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...will watch the World Cup from around the globe, football is also more than a mere game. After all, a football team is a vessel for a nation's habits and aspirations, psychoses and strengths, triumphs and disappointments. Brazil's beautiful game. France's Les Bleus. Italy's Azurri. Nigeria's Super Eagles. They are more than teams. They are 11-man embodiments of national pride and passion. And yet the World Cup may be the only medium where national pride can be flagrantly, vividly manifest without diplomats being recalled and troops mobilized. The Cup will provide a joyous month...
...Hernan Crespo and Claudio Lopez. Juan Sebastian Veron is capable of finding them anywhere on the pitch, and behind him is formidable Romanista Walter "the Wall" Samuel. Argentina easily won its qualifying group in South America, but now finds itself in the so-called Group of Death with England, Nigeria and Sweden. As Argentina boasts some of football's most ruthless butchers, it is well armed for the fight...
...What ever happened to Africa? Weren't African teams set to challenge for supremacy after their breakout performances in 1990 and 1994? Nigeria showed a whiff of promise in dismissing Spain in 1998 but stumbled in the second round. This year the Nigerians are in worse shape. The team was torn by internal dissent that plagued their African Nations Cup performance. And, in a country that seems to suffer one political or social trauma after another, last week the team had to cope with the death of Sports Minister Ishaya Mark Aku in a plane crash. Despite the likes...
Swiss banks will be ordered to return $535 million of embezzled money to Nigeria. The money was stashed in Switzerland by the African state's former military ruler, General Sani Abacha. The Nigerian government has agreed to drop criminal proceedings against the family of the late dictator and allow them to retain $100 million of the estimated $3 billion that Abacha was alleged to have looted during his five-year rule. Nigeria will eventually recover more than $1 billion from banks around the world...
...NIGERIA Code of Conduct African leaders sought to bolster international investment on the continent by implementing a peer-review system to monitor economic reform and good governance. Meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, representatives of 19 countries agreed on eight draft codes of conduct to be monitored by an independent African body. The aim is to ensure Africa keeps its side of the deal to attract some $64 billion a year under a proposed "Marshall Plan" for Africa, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD...