Year: 2011
Group Donates To Police
In a bid to assist the police in community policing, the Committee for the Defence of People’s Rights, CDPR, have…
LAWMA To Deregister Ineffective PSP Operators
The Lagos State Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) said on Tuesday that it would deregister PSP operators that failed to do…
Flood: Residents Embark On Self HelP
In order to prevent flood, residents of Egbetedo/Panada community in Ojokoro Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, have cleared…
Maid Steals Employer’s N700,000
A 50-year-old housemaid, Grace Udogun was on Tuesday in Lagos arraigned for allegedly stealing N700,000 belonging to her employer. The…
I Don’t Know How I Married My Hubby, Wife Tells Court
A Lagos housewife, Mrs. Rokiba Sanni seeking dissolution of her marriage has told an Iyana Ipaja Grade ‘B’ Customary Court,…
Court Sentences Woman For Contempt
A 40- year-old woman, Oloyede Kubrat was on Tuesday in Lagos sentenced to three months in prison for failing to…
Man, 61, Remanded Over N.55m Fraud
The police in Lagos have arraigned a 61-year-old man before the Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on one count charge of allegedly…
A Lawmaker’s Love For Orphans
When the member representing Epe Constituency 2 in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Olusegun Olulade, clocked 40 few…
Ogun C J Promises Improve Judicial System
The Ogun State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Wemimo Ogunde (SAN), and Justice Abiodun Akinyemi, today lamented the sorry…
President Jonathan Proposes 6 Year Tenure in New Bill
In a move that will certainly stoke up fresh controversies that he is bent on elongating his tenure of office,…
Fashola Urges Residents Of Distressed Buildings To Relocate
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday urged all those living in distressed buildings in the state to relocate…
N75b Scam: Ex-Works Minister Protests His Trial
Former Works Minister, Dr Hassan Lawal, who is standing trial before a Federal High Court in Abuja on an alleged…
Amaechi Explains Plan To Acquire $48m Jet
At a time some state governors are kicking against the payment of N18,000 minimum wage to workers, the Rivers State…
Be Productive Or Face Sack, Lamido Warns New Commissioners
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has warned the newly sworn-in commissioners to work to improve the welfare of the…
Nigerian Customs Impounds Smuggled Drugs, Textiles
Luck has run out for a group of smugglers, when the Nigerian Customs Service intercepted a large cache of banned…
5 Die, 8 Injured In Kaduna Auto Crash
Five persons yesterday died in a ghastly motor accident that involved an eighteen seater town service commercial bus and a…
Tenants Desert ‘Shaky Shaky’ 3-Storey House
In order to avoid being killed, the majority of residents of a three-storey building at 240, Herbert Macaulay Way, Alagomeji,…
Maid Opens Up On Rape By Ex-IMF Chief
In a tearful and graphic account, Nafissatou Diallo, the African woman of Guinean descent, yesterday appeared on ABC, an American…
Another Film Producer Sent To Kirikiri
Budding artistes, mostly young ladies, have accused a film director, Endurance Egem, of not only ripping them off through collection…
Judge Orders 419 Suspect Extradited To U.S.
A Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Binta Murtala Nyako today ordered that a suspected Nigerian fraudster,…
Elections 2011, News, Politics
Ogboru Set To Appeal
The Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, candidate in the 6 January, 2011 governorship election rerun in Delta State, Chief Great Ovedje…
NAFDAC, Interpol Move Against Counterfeit Drugs
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in collaboration with International Police (INTERPOL) has trained the…
13 Robbery Suspects Nabbed In Lekki
The police in Lagos on Monday said it had arrested 13 suspected armed robbers who were allegedly terrorising residents of…
NAPEP Set To Recover N558m From Defaulters In Katsina
The National Poverty Eradication Programme (NAPEP) in Katsina State has set up a committee to recover N558 million debts from…
Fashola Advises Against Creation Of States
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has advised the National Assembly not to include six-year single tenure and states creation…
Football, Headlines, Sports, World News
Saudi Players Want Church Pulled Down
Reports from Colombia, venue of this year’s FIFA U-20 World Youth Championship, WYC, say Nigeria’s first round foes, Saudi Arabia,…
Gov Ahmed Disbands Kwara United Board
This news may not gladden the hearts of supporters of Kwara United Football Club as the board of their darling…
Rochas’ Quaint Monarchical Bent And The Fourth Tier Concept
I reckon that one of the most controversial statements coming from the stable of Owelle Rochas Okorocha so far is…