Posts Tagged ‘ Nigerian ’

Defending champs held at home in Vietnam Super League 

January 18, 2012
Defending champs held at home in Vietnam Super League 

Song Lam Nghe An players (yellow) mark Nigerian striker Samson Kayode Olaleye of visitors Hanoi T&T in a Super League match in Vinh city Sunday. Defending Vietnamese Super League champions Song Lam Nghe An were held 2-2 at home by Hanoi T&T in the third round Sunday. Both teams played fast football from the start, [...]

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Nigerian national goalie to play for Vietnam club 

October 21, 2011
Nigerian national goalie to play for Vietnam club 

Nigerian goalkeeper Bassey Akpan has signed a two-year contract with V-League side Hoang Anh Gia Lai. Nigeria’s national football team goalkeeper Bassey Akpan on Thursday signed a one-year contract with V-League side Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL). Bassey Akpan, who is 27 years old and stands 1.86 meters tall, won the Under-17 African Football Championship [...]

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Hanoi club demands $2 mln from Atletico Madrid's new signing 

September 4, 2011
Hanoi club demands $2 mln from Atletico Madrid's new signing 

  Though he is offically with Spain’s top-tier club Atlectico Madrid now, Nigerian striker Samson Kayode Olaleye must pay the Vietnamese football club Hanoi T&T at least US$2 million if he wants to play in Europe. Olaleye is in trouble because he received a large amount of cash from Hanoi T&T and signed a memorandum [...]

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Nigeria, Shell under fire after UN details oil devastation 

August 6, 2011
Nigeria, Shell under fire after UN details oil devastation 

A picture taken in 2010 shows a man walking near the spilled crude oil on the shores and in the waters of the Niger Delta swamps of Bodo, a village in the famous Nigerian oil-producing Ogoniland. Nigeria’s government and oil giant Shell Friday came under heavy pressure following the release of a landmark UN report [...]

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Nigerian gets death for drug trafficking 

April 25, 2011
Nigerian gets death for drug trafficking 

Nigerian Nnaji David Ete, 33, gets death sentence Friday for trafficking drugs from Vietnam to China. A court in Ho Chi Minh City Friday sentenced Nigerian Nnaji David Ete death for trafficking more than 11 kilograms of heroin from Vietnam to China.   The HCMC People’s Court also sentenced Ete’s Vietnamese wife, 31-year-old Phan Thi [...]

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Nigerian gets death for heroin smuggling 

March 25, 2011

  The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced a Nigerian man to death and his Vietnamese wife to life imprisonment, on Tuesday (March 22), for transporting heroin from Cambodia to Vietnam. According to the indictment, Michael Ikenna Nduanya, 34, and his 27-year-old wife Nguyen Thi Hai Anh (of the Central Highlands province of Dak [...]

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Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks

January 1, 2010
Obama summons intel chiefs for security talks

U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington December 14, 2009 President Barack Obama on Thursday summoned U.S. intelligence chiefs to a meeting next week at the White House to discuss how to prevent a repeat of the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner on December 25. Seeking to quell criticism of his administration over an intelligence [...]

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Alert cleared after Nigerian reported disruptive on Delta/Northwest Flight

December 29, 2009
Alert cleared after Nigerian reported disruptive on Delta/Northwest Flight

Alert was cleared after a passenger onboard the Delta/Northwest Airlines Flight 253, where a Nigerian attempted to set off an explosive device on the Christmas Day. TV grab shows the Delta/Northwest Airlines Flight 253, where a Nigerian attempted to set off an explosive device on the Christmas Day, sits on the tarmac at the Detroit [...]

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Nigerians arrested for drug smuggling

December 24, 2009
Nigerians arrested for drug smuggling

Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, Michael Ikenna Nduanya, Agu Kingsley, Vuong Dara in police custody. LookAtVietnam – The police have arrested three people, including two Nigerian men, for transnational drug trafficking in Ho Chi Minh City. The ministry’s Drug Criminals Investigation Agency (C17) and Binh Thanh District Police in HCMC caught Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, 26, [...]

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Nigerians arrested for drug smuggling

December 22, 2009
Nigerians arrested for drug smuggling

Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, Michael Ikenna Nduanya, Agu Kingsley, Vuong Dara in police custody. The Ministry of Public Security said Wednesday that police had arrested three people, including two Nigerian men, for transnational drug trafficking in Ho Chi Minh City this week. The ministry’s Drug Criminals Investigation Agency (C17) and Binh Thanh District Police in [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...