Year: 2011
TheNEWS Shape Up For SWAN Cup
Skipper of TheNews Football Team, Tunde Oyedele, has expressed confidence that his team are battle ready to give their opponents…
Raymond King Tasks Wusu FC On Discipline
Players of Wusu Football Club and Academy have been charged to remain focused and disciplined in order to succeed in…
Students Groan As ASUU Strike Paralyses Academic Activities
Students of various public universities in Nigeria have continued to groan over the indefinite strike action embarked upon by the…
Auchi Poly Holds Conference On Vision 20:2020
As part of the motive to drive the nation’s economy towards achieving its fulfilment through the vision 20:2020, the School…
…Commissions FM Station
The much-awaited FM radio station aimed at enhancing effective flow of information dissemination within and outside the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi…
‘I’m The Future Of Nollywood’
Anita Joseph, one of Nigeria’s newest stars on television says she is one of the talents that will bring glory…
Glitz And Glamour At AFRIFF 2011
It was all glitz and glamour at the Lagos Oriental Hotel when a week-long AFRIFF International Film Festival came to…
Funke Akindele Is So Klin Ambassador
Multi-talented actress Funke Akindele popularly known as Jenifa has won another deal to raise her brand. Recently, the actress and…
Mo’Eazy Relocates To Nigeria
After over a decade on the urban music scene in the United Kingdom, Nigerian-born rapper Mo’Eazy is heading back home…
Wizkid Headlines FAB Night Out
Rave singer, Wizkid will lead the list of artistes who will be thrilling guests at the annual FAB Night Out…
What Exactly Is Disability Awareness?
The theme of the 2011 International Day of persons with disabilities is Together for a better world for all: including…
UNILAG Marks World AIDS Day
There was a massive turnout in the University of Lagos as students and staff celebrate this year’s World AIDS Day.…
Eteye Hosts One Man, One Laugh
Comedian Adewale Babatunde Joseph otherwise known as Eteye is set to host his annual comedy show again. The show tagged,…
Comedy Central Berths
Yesterday evening, a new 24-hour English language comedy channel reaching viewers in 47 territories in sub-Saharan Africa was launched. It…
Ojuku And National Unity
The letter of admission I received to read Law at Oxford University in 1983 was one I was determined not…
Man, 41, in court for attempted murder
A 41-year-old man, Joseph Ezenkwe,  was on Tuesday arraigned before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court for alleged attempted murder. The…
Why State Police Is Not Feasible Now -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan said Tuesday in Ilorin that with the current political environment in the country, it will not be…
Budget 2012: Lagos Lawmakers Query Fashola’s Plan To Borrow Money
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly have raised concerns over moves by the Babatunde Fashola-led administration to go…
Trader Steals 36,000 Bags Of Rice
The police in Lagos have arraigned a 30-year old trader before the Ebute-Metta Magistrates’ Court, sitting at Oyigbo, Lagos, southwest,…
Man Sent To Prison For Failure To Marry Lover
A 35-year old man who fraudulently obtained money and engaged a woman in marathon sex under the false pretence of…
RTEAN Leader Arrested
Detectives at the SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos, investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a commuter bus driver, Sunday Taye…
Gov Fashola Fed Up With Okada Riders; 346 Okada Robbers Arrested In 11 Months, 1,259 Accidents Recorded In Two Months
Worried by the menace posed by commercial motorcycles, a.k.a. Okada riders in Lagos State, Governor Babatunde Fashola is set to…
Boko Haram Man Jailed
Former spokesman for the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram, Ali Sanda Umar Konduga, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment…
Okada Robber Shot
An attempt by a three-man robbery gang on commercial motorcycle (Okada) to rob a female bank customer in front of…
Anglican Priests Go Tough On Same Sex Marriage
As the controversy over the law banning same sex marriage rages, the Anglican Communion of the Niger Delta North has…
Driver Narrates Ordeal In Hands Of Ritualists
A driver, Mr Ovie Adolphus, on Sunday night escaped death at the hands of suspected ritualists in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa…
Don’t Embark On Strike, PDP Chieftain Urges ASUU
APeople’s Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain in Lagos State, Owolabi Salis, has advised members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities,…
Kidnappers Paid N12.5m For Monarch’s Freedom
The State Security Service (SSS) says the family of the kidnapped monarch of Ogbogoro Community in Bayelsa State, Godwin Igbodo,…
How Fashola Rescued Me —Community Leader
The chairman of Ikeja Community Development Committee and Ogunbiyi Community Development Association, Computer Village, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Mr. Adegunwa Osinubi,…