Month: July 2011
Ex-banker Drags Dangote Group to Court for N12m Damages
An ex bank official, Mr. Aderemi Adigun has dragged the management of Dangote Group of companies to court for N12million…
Minister Raises Alarm Over N120m Bills
The newly appointed Minister of Sports and Chairman of National Sports Commission, Alhaji Suleiman Yusuf, has described as outrageous the…
CANCELLED STRIKE: Ignorant Workers Stay At Home
Despite the fact that the three-day warning strike that was to kick off today was called off last night several…
Man Sent To Jail For Fondling Woman’s Breasts
A man, Micah Monday, has been charged to Apapa magistrate’s court Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria for allegedly fondling a pregnant…
Okonjo Iweala Still Absent As Weekly Meetings of FEC Kicks Off
The first weekly meeting of Federal Executive Council, since the election of President Goodluck Jonathan kicked off on Wednesday morning with…
Landlady Dies After Fight With Tenants
Detectives at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, PantiYaba Lagos are presently interrogating two tenants, Florence Ndukuwe and Ndukwe Chukudibere…
Strike Enters 2nd Day In Oyo State
Labour leaders in Oyo State have vowed to continue with the strike action they started yesterday until the demands of…
Lagos Assembly To Assist South West Assemblies On Institutional Development
Speaker of Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has pledged to assist the South West Assemblies on the…
Court Grants Nollywood Producer Bail
An Ikeja High Court in Lagos on Tuesday granted bail to popular Nollywood movie producer, Mr. Ifeanyi Onyeabor in the…
Candidates Struggle For Post UME Forms
Candidates vying for admission into the University of Lagos, Akoka on Tuesday struggled to purchase Post UME forms at the…
Boko Haram: Osu Asks FG To Enforce Anti-Terror Law
Monsignor Gabriel Osu, the Director of Communications, Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to enforce the anti-terrorism…
PPA Supports 6-Year Single Tenure For President, Govs.
Chief Sam Nkire, The National Chairman, Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), said on Tuesday in Abuja that he supported the proposal…
Suspected Kidnappers Sent To Prison
Two suspected kidnappers, Ifeanyi Onuoha, 29 and Pastor Wisdom Matthew, 38, have been docked before an Igbosere Magistrate’s court in…
LASPAA Raises Alarm Over Plan To Sabotage Meeting
The Lagos State Pools Agents Association, LASPAA, has raised an alarm over an alleged plan by officials of the Lagos…
STRIKE SUSPENSION: Low Start In Abuja
Commercial and official activities started on a very low key in Abuja Wednesday morning as many residents were unaware of…
PDP, PPN Behind Workers’ Protest In Ogun — Amosun’s Aide
The Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State governor, Funmi Wakama has accused opposition parties in the state as the brain…
RTEAN Tasks Police Over Face-Off With NURTW
Officials of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, Zone Six, Dopemu, Lagos State, have called on the police…
2 Charged With Kidnapping 5-Year-Old
The police in Ota, Ogun State have dragged two suspects, Lanre Adebayo, 34 and Adijat Jelili, 25 before the Ota…
Lagos Council Polls Hold 22 Oct.
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct the state council elections on October…
ACN Tasks Minister On Satellite Towns
Mr. Faruk Osuma, Chairman of the ACN, FCT Chapter, on Tuesday in Abuja charged the FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed,…
No To Merger Of Efcc, Icpc
Considering the pervasiveness of corruption in both the public and the private sectors of our nation’s economy and the Nigerian…
Scrap JAMB Now
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board, JAMB, conducted another admissions test for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates on 18 June, 2011.…
Nigeria’s Aviation Industry Is Dying
Nigeria’s aviation industry seems to be in deep financial crisis and a prompt intervention by the Federal Government is urgently…
U-20 World Cup: Emmanuel Banks On Experience
Nigerian U-20 striker Sani Emmanuel has said that with his experience and that of other members of the Nigeria’s Golden…
Cleric Proffers Solutions To Marital Problems
Couples have been advised to always speak out and seek for advice over their domestic problems before it generates into…
Hilal Coach Tips Enyimba For Semi Final
Despite holding Enyimba International FC to 2-2 draw in weekend’s CAF Champions League group match in Aba, coach of Al-Hilal…
Beach Soccer: Nigeria To Host 4-Nation Tourney
Nigeria will record a milestone in the game of Beach soccer as Kinetic Sports in conjunction with Beach Soccer Worldwide…
Sports Festival: Lagos Claims Boxing Fame In Port Harcourt
The 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has come and gone with the host topping the medals…
Sports Festival: We Didn’t Use Elite Athletes —Rivers
The chairman of Team Rivers to the recently concluded 17th National Sports Festival, Boamah Iyayi, has said that Rivers State…
Low Turn Out In Ijebu Ode
More facts have emerged why Ijebu Ode International Stadium, Ogun State, always record low turnout in any continental championships or…