Friday, 18 March 2016

Uefa Champions League Draw Quarter Final List | See Fixtures

Manchester City will face Chelsea’s conquerors Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

News Headlines -18/3/2016

VANGUARD

*Ahead of re-run polls: Fear, unease as Rivers violence claims 2 soldiers

*Buhari urged to check marginalisation of local contractors

*Buratai visits Onitsha, tasks army on professionalism

*BOUNDARY DISPUTE: 2 feared
dead, 1 missing in Ebonyi

*Multiple salaries: Kwara to prosecute culprits

*N2bn MSME fund missing in Kogi, gov orders probe

*Rivers re-run: Fear everywhere

Falconets draw Japan, Canada, Spain in U-20 Women’s World Cup

Nigeria have been drawn in Group B of the preliminary round of the 2016 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, alongside Japan, Canada and Spain.

Tenant burns landlord, 83, to death over alleged unpaid rent

Uwa Street in Benin City, capital of Edo State, on Wednesday night witnessed a tragedy when a tenant, Jeff Obasohan, reportedly set his 83-year-old landlord, Pa Joseph Iyen, ablaze, following disagreement over unpaid accumulated house rent.

NAFDAC seizes cartons of fake drinks in Edo State

In Benin, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has seized about 20 cartons of different brands of popular alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, from 12 shops at Upper Sakponba, Mission Road and vegetable market, off Airport Road.

Kogi to immortalise Ocholi

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has described the late Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. James Eneojo Ocholi, as a fearless person, whose life “was extinguished at a very young age”.

Thursday, 17 March 2016

Europa League:Man United 1-1 Liverpool (Agg 1-3)

Philippe Coutinho's moment of brilliance extinguished Manchester United's faint hopes and saw Liverpool through to the Europa League quarter-finals.

Europa League:Spurs 1-2 Dortmund (Agg 1-5)

Tottenham were left to focus fully on their Premier League title challenge as Mauricio Pochettino's side bowed of the Europa League last 16 following a 2-1 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.

Leicester Form Earns Top Stars National Call-up

Following their impressive form for their Premier League side Leicester City the duo of Danny Drinkwater and N'Golo Nkante have been called up to their countries' national teams ahead of crunch friendlies later this month.

Man arrested for stealing 4,000 pants

A taxi driver accused of stealing some 4,000 items of women’s underwear in Thailand has been publicly paraded by police, the second time in six years the alleged panty thief has been nabbed for fuelling his fetish.