Month: March 2011
Gbenga Daniel Canvasses Support For PPN Candidates
Governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, today publicly identified with his new party in Abeokuta as he was presented …
Police Detain PDP, INEC Staff Caught Tampering With INEC Materials
Oyo State Police Command has transferred the Head of Information Technology of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mr. Osunlola…
ACN Wants INEC To Speak On Voter Register Fraud
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has asked INEC to explain to Nigerians what transpired in Ibadan, when some people…
Tension in Jos over Buhari’s rally
Police fired gunshots and tear gas on Monday to disperse a tense crowd that gathered near the site of CPC…
Stop Using My Name For Campaign —Soyinka
In a terse e-mail to all the media houses this morning, Prof. Wole Soyinka called the attention of the public…
Jimoh Ibrahim ‘s Mother Kidnapped
Madam Omofemiwa Ramat Ibrahim, mother of a front-line businessman and publisher of National Mirror newspaper, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, has been…
Okereke-Onyiuke Gets Judgment 4 April
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this morning adjourned till 4 April the judgment in the case…
Stop The Violence
The usual violence before, during and after the nation’s elections has again reared its ugly head. Politicians have been arming…
Jonathan’s Chances Slim, Says El-Rufai
As the 2011 general elections draw near, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, says the Peoples…
3 Chinese In Court For Vandalising Oil Pipeline
Three Chinese nationals, Guan Ping Mang, Tony Yang and Lu Yandi alleged to have illegally tampered with oil pipelines were…
UK Jails Nigerian Female Pastor
A Nigerian female pastor, Lucy Adeniji has been jailed for 11 and a half years by a count in the…
Gaddafi: Allied Forces In Air, Ground Assault
Allied forces have launched a second night of strikes on Libya, destroying a building inside the embattled leader’s compound and…
Entertainment, Headlines, News
Actor, Alasari Dies In Auto Crash
The Yoruba movie industry has been thrown into mourning following the death of a top actor and producer Ahmed Durojaiye…
NDLEA Bursts Brazil’s Drug Gang
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has aborted a plan by a major drug trafficking gang to import 6.4kg…
Threat To Tinubu’s Life Real, Says ACN
The Lagos State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has warned that the continued threat on the life…
I Would Have Been First Class Carpenter —TASUED Best Graduating Student
“It has not been easy, considering all what I went through. I burnt midnight candle, starved myself when there was…
O’odua Group Warns MEND To Keep Off Lagos
A Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural and political organisation, Coalition for Oodua Self Determination Groups, COSEG, has warned the Movement for the Emancipation…
Why I Want My Mandate Back –Agagu
More than two years after he was thrown out of office by the Court of Appeal, Benin City, Edo State,…
Half A Million Transporters March For Fashola
The entire Lagos Island was agog at the weekend as over 500,000 transport operators staged a walk for the re-election…
Improving Slum Dwellers’ Lives, A Myth
As the Millennium Development Goals get to its end, the question on the lips of many Nigerians concerned about housing…
Nations Cup Qualifier: Fight Eagles’ Shirt Begin, As Osaze, Others Arrive
Coach Samson Siasia expects a full house by tomorrow as Super Eagles players begin fight for the first 11 shirts…
Eagles Will Beat Ethiopia
O B Odense of Denmark and Super Eagles striker, Peter Utaka, has expressed strong optimism in the ability of the…
Nets Close In On Kano Pillars, As Comets Lead In Atlantic Conference
Although, Bauchi Nets lost their DSTV/NBBF Premier League week 8 match by one point to Plateau Peaks of Jos last…
Para-Athletics Trials Begin In Ibadan
The Nigerian Para-Athletics Federation rose from its meeting in Lagos State recently to fix 22-26 March for the National Open…
Igbobi High School Holds Inter-House Sports
Igbobi Junior High School Somolu held its Annual Inter-House Sports competition recently at Angus Memorial Secondary School, Somolu, Lagos State.…
Fight Climate Change, Fashola Urges Students
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says the danger posed by the impact of climate change is real and challenged…
Lagos Mobilises 20,000 For Market Carnival
The Lagos State Market Development Board is to mobilise over 20,000 market men and women from the 433 major markets…
‘Fashola Committed To Growth Of Democracy’
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, has been described as one of the few governors who is committed…
19 Suspected Cultists Docked
Nineteen suspected cultists have been arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ogudu, Lagos on a four-count charge of…