All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
There could not have been a better way for Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Alhaji Hassan Lawal and Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, to experience what millions of Nigerians pass through daily than their recent trapping, for hours, in a traffic jam on the Benin-Ore Expressway.
turenchi (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
After a day of rest from the basketball courts of the ongoing FIBA Africa Champions Club for women, in Benin, the ten participating clubs resume for the next stage of the tournament with First Bank and First Deepwater, both of Nigeria, battling one other for a semi final slot at the Gymnase IRSP in Ouidah today.
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Emmanuel Gbevegnon met his wife, Eriko Hidaka, in 1995 in Niger. Eriko, a native of Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, was there to help with vaccination activities, using her experience as a nurse. Emmanuel, a native of the city of Cotonou in Benin, a country next to Niger with a population of about 9.3 million, was there on business.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OUIDAH (15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Interclube basketball club of Angola Friday played the game of their lives to go past A’Politecnica basketball club of Mozambique by 62-58 points in the second quarter-final game decided at the IRSP gymnase, Benin Republic. Both sides had started the high tempo game on a cautious note with the ...
FIBA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
OUIDAH (15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - First Bank basketball club of Nigeria Friday defeated her Nigeria rival, First Deepwater basketball by 88-48 points in the first quarter-finals of the 15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women at the ISPR gymnase, Ouidah, Benin Republic. The Elephant Girls who paraded eight Nigeria senior women ...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Political heavy weights across the nation gathered in Benin City , Edo State capital last week Thursday, at the 1st anniversary celebration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole's administration to stress the need for reforming the nation's electoral process.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Acting on a prophecy that his son was a wizard, a 32-year-old man in Benin, Mr. John Effiong, allegedly poisoned his two-year-old child.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
COTONOU (15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Losing a last minute opportunity to top group-B of the 15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women, Interclube basketball club of Angola will have her hands full when they file out against Mozambique A’Politecnica in the second quarter-final on Friday. The Angola who enjoyed some blitz in her ...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
CAPTAIN of the Nigerian team in the maiden edition of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) International Cycling Tour, Aphis Bakare is confident that he and his teammates have what it take to shine at the 324 kilometres championship which takes them from Lagos to Benin Republic, then to Togo and ends in Ghana.
turenchi (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By Gabriel Enogholase, Benin A message of congratulations has been sent to the Super Eagles striker, Mr. Osaze Odemwingie, from his kinsmen in Uhronigbe in Orhiomwon Local Government Area of Edo State over his emergence as Nigeria’s Footballer of the Year in the Africa Independent Television (AIT) organised awards.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The WHO on Tuesday announced it would lead a week-long, multi-country vaccination campaign in Africa next week to protect those "deemed at highest risk from yellow fever," Reuters reports. The vaccination drive will target nearly 12 million Africans living in Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone - all countries at high risk of yellow fever outbreaks (Nebehay/MacInnis, 11/17).
The Lazy Environmentalist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The winds of change, they are a blowing. Values are suddenly the currency of the day. Time magazine believes we have the beginnings of a Responsibility Revolution . But to establish what those responsibilities are, the values that underpin them have to be determined first. Values are the bedrock of the new world that we are creating. So what of these values? Interestingly, it is not just the talk of...
FIBA (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
COTONOU (15th FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Wild card entrant, First Bank basketball club of Nigeria Wednesday showed champion stuff with an emphatic 84-29 points pounding of Kenya Ports Authority in her last group-A game at the Palais des Sports arena, Cotonou, Benin Republic. The former champion won in all four-quarters by 22-06; 16-14; 26-01 ...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Kenya Ports Authority women's basketball team continued their dismal performance at the 15th Africa Women Club Championships when they were hammered 74-32 by Abidjan Basketball Club (ABC) from Cote d'Ivoire in their third group A match at the Palais des Sports in Benin on Tuesday.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
COTONOU (FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women) - Eight teams have made their way to the quarter-final of the FIBA Africa Champions Club for Women holding in Cotonou, Benin Republic. In group-A First Bank look set to top the group with one game left for the winner of the 2003 edition of the continent most prestigious women club competition, other teams ...
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