ebola Virus related deaths in Nigeria now stands at five. The other two patients currently under treatment in the isolation wards are stable and are being taken care of,” the minister said in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media and Communication, Dan Nwomeh.