Year: 2010
Powerlifting World Tourney: Association Seeks For Sponsors
Secretary General of Professional Powerlifting Association, Sangode Oladipupo, says Nigerian powerlifters may not perform well in the forthcoming World Men…
West Africa Corporate Games: Organisers Unveil Plans For Event
In an effort to facilitate synergy among corporate bodies and their employees in the country, the organisers of the West…
Lagos Tertiary Games: AOCOED Hosts Athletes
The management of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, AOCOED has hosted its victorious athletes at the recently concluded Lagos Inter…
Kano Pillars Attack Referee, As Enyimba Lift Super 4 Crown
Kano Pillars breached one of the rules governing the Nigeria Premier League when their officials and players attacked the referees…
Lagos Plans Another Eyo Festival
Another Eyo Festival, the signature cultural festivity of Lagos, is imminent as Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has reconvened the planning…
Crisis Mars NPL Congress
The 5th Annual Congress of the Nigeria Premier League, NPL held weekend at the Gateway Stadium,Ijebu-Ode was marred by the…
AC Urges SEC To Wade Into AP Plc Crisis
The Action Congress (AC) has asked the relevant regulatory authorities, especially the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), to act urgently…
Lagos United End As Whipping Team, As SuperSport Academy Lift Cup
The reality of grooming football talents from the grassroots, stared Nigeria at the face yesterday when Lagos United finished the…
Coach Salutes Nigerian Girls Despite Title Loss To Egypt
Although, the Nigerian U-18 Basketball team lost the final of 2010 FIBA-Africa junior tournament by a narrow margin of 62-63…
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NPL Super 4: Pillars Lose In Thrilling Match To Sunshine
Despite playing their Nigeria Premier League, NPL Super 4 second match with a man down, Sunshine Stars of Akure yesterday…
Enyimba Set For Super 4 Crown
Enyimba International of Aba are in pole position to lift this year’s Nigeria Premier League, NPL Super 4 tournament holding…
Nigerian Police Kill Three Protesters
KANO, Nigeria — The police in Kano have killed three persons as a mob threatened to burn down a police…
Aero Contractors To Blacklist Unruly Passengers
Following its controversial and non-passenger friendly measures which lead to frequent altercations between the staff and dissatisfied passengers, Aero Contractors…
Court Stops Archbishop’s Installation
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State, South West Nigeria, has stopped the installation of Archbishop Stanley Nyekpeye as…
Lagos AC Welcomes Members to AC Convention, Warns Aspirants
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress welcomes its members from all over the country to its National Convention…
Ogun NURTW Protests Against Caretaker Committee
At least 200Â placard-carrying members of the National Union of Transport Workers, NURTW, Ijebu Ode branch, this morning marched through…
Robbers Seize Lagos-Benin Expressway
A gang of armed robbers seized the Lagos-Benin Expressway this morning at the old toll gate in Sagamu near the…
Gang Storms Church, Robs Worshippers
Police at Orile Iganmu Police Station, Lagos State, South West Nigeria, have arrested one Chukwu Emeka who resides at 8,…
More Nigerian Girls Go For White Men
The pervasive poverty in Nigeria has resulted in the rush for white men by Nigerian girls and this is fast…
Gov Amaechi Vows To Demolish Waterfront
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has vowed to go ahead with government’s plan to demolish the waterfront in Port…
Nigerian Bag Shuts Down American Airport
A baggage area at one of BWI Thurgood Marshal Airport’s lower level terminals was closed for more than two hours…
JIMOH IBRAHIM: I’m Bigger Than Richard Branson
Chairman of Air Nigeria, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, has boasted that he is more influential in all ramifications than British business…
50 Lecturers Quit Over Pay
Fifty lecturers have resigned from Yobe College of Education, Gashua, over the non-payment of the Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure…
Kidnapped Boy Rescued After 2 Weeks
It was an unbridled joy for the families of Alhaji Bashiru Usman and his wife Hajiya Aminat Usman both indigenes…
Fleeing Robbers Abandon Car
Robbers who attacked residents of 20, Okuneye Street, Mende, Maryland, Lagos, South West Nigeria recently, were forced to abandon the…
2 Nabbed Over Attack On Eatry
The police at Ilupeju Police Station, Lagos, have arested two robbery suspects who attacked and robbed Sweet Sensation eatery along…
Oyo NURTW Tussle: Tokyo Calls for IGP’s Intervention
The sacked Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in Oyo State, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, who was recently…
Ondo CNPP Decries Jega’s Defence Of Adebayo
The Ondo State chapter of Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has expressed its dismay at the statement made by…
Gov’s Aide Warns Council Bosses
The Special Adviser to the Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam, on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Solomon Wombo, has warned…