Month: August 2011
Commonwealth Boxing Bout: NBB of C Commends Kareem
Nigeria Boxing Board of Control, NBB of C, has commended Yakubu Kareem for defeating Ghana’s Cobina Johnson to become the…
Ladipo Tasks Sports Minister On Facilities
President General of the Nigeria Football Supporters Club, Dr Rafiu Ladipo, has urged Sports Minister, Yusuf Suleman, to upgrade the…
Onyemachi Blasts NSC Over Neglect Of Nigerian Athletes
Captain of Nigerian Judokas’ team to the ongoing World Judo Championships in Paris, France, Chukwuemeka Oyemachi, has stated that the…
Alleged N7.5m Demand By PDP In Ibeju Tears Ibeju ACN Apart
A group in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State has alleged that some members of the People’s Democratic Party…
Group Seeks ACN’s Intervention
An Igbo political group in the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has appealed to the leadership of the party in…
Transportation Crisis Looms In Lagos State
Pioneer president of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji M.A. Bakare, has raised an alarm that the…
Eid-el-Fitri: FRSC Begins Special Patrol
The FRSC has started a week-long nationwide patrol to ensure an accident-free Eid-el-Fitri celebration, a statement from the commission has…
Elections 2011, Metro, News, Politics
Aspirant Pledges Total Transformation
Hon. Niyi Lukman Adekunle, an Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, chairmanship aspirant for Agege Local Government Area, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria,…
Lawyer Tasks Judges
A legal practitioner, Barrister Kunle Adegoke has called on judges to be upright in their duties as the last hope…
Take Your Destinies In Your Hands, Nigerian Youths Advised
The Special Adviser to Governor Babatunde Fashola on Youth and Social Development, Dr. Enitan Dolapo Badru, has urged youths in…
Majid Michel Causes Stir
Ghanaian movie star, Majid Michel, caused a stir among the Nollywood stars especially the actresses, when he sauntered into the…
Holiday Makers Storm Cinemas For Red House Seven
Hundreds of movie lovers and students on holiday have been trooping into the cinemas across the country to watch a…
Queen Nwokoye Hosts Twitter Friends
Nollywood sweet heart and nominee for Scandal-Free Actress of the Year at the BON Awards coming up on 11 November,…
NIS Plans Big For Student Week
The newly elected president of Nigeria Institute For Sports, NIS, Alhaji El-Amin Aratumi, plans big for the forthcoming Students Week…
Her Grand Entry
Living up to the hype of a plan for an extravaganza, star actress Mercy Johnson was the real centre of…
10 Degrees Loses Gate
Despite the secrecy attached to the announcement of the venue of the wedding reception, it was so surprising to see…
‘Ore Ofe Oluwa’For Premiere 18 Sept
Sunday, 18 September, 2011 will be a big day in Lagos as Best of Nollywood (BON) will partner Stanley Peters…
My Marriage Is Intact, Says Oge Okoye
Beautiful actress Oge Okoye has debunked all claims that her marriage is either shaky, broken or threatened, saying she was…
Man United Humiliate Arsenal 8-2
Manchester United shattered Arsenal in the English Premier League by slamming eight goals past the shell-shocked Gunners at Old Trafford…
Woman Attempts To Set Church Ablaze
The Bauchi Police Command has arrested a 27-year-old woman for attempting to set ablaze St. John’s Cathedral Church on Yandoka…
World Bank Approves $82m For Kainji Dam
The Chief Executive Officer of Kainji Hydro Electricity PLC, Reuben Akinwumi, says the World Bank has approved a $82 million…
No Baby Died At Crèche Of Bombed UN House
The UN on Sunday said no baby died in the crèche of its building which was bombed on Friday in…
Nigerian Prostitutes Flood Mecca
The Nigerian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Garba Aminchi, has raised alarm over the influx of Nigerian girls into Saudi Arabia…
Saudi To Deport 1,500 Nigerian Illegal Immigrants
Garba Aminchi, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, says 1,500 Nigerians illegally residing in that country will be deported soon. Aminchi,…
‘No Boko Haram Threat Against UN In Nigeria’
There is no specific threat by the Boko Haram sect against the UN in Nigeria, the global body’s security chief,…
UN Abuja Blast Shocking -Deputy Sectretary-General
UN Deputy Secretary-General, Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro on Sunday in Abuja described the attack on its office in the Nigerian capital…
23 Confirmed Dead In Friday’s Blast
The Minister of Health, Professor. Onyebuchi Chukwu, says 23 people have been confirmed dead in Friday’s bomb blast at the…
Nigeria Will Help Reconstruct UN Building–Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan has promised that Nigeria would help in the reconstruction of the UN building destroyed by a bomb…
Nigerian Envoy Welcome Athletes, Officials To Maputo
Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Mozambique, Mr. Toye Olofintuyi, has urged Nigerian athletes to the 10th All Africa Games in Maputo…