Year: 2011
Beach Soccer: Nigeria To Host 4-Nation Tourney
Nigeria will record a milestone in the game of Beach soccer as Kinetic Sports in conjunction with Beach Soccer Worldwide…
Sports Festival: Lagos Claims Boxing Fame In Port Harcourt
The 17th National Sports Festival in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has come and gone with the host topping the medals…
Sports Festival: We Didn’t Use Elite Athletes —Rivers
The chairman of Team Rivers to the recently concluded 17th National Sports Festival, Boamah Iyayi, has said that Rivers State…
Low Turn Out In Ijebu Ode
More facts have emerged why Ijebu Ode International Stadium, Ogun State, always record low turnout in any continental championships or…
Nigeria’s Vina Bags BBA Final Week
With less than two weeks remaining, the trio of Bernadina, Zeus and Mumba have been sent packing from M-Net’s Big…
Tuface Goes On Reel
The more recent life of Nigeria’s most celebrated contemporary artiste, Tuface Idibia, is about to be released in a documentary…
Adenuga Speaks On Nnena And Friends
After a successful debut of Nnena and Friends TV show, the popular edutainment programme from Wale Adenuga Productions (WAP), tongues…
Fans Defy Rain For Ras Kimono
For many that attended Ras Kimono’s Sunday 10 July’s special concert tagged A Night With The Dub Master, it will…
Funke Akindele’s Jenifa Returns In September
When in 2009, Funke Akindele released the first of the sequel, Jenifa, it was like a breath of fresh air…
Okposo Gets New Record Deal
Contemporary gospel music act, Sammie Okposo has made history as the first Black artiste to be signed by TMG Records,…
Rolling Dollar Takes Faaji To New York
Octogenarian musician, Fatai Rolling Dollar and nine other versatile musicians are taking their brand of Faaji music to New York,…
Lawmaker Advocates Special Allocation For Lagos
Following the recent flood disaster that hit Lagos State, a member of the state House of Assembly, Yinka Ogundimu representing…
Asa Shines At Montreux Jazz Festival
Recently, Nigeria’s soul export Asa joined an exclusive league of musical greats, as she performed at the 44th edition of…
Northerners Have Been Pushed To The Wall
 Razak Balogun, a medical doctor by profession and the Chief Whip of the Lagos State House of Assembly, relives his…
Songstress Lami To Run Orphanage
Lami Phillips has taken social responsibility to another level when in a spontaneous act of kindness adopted an entire orphanage…
Lagos Commissioner Fetes Party Stalwarts
The newly appointed Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Abdulateef Aderemi Ibirogba, recently feted members of Action Congress…
Fed Govt Tasked Over Rehabilitation Of Prisoners
President of the Society of Security Practitioners of Nigeria, Davidson Akhimien, yesterday in Lagos, said that the Federal Government is…
Minimum Wage: Nigerian Workers Call Off Strike
After negotiations with State governors and Federal Government spanning several hours over the implementation of the new Minimum Wage Act,…
Ogun Assembly Confirms 18 Commissioners, 20 SA’s
Ogun State House of Assembly this evening confirmed the 18 commissionership nominees sent to the House by the governor, Sen.…
British Prime Minister Commends Fashola’s Transformational Leadership
Visiting British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, Tuesday praised the transformational leadership being provided by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde…
5 Docked For Murder Of Boko Haram Leader
Five serving police officers were on Tuesday arraigned by the Federal Government before Justice Donatus Okorowo of a Federal High…
Arik Plane Still Grounded In Senegal Six Days After
The financial crisis steamrolling  Arik Air has spread to Senegal with one of its planes still grounded in the West…
LASIEC Schedules Lagos Council Polls for Oct. 22
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) on Tuesday announced that it would conduct the state council elections on Oct…
Lagos Govt Committed To Welfare Of Public Servants-Fashola
The Lagos State Government has reiterated its commitment to the welfare of public servants in the state by ensuring prompt…
ACN Shock Over Ruling Of Akwa Ibom Gov Petition Tribunal
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as very curious and perverse the ruling of the Akwa Ibom governorship…
Ajimobi Slams Oyo Workers Over Strike
The Oyo State Government has decried the decision by the leadership of labour in the state to embark on an…
Oyo Workers Go On Strike
Workers in Oyo State today began indefini strike over minimum wage as they locked major gates at the secretariat. …
Minimum Wage Strike: Govs, Labour In Crucial Meeting
Nigeria state governors are meeting with the workers’ unions in what seems a last minute effort to avert the three-day…
N38B SCAM: Bankole Asks Court To Disqualify Keyamo From Prosecuting Him
The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole has asked an Abuja High Court to disqualify Festus Keyamo…
Senate Probes Privatisation Exercise
The activities of the Bureau for Public Enterprises, BPE, and the National Council on Privatisation, NCP, came under serious criticism…