Year: 2011
Groups Dissociate Selves From Publication Against Aspirant
The entire youths, market women, traditional rulers and political leaders in Ayobo-Ipaja Local Council Development Area of Lagos State have…
Residents Laud LG Boss Over Achievements
The Nupe community in Lagos Mainland Local Government Area of Lagos State has debunked allegations of nonperformance against the council…
Ogun Inaugurates Truth Commission
In order to redress the wrongs of the past and ensure peaceful coexistence among the citizens of Ogun State at…
Amaechi Decries Obnoxious Federal Laws
Following the worsening electricity supply in Rivers State despite generating over 400 megawatts of power through its Independent Power Project,…
NEMA Distributes Relief Materials To Lagos Flood Victims
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has distributed relief materials to 89 flood victims in Ojodu Local Council Development Area.…
Ogun To Prune Down Tertiary Institutions
Ogun state government may soon prune down the number of the tertiary institutions in the state,except the newly inaugurated Visitation…
Governor Mimiko asks Assembly to Approve New Commissioners
The Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has sent the names of sixteen additional commissioner-nominees to the State House of…
Fashola Commissions Two Borehole Projects In Mushin
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola has commissioned two boreholes for the use of residents of…
Popular Singer, MC Loph Dies In Road Crash
Popular singer, Nwaozor Obiajulu otherwise known as MC Loph, is dead. The Osondi Owendi Remix crooner, died in an auto…
Tight Security At NDDC Headquarters
Less than 24 hours after the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, board was dissolved, security has been beefed up at…
NURTW Boss, 10 Others Charged With Murder
The chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Abeokuta chapter, Hakeem Bodunmi and 10 others have been arraigned before…
Worker Steals Company’s N35m
A company worker, Chris Famakinwa has been arraigned before an Apapa Magistrate’s Court in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, for stealing…
Checkpoint Tragedy: Stray Bullet Kills Beef Seller
But for the timely intervention of community leaders at Oko Baba near Ebute Meta in Lagos, police top shots and…
U.I. Students Disrupt Exams
Students of the University of Ibadan (UI) today disrupted the institution’s on-going second semester examination while protesting against lack of…
Impotence May Point To Heart Problems
Failing erections may be a harbinger of heart disease in some men, according to a review of a number of…
Hotel Workers Protest Over Unpaid Salaries
Staff of Lafia Hotel, Apata, Ibadan, a subsidiary of O’dua Conglomerate on Tuesday protested over non-payment of their five-month salaries.…
Nine-Eleven As A Metaphor —Sulaiman Osho
Since the dismantling of the political bi-polar system of the world, the United Staes of America has remained the uni-polar…
NAFDAC Seals 3 Medicine Stores
National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday, in Asaba, Delta, sealed one pharmacy and two patent…
Rights Groups Battle Customs Over Arrest Of 165 Suspects
The arrest of 165 suspects at Tin Can Island Port, Apapa, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria by the officials of Nigeria…
Osaze’s Form Excites Siasia
Super Eagles’ handler, Samson Siasia, has expressed delight over the impressiveform displayed by Osaze Odemwingie during West Brom’s Premier League…
‘I Killed Him Because He Threatened My Life’
Chinedu John Ogbonna who allegedly killed his colleague, Emeka Odoh, in the early hours of yesterday at 30, Burma Road,…
BRF Wrestlemania 2011: Foreigners Declare War On Nigerians
Foreign wrestlers taking part in the ongoing Intercontinental Wrestling Championship tagged BRF Wrestlemania 2011, have declared that they are in…
Who Will Inspire Nigerians?
Three days ago, at the Kennedy Centre in Washington D.C., US President, Barack Obama, addressed his countrymen on the 10th…
Trovan Saga: Not Yet Uhuru? —Yaya S. Ibrahim
I read Malik Mohammed’s article titled “Brila FM, Trovan, Technology and all that…†with keen interest. He is well entitled…
Security Guard, 2 Others Jailed For Burglary
A security guard, Lawal Mustapha, 24, with two other accomplices, Abdullahi Muhammed, 20, and Isaac Ayuba, 23, were on Tuesday…
Jonathan Still Confused —Lagos Lawmakers
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have urged Nigerians to expect less from the administration of President Goodluck…
Insecurity: Let Nigerians Carry Arms, Oritsejafor Tells Jonathan
National president, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to allow Nigerians to…
30 Police Officers Fail Promotion Course
As the results of the police promotion course held in June this year are about to be released, there are…
Police Foil Robbery, Recover Car, Arms
Anti-Robbery policemen attached to Victoria Island Police Station, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have foiled a robbery attempt at Kuramo Close,…