World Cup: Nigerians react to Super Eagles loss against Croatia

Some football fans in Abuja on Saturday expressed disappointment at the Super Eagles’ 0-2 loss to Croatia in their opening game of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Nigeria had an unimpressive start to their 2018 FIFA World Cup campaign on Saturday in Kaliningrad with a 0-2 loss to Croatia, thereby dropping to the bottom of Group D.

The result meant Croatia moved to the top of the table with three points, while Argentina and Iceland are second and third respectively after playing out a 1-1 draw earlier.

A cross section of football fans in Abuja, who spoke to NAN at a viewing centre in Maitama, said the Eagles got their tactics and formation wrong against the Croats.

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Total blackout hits Nigeria as power grid collapses

The nation has been plunged into total darkness as the power grid recorded a total collapse on Saturday morning, our correspondent has learnt.

The system collapse led to the shutdown of all the nation’s power plants.

An industry source, who is a top executive of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, told our correspondent on condition of anonymity that the national grid first collapsed on Friday.

When contacted to find out the cause of the outage in parts of Lagos, he said, “It’s a general thing; it is a system collapse. It happened yesterday and this morning. All the power plants were shut down.”



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Nigeria Team against Croatia

Best of Luck Naija!

Romance Rewind: A Look at Shakira and Gerard Piqué's Love Story

The love story of Shakira and Gerard Piqué proves that you never really know when you'll come face to face with your soulmate.

Little did they expect to fall for each other at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, but they did. They're one of our favorite couples because they make it work on their own terms. Years later, they're a family of four that has learned to balance the demanding life of music and soccer with being parents.

From that day on the set of Shakira's "Waka Waka," Piqué set out to win the Colombian singer's heart, and the rest is history.

Take a look at their love story: These two lovebirds met on the set of Shakira's "Waka Waka" which was the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Piqué later revealed that he told her, "I am going to win this World Cup so that we can see each other at the finals." And so he did and that's how it all began.

The love story of Shakira and Gerard Piqué proves that you never really know when you'll come face to face with your soulmate. 

Bauchi farmers having ‘sleepless nights’ over lack of rainfall

Farmers in Bauchi who planted crops early this farming season are having sleepless nights following a dry spell being experienced, resulting in the drying up of their tender crops.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that for the past few weeks, rain had not fallen in most parts of the state and the prospect of the farmers having to re-plant, is very high.

Some of the farmers who spoke to NAN said they spent huge resources on payment of labour, purchase of seeds and fertilizer used in planting the crops, adding that they were not financially buoyant to repeat same.

A peasant farmer, Malam Aliyu Hamman, said he spent about N30, 000 and was not in a position to source for same again.

“We rushed to plant crops to avoid a repeat of what happened last year when the rain stopped abruptly without crops maturing, making us to incur losses.

“Now, we seem to be too early and the consequence is almost same as we may have to repeat planting and incur losses again,” he lamented.

Another peasant farmer, Jarmai Dahiru, said his soya beans crops had almost dried up and he may have to re-plant.

Super Eagles uniting Nigeria into a country of football believers

Africa has five out of the 36 national teams in the 2018 football World Cup tournament in Russia: Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia.

Nobody will put serious money on any of the continent’s teams winning the World Cup finals in Moscow on Sunday, 15 July. But before a ball has been kicked, Nigeria’s Super Eagles have at least and already won one “World Cup” with their dazzling new kit.

The fashion blog The Idle Man said: “This shirt has gained huge popularity on social media with many fans rating it as the best shirt of the tournament without a single game being played in it.”

Nike Football Design Director Dan Farron said: “With Nigeria, we wanted to tap into the attitude of the nation. We started to see trends in attitude and energy connecting the athletes to music, fashion and more. They are part of a resoundingly cool culture.”

And it isn’t just the denizens of social media and fashionistas rating Nigeria’s jersey highly. Nike recorded three million pre-orders before it’s release, according to the Nigerian Football Federation. On the day of its release, people queued from 5am to make sure they don’t lose out, and all orders were sold out within minutes. That wasn’t only in Nigeria, but also in other parts of the world where there are concentrations of Nigerians.

