Month: November 2011
Eagles’ Job: ‘More Foreigners Show Interest’
Chairman, Technical Committee, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Chris Green says the committee has received a large number of applications from…
Cricket: Nigeria’s Scorecard For Last 10 Months—Sagoe
Cricket Nigeria has cause to celebrate for what the game achieved in the last 10 months of 2011. President of…
NERC Scraps Meter Maintenance Fee
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has finally bowed to the agitation by Nigerians for the removal meter maintenance charge…
Lagos International Trade Fair Begins Friday
The 2011 Lagos International Trade Fair, organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry will kick off on Friday,…
RIM Faces Lawsuits Over Blackberry Outage
Blackberry customers in the US and Canada are suing Research in Motion over the recent global outage which left millions…
SON Gives Importers Deadline To Withdraw Fake Bulbs
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has given importers of fake bulbs a two-week ultimatum to withdraw the substandard products…
Samsung, Biggest Smartphones Shipper
Research from Strategy Analytics has shown that Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in a three-month period, compared with 17.1 million…
Time To Reclaim Nigeria 2 —Chido Onumah
Perhaps the most interesting – some would say most bizarre – story out of Nigeria this past week was that…
Abuja: Their Own Abuja! —Joe Igbokwe
In 1975, the late Nigerian hero, General Mutala Mohammed appointed a committee on the new location of the Federal Capital…
Promoting Illiteracy Through Unpopular Policies
The affordability of university education allowed Nigeria’s first generation of graduates attain that status while government scholarship helped most of…
Why I Denied My Husband Sex —Wife
A Lagos housewife, Mrs. Ebun Olarenwaju, has told the Agege Grade ‘A’ customary court that she denied her husband, Michael…
YUMP Support Services Holds Entrepreneurship Programme
YUMP Support Services will next week launch its entrepreneurship programme in Lagos. The event which will take place at Paragon…