Year: 2010
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,…
LG Boss Lauds Teachers
Hon. Wasiu Eshinlokun, Chairman, Lagos Island Local Government, Lagos State, South West Nigeria, has commended teachers in public schools in…
Artisans Plead With PHCN
Artisans in Delta have called on the Federal Government to urgently tackle the worsening power problem in the country to…
Ayodele Slams Bad Leaders
Founder of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Babatunde Ayodele (JP) has lashed out at the past Nigerian leaders as…
Abuja Bomb Blasts: Police Name Two Suspects
The Nigeria Police have identified two men who it described as the brain behind the deadly independence day bomb blasts.…
Bomb Blasts: Jonathan Fingers Terrorist Group
President Jonathan has hinted that the perpetrators of the independence day bomb blasts are members of a small terrorist group…
MEND Not Responsible For Bomb Blasts -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has absolved the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND of complicity in the bomb blasts…
President Jonathan Commiserates With Abuja Bomb Blast Victims
All photos by Femi Ipaye, TheNEWS/Abuja
Unveil Perpetrators of Bomb Blasts -Goodluck/ Sambo Campaign Organisation Tasks Security Agencies
The campaign organization of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Goodluck/ Sambo Campaign Organisation has called on security agencies to do anything possible…
Bomb Blasts A Wicked And Dastardly Act -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has described the bomb explosions which rocked Abuja this morning as a “wicked and dastardly act” and…
Nigerians Kids Freed By Abductors
The 15 school kids abducted in Aba, the commercial town of Nigeria’s Abia State have been freed. Assistant Police Superintendent,…
Confusion Over Number of Casualties in Nigeria Bomb Blasts
Confusion persists over the number of casualty in three bomb explosions which rocked Abuja, Nigeria’s capital and nearly marred the…
Togetherness Is Nigeria’s Greatest Achievement At 50, President Declares
BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS OF UNITY AND PROGRESS: BEING AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN ON THE OCCASION OF THE…
Gov Orji Gives Oct. 7 Deadline To Kidnappers
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State in a state broadcast yesterday night gave up to 7 October as deadline to…
Jonathan Sends Soldiers To Aba, Traders Call For Emergency
President Goodluck Jonathan has deployed soldiers to Aba, the Abia State capital, South East Nigeria as the state slides into…
Cameroon Blacklists T. B. Joshua
The Cameroonian government has blacklisted Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, saying that he is…
‘Pastor Chris, A Worthy Role Model’
Barrister Efiok Cobham, the Cross River State deputy governor has described the President of Believers’ Loveworld, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome as…
Nigerian Wins $500k Science Award
A Nigerian biophysicist, Dr. John O. Dabiri, is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious MacArthur Genius Awards. He…