Year: 2010
Yaba Residents Protest PHCN’s Poor Power Supply
Following epileptic power supply to their community, the residents of Southern Little Road, Sawyer, part of Herbert Macaulay and Akintoye…
N50 Million Scam: Court Frees Wabara, Osuji, Abdulazeez
The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Tuesday freed former Senate President, Adolphus Wabara, former Minister of Education, Prof. Fabian…
750 Fake Driver’s Licenses Impounded
About 750 fake driver’s licenses and other traffic documents by motorists have been impounded by the Ayobo zone of the…
Oyinlola’s Victory, A Daylight Robbery — Bisi Yusuf
The 28 May, 2010 judgement by the Osun state Governorship Election Petition Tribunal upholding the election of Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola…
OPC Urges FG To Declare June 12 Public Holiday
The Odu’a Peoples Congress (OPC) has urged the Federal Government to declare June 12 of every year a public holiday…
VC Raises Alarm Over Threat To Life
Vice-Chancellor of the Crescent University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, Prof. Sheriffdeen Tella has raised an alarm over threat to his…
Lagos Councils Are Doing Well, Says Agunsoye
Prince Rotimi Agunsoye, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Lagos State, Nigeria, has revealed that the performance of…
Kwara LG Election Holds In October
The Kwara State Independent Electoral Commission (KWSIEC), has slated elections into the 16 local government councils of the state for…
Don’t Reinstate Impeached LG Chair, Lagos Lawmakers Warned
Members of the Lagos House of Assembly have been told not to reinstate the impeached chairman of Lekki Local Council…
Our Democracy Will Endure, Mainland LG Boss Assures
Chairman of Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State, Nigeria, Mr. Rufus Oladele Adekanye, has given assurance that the country’s…
Why I Parted Ways With Odunmbaku
A first term member of the House of Representatives, Abuja, Nigeria, Mr. Adebayo Odulana, a.k.a. Niganga has been locked in…
PSP Operators Must Justify Their Pay
Ola Oresanya, the Managing Director of Lagos Waste Management Authority(LAWMA), spoke with PAUL SANUSI on the challenges facing the agency…
Eleven Years Of Democracy: Lagos Joins The Human Race
There were great expectations in 1999 as Nigerians ushered in the Third Republic in our repeated attempts to join the…
Upsets At CBN Open, As Seeded Olawepo, Aba Crash Out
The ongoing 32nd Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN Senior Tennis Open Championship is living up to its billing as the…
Growing Concerns Over Use Of Tobacco Among Youths
The use of tobacco by youths in Nigeria has continued to elicit concerns from well meaning citizens of this country.…
Adeboye Bans Mini-Skirt, Trousers In Church
Pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria have started enforcing the dress code for all worshipers handed…
Nigerian Priest Receives Highest Honour In Italy
A Nigerian-born Catholic priest from Imo State, South East Nigeria, has been awarded one of the highest honours in Italy…
LAGOS: Flood Traps Ayobo-Ipaja Residents
Thousands of residents of Bada, Balogun and Ishefun areas of Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos, Nigeria, were this…
Eagles Escape Air Crash, As South Africa-Bound Plane Develops Fault
Soccer loving Nigerians went to bed last night in trepidation over the shocking news that the Super Eagles narrowly escaped…
ABIOLA: Sagay, Bakare, Others Slam IBB
Several human rights activists, lawyers and others in Nigeria have slammed former Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, for calling…
Fire Razes Christ EmbassyEmbassy
A late evening fire razed the zonal headquarters of the Christ Embassy church in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, on Monday.…
Gas Victims DischargedDischarged
Victims of the Saturday 29 May, Kaduna poisonous gas explosion have all been discharged from the various hospitals ,where they…
Councilor Dies In AutocrashDies
Mr Mark Ukpor, the councillor representing Okuku Ward in Yala Local Government Area in Cross River State, Nigeria, has died…
Rousing Welcome For Adebayor
Manchester City of England’s Emmanuel Adebayor received a rousing welcome from Lagosians early today when he arrived at the Murtala…
West Ham, Hannover To Clash In LagosHannover
English Premier League side, West Ham United Football Club and Bundesliga of Germany club, Hannover 96 will storm Lagos for…
MFM Win Boska CupBoska
The football team of Mountain of Fire Ministry, MFM, Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria weekend emerged champions of the 2010 Boska Cup…
Lagos Assembly To Continue Deliberations In Yoruba Language
The Lagos State House of Assembly has given the assurance that it will continue to carry out its deliberations on…
Supporters Cart Away Legislator’s Empowerment Items
A federal lawmaker’s effort to empower people in his constituency turned awry when supporters carted away items meant to be…
Scholars Identify Bane Of Democracy
A former Minister of Education, Prof. Babs Fafunwa, and some other scholars said elimination of corruption among public office holders…
Clerk Bolts Away With Security Coy’s Money
Detectives at the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria have arrested a female clerk for allegedly stealing N1.3 million belonging…