Year: 2011
Elections 2011, News, Politics
DPP Advises INEC To Update Voters’ Register
The Democratic Peoples’ Party (DPP) has advised INEC to update the voters’ register as soon as the election petition tribunals…
Nations Cup: Wheelchair Players Ready For Training
Senior male wheeelchair basketball players are waiting on the Nigeria Wheelchair Basketball Federation, NWBF, to call them to camp ahead…
Aregbesola Seeks One Varsity For Southwest
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has advocated the establishment of a single university that would operate a collegiate system…
SWAN Win GSK Cup
The Lagos chapter of the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria, SWAN, yesterday at the Fan Turf, Lekki emerged champions of…
Measles Kills 41 In Yobe
Forty one persons have died in Yobe in the last 18 months following the outbreak of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM)…
Convenant Varsity To Rank Among World Best
The Vice Chancellor, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Aize Obayan, said the institution would break the jinx of poor ranking…
Nigeria Premier League: Amankwei On Cloud 9
Ghanaian-born forward, James Amankwei, is living his dream in Nigeria, where he has become the most important player at relegation…
Tinubu: Enigmatic Leader Of Yoruba And National Hero
The spectacular success of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the recently concluded elections is an eloquent attestation to…
Repair This Road, Please
Motorists and commuters appeal to Federal Government as they groan daily in gridlock at Abule-Egba on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway …
Re: Alhaji Buhari Oloto
My attention has been drawn to a publication in your newspaper of Thursday, 19 May, 2011, at page 3, on…
Lionel Messi: Boy Genius
Given a rare night on the Barcelona bench last Sunday, Lionel Messi yanked on the seat in front of him,…
Nigeria Needs Food Security
The revelation that Nigeria now depends on many countries for the supply of staple foods that could be produced locally…
US Ambassador Supports Retention of NYSC
The United States ambassador in Nigeria, Mr. Terence McCulley, has commended the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, saying it…
Adeolu Rates League High
Adeolu Ojo, a player of Kada Stars Basketball Club of Kaduna, says the coming of DSTV as the main sponsor…
146,879 Vehicles Impounded In One Year
The Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) has impounded 146,879 rickety vehicles in the last one year in a bid to ensure…
Lawmaker Accuses Police Over Unlatched Containers
A Lagos lawmaker, Mr. Ipoola Omisore, has decried the reluctance of the police to enforce a resolution of the Lagos…
Task Force Arrests Pipeline Vandals
The Anti-Vandal Unit of Lagos state Environmental and Special Offences Unit, popularly called Task Force, Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos State, Southwest…
Bad Road Is Killing Our Business, Traders Lament
Traders at the Egbelu community market in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have appealed to the state government…
Lagos Realises N11.5b From Governor’s Consent
The Lagos State Government has generated N11.5 billion from the issuance of governor’s consent policy on land, disclosed the Permanent…
Fire Razes Shops At Ojodu Market
Goods worth millions of Naira were burnt to ashes yesterday evening at the popular Ojodu Berger market along Kosofe Road…
Mushin Residents Get Free Medical Care
More than 1,000 persons, including journalists, were given free medical treatment by the Mushin Local Government Council in Lagos, the…
Parents Urged To Encourage Use Of Mother Tongue
The management of Overcomers Academy, Abule-Egba, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has called on parents to encourage their children to learn…
Lagos Set To Send Out Ajegunle Flood Victims From Camp
The Lagos State Government is set to send out the 1,019 victims of Ajegunle flood disaster from its relief camp…
Tenant Docked Over Dud Cheque
The police at the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos Island, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have arraigned a man, Godfrey Shitgurum,…
Keep Eagle’s Eye On Private Varsities
A renowned Professor of Medicine, Prof. Olu Akinkugbe, has charged the National Universities Commission (NUC) to keep an eagle’s eye…
Baale Appeals To Gov-Elect
The Baale of Loburo Town, Mowe in Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, Jinadu Obisola has appealed to the Ogun State governor-elect,…
‘We’ve Delivered Democratic Dividends To Rural Communities’
Lagos Commissioner for Rural Development, Prince Lanre Balogun, has said that the state government had been able to deliver the…
Clearing Agent To Divorce Wife
A clearing and forwarding agent, Mr. Abiodun Jaiyeoba has dragged his wife, Madam Esther Rabiu Ibrahim before the Agege Grade…
Chelsea Sack Ancelotti
Chelsea this evening sacked boss Carlo Ancelotti after they failed to win any silverware this season thesun.co.ukreports. The Blues were…
EPL Champions, Man United Confirm Blackpool’s Relegation
Blackpool’s fairytale debut season in the top-flight came to an end at Old Trafford this evening as they were beaten…