Month: October 2010
Don Blames Mass Failure In Exams On UPE
Dr Abba Abubakar, a lecturer in the department of Adult Education, Bayero University, Kano, has attributed the mass failure of…
Lagos Community Protests Neglect
Residents of Town Hall Street in Ifelodun Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria, have protested what…
Eagles Step Up Taining, Despite FIFA Ban
Nigeria’s senior football team, the Super Eagles continued their preparation in Abuja for weekend’s Nations Cup qualifier against Guinea, defying…
Team Nigeria Grab 3rd Medal
As Nigerian football battles to extricate itself from the crisis that led to a suspension from international football by FIFA…
Dopemu Residents Plead For Better Roads
Now that the rains are going, resident of Dopemu, in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria have…
Abuja Blasts: Bombers Are Cowards —NLC
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned the bomb explosions that rocked Abuja on 1 October while the nation celebrated…
Beware Of Cholera, Baale Warns Residents
The Baale-elect of Ijagemo in Iba Local Council Area LCDA of Lagos State, Chief Abdul Hakeem Babatunde Balogun, has warned…
Man, 25, Hangs Self
The body of a construction worker, Adeboye Idris Bamidele, 25, was on Sunday, found dangling from the ceiling fan inside…
Security Guard, 2 Others Charged With Theft
A security guard, Abdulazeez Embugushiki, 24, and two others Suleimon Isah, 27, Abu Sanni, 26 have been charged with theft…
Hotel Attendant Arrested For Stealing
A hotel attendant, Sunday Efifeneme, 34, has been arrested by the police at Ikotun Division, Lagos, southwest Nigeria for allegedly…
Akwa Ibom Vasity Gets NUC’s Nod
The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday granted licence of operation to the Akwa Ibom State University of Science and…
Eagles Bemoan FIFA Ban
The news that Nigeria has been banned by FIFA was received by the Super Eagles players preparing for this weekend’s…
Govt Tasked Over Ayobo-Ipaja Road
The newly installed Baale of Candos/Asipa town in Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Chief Moroof Aremu Owonla,…
Nigeria Won’t Be Disgraced
Chief Coach of Nigeria’s boxing team at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in India, America-based Idika Nsofor, before departing for the…
Ogun Council Chief Praised
The people of Odan Agbara in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, South West Nigeria, have scored the chairman,…
The Police And Us
One day in 1959, on the eve of Nigeria’s independence, I stood by the road at Eruwa in today’s Oyo…
Sustaining Tight Security At Nigerian Airports
The manner security operatives always put up a show at Nigeria’s airports immediately after any security breach in the country…
Bariga LCDA Chief Condemns Attacks
Chairman of Bariga Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria, Akeem Omoyele Sulaimon, has called on the…
Dokpesi Is Being Punished for Supporting Zoning -IBB Campaign Organisation
IBB 2011 Campaign Organisation has alleged that Chief Raymond Dokpesi, its director general who was briefly detained by the State…
IBB, Atiku, Gusau, Saraki Accused Jonathan of Intimidation; Ask For Investigation of Henry Okah Claims on Bomb Blasts
The presidential campaign organizations of Generals Ibrahim Babangida, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, General Aliyu Gusau and Governor Abubakar Bukola Saraki have…
Bomb Blasts: Henry Okah Claims on Al-Jazeera is Ouright lie -Presidency
The presidency has described as “diversionary” and “outright lie” claims by Henry Okah, the leader of Movement for the Emancipation…
MEND Leader, Okah Tackles Jonathan Over Bomb Blasts
The former leader of Nigeria’s armed group has said he was arrested because he refused to tell the group to…
Lufthansa, Turkish Airlines Planes Collide In Ghana
A Turkish Airlines plane taxied into a Deutsche Lufthansa AG jet standing on the tarmac on Tuesday at the main…
Dokpesi Regains Freedom, Cancels Press Conference
Raymond Dokpesi, the director general of the presidential campaign organisation of former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida, has been released. He…
Don’t Politicise Bomb Blasts Investigations —Jonathan Group
The Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation has called for dispassionate investigations of the October 1 bomb blasts which led to the…
AFTERMATH OF BOMB BLASTS: Security Beefed Up At Lagos Airport
Following the bomb blasts that killed 12 persons and injured dozens in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, last Friday while the country…
N824m Debt: Ex-Deputy Gov’s Son Loses Bid To Stop Arrest
The son of former Deputy Governor of old Ondo State, Mr. Akinwole Omoboriowo, and Kojo Annan, and son of former…
I Beg My Husband For Sex —Housewife
A petty trader, Mrs. Kate Ude, has narrated to an Ojo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court, Ojo, Lagos, how she begs,…
5,000 Ex-Militants Rehabilitated
Nigeria has rehabilitated more than 5,000 former militants from the oil-rich Niger Delta who embraced a government amnesty last year,…
Recruitment Will Be Transparent —NDLEA
The process of recruitment by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, will be transparent and only those who qualify…