Month: August 2011
U-20 World Cup: Cameroon Qualify For Second Round, Beat Uruguay 1-0
With determination to make good impact in the FIFA U-World Cup in Colombia, Cameroon’s junior national team, coming from two…
Secret Screening for Oyo Council Bosses
Amidst tight security Friday at the Oyo State House of Assembly, nominees were screened to act as caretaker chairmen for…
Nigerian Government Takes Over 3 Banks
The Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation, NDIC on Friday announced that it has taken over the running of three out of…
Nigeria: UN Urges Shell to Overhaul Oil Clean-up Process in Niger Delta
A UN report on the effects of oil pollution in Nigeria’s Delta region urges the oil company Shell to totally…
Mother, Son Docked For Fraud
A 62-year-old woman, Mrs. Esther Inyang and her son, Daniel Inyang, 27, have been arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s Court,…
Fashola Advocates Investment In Infrastructure
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has anvassed massive investment in infrastructure in the country in order to create…
ACN Slams Rivers Govt Over N250b Request For Water Rehabilitation
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Rivers State has condemned the administration of Rt. Hon Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi for failing…
Mimiko Commissions Projects
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko on Thursday commissioned two developmental projects executed by his administration in the Northern Senatorial district…
Investors To Build Green City In Ogoni
An eco-village project/industrial green city will soon be built in Khana Local Government Area. Disclosing this while presenting a proposal…
2-Year Rent Banned In Lagos, Assembly Passes Tenancy Law
Any landlord in Lagos State who collects rent in excess of one year in advance from a new tenant would…
Fake Pregnant Woman Held
A 44-year old woman and mother of three children has been arrested by the police at the domestic wing of…
Minimum Wage: Oshiomhole Aborts Trip Over Workers’ Strike
Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole, was yesterday forced to cut short his overseas trip in order to attend to workers…
Reliable Rail Network, Key To Maintenance Of Good Roads —Fashola
The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday received the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar in audience,…
BBA Girl, Karen Gets Rousing Reception
Karen Igho, the winner of the just concluded Big Brother Amplified, M-Net-sponsored television reality show, returned to Nigeria yesterday to…
Imoke To Provide IT Facilities In 250 Schools
Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has promised to provide the 250 secondary schools in the state with information…
Lagos Shuts 5 Oil Companies, 4 Others
The Lagos State Government today shut down five oil companies and four others at Kirikiri area of Lagos, South West…
Obuh Dreads Brazil In Second Round
The fear of Brazil is the beginning of wisdom for Coach of Nigeria’s Flying Eagles in the ongoing FIFA World…
Funds Threaten Wheelchair Tennis Players
Nigeria’s hope of featuring in the wheelchair tennis event at next year’s Paralympics Games in London is threatened due to…
Lagos-Ibadan Road: Lagos, Bi-Courtney Head For Showdown
The planned construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway has run into another hitch as the Lagos State Government and Bi-Courtney Highway…
Sale Of Aircraft: Explain Conflicting Figures, ACN Urges Amaechi
The controversy over the sale of the Rivers state owned aircraft to the Cross River State government has not abated…
Customs FOU Zone A Battles Smugglers
The Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, Federal Operations Unit, Zone A, Lagos led by Dimka Victor, a Deputy Controller of Customs,…
Is It For The Dead?
Death, they say, is inevitable. It is always painful losing a loved one. I have not really experienced death in…
Happily Married
Men and women are as different as black and white; what appeals to one might be total nonsense to the…
Oshodi Democrats Adopts Tinubu
Oshodi Democrats, a political organisation in Oshodi Isolo Local Government, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has adopted the candidature of the incumbent…
‘Ikeja ACN Is Politically Upside Down’
The immediate past member of the House of Representatives representing Ikeja Federal Constituency on the platform of the Action Congress…
Tambuwal: Critics Urged To Heed OBJ’s Advice
Critics of former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his comment that both the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal…
Obasanjo, Tinubu Battle For Honours
Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the former governor of Lagos State…
‘Why I’m The Best Man For Kosofe LG’
Ex-Secretary to Kosofe Local Government, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, between 2004 – 2007, Sanni Ganiyu Okanlawon Babatunde, OKLA, has declared his…
Nigeria Flying High With No Supporters
There is no doubt that the Flying Eagles are doing their best to make the people of Nigeria proud with…