Robbers At Theodore Ekechi's House In Owerri, Steal N45 Million Items (Photos)

The Imo state All progressive Congress, Coalition group spokesperson, Hon Theodore Ekechi, on Wednesday escaped being hurt by unknown hoodlums, who gained entrance into his house and made away with items worth 45 million naira.

Reports gathered showed that his Owerri residence located at Umuguma Housing Estate, Owerri west Local Government Area of the state, was vandalised and ransacked by the unknown men, as they made away with four (4) gold wrist watches, 20 HP laptops, archive official documents, jewelries, among other things.

Narrating the ordeal to newsmen, Ekechi, said that such incident has never occurred before in his neighborhood, according to him " This has never happened since 2011 when I started living in this neighborhood, we have never had any incident of burglary". He asserted

And he continued, "I'm been worried about the timing of this, considering the fact that I have been vocal about the happenings in Imo state politically, as it concerns who becomes the governor of the state come 2019.

University of Ibadan suspends student over article about poor facilities

The University of Ibadan has suspended a student, Adekunle Adebajo, over an article published two years ago.

Mr Adebajo, a student journalist, wrote under the title “UI: The irony of fashionable rooftops and awful interiors”, in The Guardian of April 2016 about poor facilities at the university.

He drew attention to the deplorable state of the facilities at the Nigerian premier university.

Piqued by the article, the university, two days after the publication, asked Mr Adebajo to face the disciplinary committee.

In the following months, the student continued to face disciplinary charges which he always defended before he was eventually told he had been rusticated for two semesters at the end of May.

But it was on Friday that the rustication of Mr Adebajo became public, with his colleagues within and outside UI accusing the university authorities of being anti-free speech and oppressive.

“It is true, I was rusticated by University of Ibadan for an article written in 2016,” said Mr Adebajo on Facebook. “The verdict was made three weeks ago.”

SAD! Leukemia: 24-Year-Old Lawyer Buried Few Months After Her Wedding (Photos)

The remains of Barr. Mrs Onyinye Ukpor has been laid to rest.

How cruel that leukaemia(cancer of the blood) at the age of 24 could snatch you away from your beloved husband in a marriage that is barely 9months old.

Pained is the word as Alumni of OJIMS COLLEGE observed the burial of an ex student late Barr. Onyinye Ukpor Julius whose husband Mr  Julius Chinedu Onyekwere is also an alumnus of Ojims College.

BREAKING: A scuffle in the Spanish dressing room

BeIN: there was a scuffle in the Spanish dressing room occured after #PORESP involving Diego Costa, who is claimed to have been upset with boss Fernando Hierro for substituting him off. The Atleti forward is reported to have confronted Hierro with, "You don't know what you're doing."

Brian Gitta, age 24 wins UK's Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize

Congrats Uganda's Brian Gitta, age 24 wins UK's Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for inventing a malaria detector that finds malaria virus by shining a red light on your finger, sending results to your mobile phone in 60 seconds.

Congratulations!

Gernot Rohr: Super Eagles will deliver as expected

Super Eagles’ head coach Gernot Rohr and captain Mikel Obi say the team is capable of delivering on its promise on Saturday against Vatreni of Croatia.

The Nigerian side will face Croatia at the Kaliningrad Stadium in their opening Group D match at the FIFA World Cup, needing to win for a bright start.

This will be against the backdrop of disappointing opening match losses by fellow African sides Egypt and Morocco on Friday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Egypt had lost their opening Group A match at Ekaterinburg 0-1 to Uruguay, after an 89th minute goal by Jose Gimenez.

Morocco followed in their trail hours later with a 0-1 loss to Iran at St. Petersburg in Group B, falling to an own goal in added time by Aziz Bouhaddouz.

Rohr, who earlier in the day had addressed the media before the team’s training session, said he was sure that his team was in shape to get a good result.