Year: 2010
Lagos Recruits 100 For Social Welfare Development
The Lagos State Government has recruited the services of 100 youths across the state in social welfare development. Speaking at…
WAEC: Commissioner Laments Students’ Poor Performance
Lagos State Commissioner for Housing, Mr. Dele Onabokun, has decried the poor performance of students in Mathematics and English Language…
Board Issues Deadline On Pilgrimage
The Lagos State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board has issued tomorrow deadline to all intending pilgrims to Jerusalem and Rome for…
PDP Faults Fashola Over Increase In BRT Fares
The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has condemned the AC-led government of Lagos State over the…
PDP Youth Group Decamps To ACN
Members of Youth Coalition, a political youth group of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have decamped…
Communities Petition LASG Over Neglect
Inhabitants of Ijeododo and Ijagemo communities in Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, South West Nigeria, have drawn…
Importance Of Town Hall Meetings Stressed
Former Chairman of Federal Housing Authority, Mr. Fortune Ebie, has charged Delta State Government to institutionalise town hall meetings to…
Bank Trains 50 Fish Farmers
The Standard Micro Finanance Bank Ltd., Yola branch, is training 50 fish farmers in Adamawa as part of efforts to…
7 Disabled Aspire For Councillorship, State Assembly
No fewer than nine persons living with disabilities are aspiring for various elective positions in the forthcoming 2011 elections in…
Women Get 6,000 Treated Nets In Delta
A member of the Delta State House of Assembly, Mrs. Omawumi Udoh, says women in her constituency have received 6,000…
Nigeria, Britain To Strengthen Partnership
Nigeria and Britain are set to strengthen their partnership on migration, Ambassador Martin Uhomoibhi, the Permanent Secretary in the Foreign…
Man, 47 Defiles Girl, 4
The police have arrested a man, Mr. Adewale Ibrahim Sanusi, 47, for allegedly defiling a four-year old girl (name withheld).…
Institute To Help Learner Drivers
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Lagos State Drivers’ Institute, Mr. Ayodeji Oyedokun says that though the school…
Butchers New Exco Takes Over
A new executive council of the Lagos State Butchers Association has been inaugurated. The new executives emerged after an election…
NAPED Disburses N72m
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) says it has disbursed a total of N72 million to support 500 poor families…
Federation To Organise Armed Forces Tourney
Karate Federation of Nigeria, KFN, has concluded plans to organise Military/Paramilitary Karate Club Championship, scheduled for 6 and 10 October…
Abuja 2010 ECOWAS Games: Nigeria’s Under 23 Handball Teams Ready
As the maiden edition of ECOWAS U-23 Games begin 2 September in Abuja, Nigerian handball teams are battle ready to…
Applause For Adopt-A-Talent
Renowned Nigerian boxing coach, Joe Mensah, has commended the Lagos State Government led by Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola on its…
Sexual Harassment Of Ghana Athletes: Coach Calls For ProbeOf
Former Chief Athletics Coach of the National Sports Council (NSC), Dr. Emmanuel Owusu-Ansah, has urged the Ministries of Education, Youth…
Battle For Tickets Hots-Up, As Pillars, Kada, Hoppers Qualify For Final Eight
With just two matches to go, the defending champions Pillars Basketball Club of Kano and Kada Stars Basketball Club of…
I’ll Do More For Nigerian Kids
Olumide Oyedeji, who has played in the National Basketball Association, NBA, Asia; precisely China and South Korea, is now back…
Uphill Task For African Teams
As the ongoing FIBA World Championship in Turkey enters day three today, African representatives at the biggest basketball championship, Tunisia,…
New INEC And The Little Signal From Bauchi
Space scientists who discover planets and extraterrestrial bodies capable of destroying the earth do not wait until they see them…
The Humiliation Of A Governor
The fanfare that heralded the visit of First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, last…
Lagos Lawmaker Launches NGO
The legislator representing Ikorodu Constituency 1 in the Lagos State House of Assembly and Chairman, House Committee on Commerce and…
Beer-Drinking Women May Be Courting Psoriasis
Women susceptible to the skin syndrome psoriasis may want to put down the stout and reach for a light beer.…
Football, Headlines, Sports, World News
CAF Champions League: Heartland Pip Ismaily 2-1
After weeks of waiting, the Owerri fans finally got something to cheer this evening when their darling club, Heartland beat…
New ChairmanSworn-in for Okirika
Following the controversial resignation of Mr Tamunokuro George-Obah,due to the disagreement between Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and Mrs.…
Kidnappers Release Wife of Former Council Boss…Husband Refuse To Disclose Amount Of Ransom Paid
Mrs, Soye Aroloye Brown, wife of the former Chairman of Asari-Toru Local Government Council of Rivers State, located along Aker…
Body of Soboma, Ex-militant Leader Found…Body Identified by Family Members, Undergoes Utopsy
The Body of Soboma George Senior Commander in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta,MEND, the ex-militant leader…