Month: October 2010
President Jonathan Appoints New National Security Adviser
President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed retired General Andrew Owoeye Azazi as the new National Security Adviser, NSA. This was contained…
Ladoja, Others Open Parallel PDP Secretariat
Erstwhile Governor of Oyo State, Rasheed Adewolu Ladoja; Majority Leader in the Senate, Senator Teslim Folarin, Senator Lekan Balogun, Elder Wole…
Football, Headlines, Sports, World News
FIFA Bans Nigeria, As Eagles’ Nations Cup Qualifiers Hit The Rocks
Soccer loving Nigerians received an unlikely 50th independence anniversary gift from the Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, this evening…
Fourth Film Festival Holds In Ondo
The fourth Festival of Indigenous African Language Film held this morning at the Owena International Hotel, Akure, Ondo State, South-West…
9 Suspects Arrested Over Abuja Bomb Blasts
Nine people suspected to be linked to last week’s independence day bomb blasts in, Abuja, Nigeria have been arrested, an…
Ward Delination Constitutional – LASIEC
Justice Afolabi Adbul-Fatai Adeyinka (Retd), Chairman, Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), has said that the body has the constitutional…
Nigeria At 50: Fashola Tasks Citizens
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has challenged Nigerians to focus on the years ahead rather than brood over what…
Sambo Visits Bomb Blast Victims In Hospital
Vice-President Namadi Sambo has described the Friday bomb blast that killed many people in Abuja as “a wicked act of…
Naira Rain For Zain Promo Winners
One of the leading mobile operators, Zain Nigeria, yesterday in Lagos splashed millions of naira on many winners in the…
Eguavoen Expects Full Camp ‘Morrow
Baring any unforeseen circumstance, Super Eagles’ stand-in coach, Austin Eguavoen expects a full house at the Abuja camp of the…
Forgotten So Soon
Just a year after the demise of former national goalkeeper, Anthony Best Ogedegbe, Nigerians appear to have forgotten the late…
Attah, Eagles’ Coordinator Fired
Super Eagles Team Coordinator, Emmanuel Attah, has been fired. Attah, FA chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, is one of…
Milo Schools Tourney’ll Be Better Organised
Olabisi Joseph, the Secretary General of Nigeria School Sports Federation, (NSSF) told WALE JOSEPH that fans should expect a lot…
IBB: Bad Product, Bad Salesman
The greatest salesman is not the “expert†who sells a good and high quality product to his clientele but he…
Kidnappers Getting Bolder
Over the last few years, the media had reported and warned over this scourge overrunning the entire nation but little…
Fashola, Ribadu To Speak At Launch Of Nigeria At 50: The Nation In Narration
The Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, is expected to speak on Saturday, 9Â October at the public presentation…
Akunyili Presents Books
All is set for the Public Presentation of two books written by the Honourable Minister of Information and Communications, Prof.…
ASUU Strike Paralyses LASU
Academic activities have been paralysed at the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, Lagos State as the strike embarked upon by…
Man Sent To Prison For Killing Lover
A 46-year old clearing and forwarding agent, Emmanuel Adun, an Edo State indigene, has been arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s…
Counterfeit Naira Printed In Australia During Soludo’s CBN Era
The police in Australia have been told how the Nigerian currency notes, the naira, were printed illegally by a firm…
Landlord Offers 28 Tenants Free Rent, To Mark Nigeria’s 50th Anniversary
A 74-year old landlord in Ifako-Ijaye area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria, has given his 28 tenants one month…
2011: NDLEA Moves Against Politicians
Politicians in the country who intend to use money from illicit drug trade to actualise their ambition in the 2011…
Lagos, UNICEF Partner On Street Urchins
The Lagos State government is making frantic efforts to rid the state of street urchins and children who roam the…
INEC Stalls Aregbesola’s Appeal
The case instituted by Rauf Aregbesola, the 2007 governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, against the People’s…
Ex-Yaba LG Staff, Others Docked For Forgery
A former staff of Yaba Local Council Development Area, Adekunle Yaba, Lagos State, Taiwo Lambo, 56, and two others who…
146 Area Boys Arrested In Lagos
The Lagos State Task Force on Environment and other Related Offences has announced the arrest of 146 miscreants popularly called…
Yaba Artisans Protest Demolition Of Workshops
Artisans under the aegis of Lagos State Mechanics and Technicians Association in Yaba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State,…
Group Condemns NANS
The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), has condemned the parochial and self-serving political activities of some National Association of Nigeria Students…
4 PDP Men Seeks Guber Ticket In Yobe
The Chairman of the PDP in Yobe, Alhaji Abbagana Tata, says four aspirants have so far purchased forms to contest…
Be Your Brothers Keepers, Lions Club Urges Privileged Nigerians
The wealthy and the privileged have been enjoined to assist the Lions Club International, more importantly, the Lagos Model Lions,…