Year: 2011
Poverty Alleviation: Lagos Deputy Gov Tasks Financial Bodies
The Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, on Wednesday called on financial institutions to partner with the state…
2 Drivers Kill Traders
A commuter bus driver, Akeem Akinyola, 22, and a trailer driver, Olatunde Muhedeen, 38, have been docked at an Ikeja…
11 Escape Death In Building Collapse
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) says no fewer than 11 persons were rescued when an uncompleted three-storey building collapsed…
Estate Agent Dupes Tenants N10m
An Agege-based estate developer, Kolawole Ayinde, 32, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly obtaining about N10…
Filling Station Manager Steals N300,000
For allegedly stealing N300,000 and sales books from NIPCO filling station, Ifo, Ogun State, the manager, Oloyede Oluwole, 34 has…
Sports Festival: Officials Fight Over Camp Allocation
Reports from Port Harcourt, venue of the ongoing 17th National Sports Festival early today say some officials and athletes of…
Why Nigeria Dropped On FIFA Ranking —Onigbinde
Nigeria’s drop from 39th to 41st position on the latest FIFA ranking released yesterday has become a source of worry…
Don’t Let Germany Intimidate You, Jegede Charges Falcons
Former Board member of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Prince Bola Jegede, has urged Super Falcons of Nigeria not to panic…
MFM Lost To A Better Side
Chief Coach of MFM, Yaba, Fidelis Ilechukwu, is not happy over his team’s defeat by lowly rated Ristinego FC in…
Lub-Bak, Thunder Balogun Progress
Lub-Bak Football Club of Yaba and Teslim Thunder Balogun Football Club of Ikorodu have secured tickets to play in the…
Eagles Global To Screen Players
Eagle Global Association in conjunction with Association of Proprietors of Football Academies of Nigeria, APFAN, will next month begin screening…
Lucky Babes Promise Adeshina Tough Game
Lucky Babes Football Club of Yaba have declared war on Adeshina Babes Football Club of Agbado Ijaiye on Sunday at…
Sports Philanthropist Donates Jerseys
The 2011 Abesan Cup, which is scheduled to kick off next month in Lagos and Ogun States, has received a…
Governors’ Forum’s Advice On Subsidy Is Treasonable
The illegal association formed by the Nigerian Governors (otherwise known as Governors’ Forum) was in the news last week. They…
Establish An Initelligence Security Outfit And Not State Police
We have a lot of people with better ideas in this country, but the problem is how to translate our…
Time To Face The Electricity Quagmire
Will Nigerians ever have uninterrupted power supply? The question has become a recurring decimal since the mid 1970s when power…
Ojora Denies Harassment Allegation
Contrary to the deposition of Aro of Ijora, Chief Mufutau Oloyede, in a N10 million suit he instituted against the…
New Area Comptroller For Tin Can Port
The Nigeria Customs Service’s newly appointed Area Comptroller of the Tin Can Island Command, Edike Charles recently took over the…
Man Threatens To Kill Mom, Sister
An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday remanded a 31-year old man, Abraham Aina, in prison custody over a threat to…
Mimiko Denies Nominating Aide For President Jonathan
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko on Tuesday denied reports in some sections of the media that he nominated a…
Amosun Dragged To Court Over Dissolution of OGSIEC
The Governor of Ogun State, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has been dragged to an Abeokuta High Court over the dissolution of…
N93m Scam: Ex-Adamawa Gov Knows Fate July
Justice Adamu Bello of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned till 26 July, 2011 to hear…
N2.5 Billion Fraud: Court Orders IG To Producer Daily Times Owners
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Hafiz Riigim to produce the owners…
Benue Governorship Tribunal Fixes Date For Hearing Of Petition
The Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Makurdi today June 29, 2011 has fixed July 11, 2011 for commencement of…
Governor Amosun: How Daniel Raped Ogun State
On Wednesday 28 June, at a meeting with traditional rulers and other stakeholders in Ogun State, Governor Ibikunle Amosun, just…
Grandpa, Four Others Charged With Murder
An Ebute-Metta Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has ordered that a 76-year-old man and four others be remanded for…
ARMY/POLICE CLASH: Dismissed Soldier Faces Trial
Sunday Ayodeji, 32, the Lance Corporal who instigated the soldier and police clash at Obanikoro area of Lagos State, South…
FRSC Loses Zakary Mohammed
Popular Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, broadcaster, Zakary Mohammed is dead. He died recently, though the cause of his…
DPP, Police At War Over Trial Of Olohunwa, MC Oluomo
The Lagos State Directorate of Public Prosecution, DPP, and the police were literally at war today at an Ikeja magistrate’s…
Senate Begins Screening Of Ministerial Nominees
Nigerian Senate this morning began the screening of the 34 ministerial nominees sent to the upper chamber yesterday by President…