Month: June 2011
Let’s Start The Festival Fire
Fellow Nigerians and all the people of goodwill, I humbly and assumingly present to you a Revolutionary Manifesto titled the…
South-West Marginalisation: Who Is Responsible?
The recent political brouhaha over the new speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, invariably indicates that the South…
It’s Time To Rein In The Somolu Terror Gang
For the past two weeks now, residents of Somolu have been held to ransom by hoodlums who have unleashed terror…
Court Cautions Labourer Over Attempted Rape
An Abuja Senior Magistrate’s Court on Monday cautioned a 21-year-old labourer, Ami Terfa, for attempting to rape a woman. The…
Fashola Flags Off 2011 Public Service Week Celebrations
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday flagged off activities marking the 2011 Public Service Week with a…
Review Federal Character Principle Now -Adefulire
Deputy Governor of Lagos state, Honourable Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, has called for an urgent review of the concept and practice of…
7 Die In Ghastly Auto Crash in Ibadan
About seven persons including two children within the ages of 3 and 5 years died in a ghastly motor accident…
N90.7M VETERINARY SCAM: Accused Absence Stalls Trial
The trial of the Registrar of Veterinary Council of Nigeria, Dr. Daniel Maddo and two other former officials of the…
Boko Haram: Lagos Assembly Approves N700m For Armoured Tanks
N700 million is to be spent by the Lagos state government on the purchase of 10 armoured personnel carriers as…
Four Corps Members, 24 Others Killed In Auto Crash
No fewer than 28 persons were believed to have lost their lives today in Enugu in a ghastly motor accident…
Man Kills Friend Over N50
A 21-year old youth, Olumide Afolabi, has been stabbed to death over N50. The deceased, a spray painter and a…
Boko Haram Kills Again In Maiduguri
Suspected members of a radical Islamist sect, Boko Haram, which bombed Nigerian police headquarters on Sunday opened fire on a…
Bank Staff Steals N25m From ATM
A bank staff, Adesanya Stephen Adeyemi, shocked the management of a new generation bank, after he manipulated the bank’s Automated…
Lagos Assembly Beefs Up Security
The Lagos State House of Assembly this morning beefed up security measures as the lawmakers resumed from a two-week break.…
JCI Takes Smoking Campaign To Schools
JCI Eko, a youth organisation, is again holding its quarterly seminar, JAYCESS Against Youth Smoking (JAYS), aimed at sensitising youths…
Football, Headlines, News, Sports, World News
Football Fans Boo Ex-Gov Igbinedion At Ogbe Stadium
According to William Shakespeare, the evil that men do lives after them. That indication manifested yesterday when football fans booed…
LASG Used, Dumped Us, Say Protesting Teachers
The 507 teachers recruited by the Lagos State Government to teach science students in the last West African Senior School…
Nigeria Paraded Overaged Players, ‘U-23 Eagles Not There Yet ‘ –Tanzania
Chief Coach of Tanzania’s U-23 team, Jemhurki Kihwelo, has attributed their 0-3 loss to Nigeria’s Dream Team V in a…
Lessons For Nigeria Police From Israel
The Nigeria Police Force and Nigerians have a lot of lessons to learn from the internal security arrangement in Israel,…
DJ Stabs Technician To Death
The police at Idimu in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State have launched a manhunt for a local disc…
Why FG Should Reform NYSC Scheme —Chukwudi Ibe
If there can be reform in the telecommunication sector; if there can be reform in the power sector; if there…
Fire Fighters Demand Life Assurance
Fire fighters in the aviation sector have called on the Federal Government to provide life insurance policy for them. Mr.…
Reducing The Pressure On Lagos —Abimbola Emdin-Umeh
The Seven Up end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway daily records unprecedented influx of people into Lagos from all across the…
Fashola To Reward Lagos Athletes
Team Lagos athletes that featured in the last KADA 2009 National Sports Festival will have cause to smile as the…
Jonathan Should Tackle Root Cause Of Terrorism
Those who were in doubt that terrorism had taken a firm foothold in our country can now have a rethink…
AAG Trials: Osayomi Leads 17 Pros To Calabar
As Nigerian athletes get set for the All Nigeria Open Track and Field Championship, top female sprinter, Damola Osayomi, and…
Ketu School Toilet Shut, Deputy Gov On A Visit
Following the tragic death of a seven-year old pupil at Irepodun Primary school in Alapere, Kosofe Local Government Area of…
TV Fashion Show Underway
Nollywood Worldwide Entertainment, NWWE, will hold the 5th edition of the Nigeria Television Fashion Show, NTFS, on Sunday, 26 June,…