Year: 2011
Ibadan Varsity Rejects 1,012 Over Fake Results
At least 1,012 out of 4,704 candidates invited for an interactive session by the University of Ibadan,UI, have been denied…
UNAAB Expels Two
At the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, two students, Ayinla Lukman T. and Akinlabi Adeniyi of the Department of Statistics, have…
Accreditation Budget: Lagos Assembly Grants LASU N3bn
The Lagos State House of Assembly has approved that N3.02bn should be added to the capital expenditure of the Lagos…
OAU Students Protest
Students’ Union leaders and the management of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, are at loggerheads over the increment of the…
UNIOSUN Admits 50 Pioneer Law Students
The Osun State University (UNIOSUN) has admitted 50 pioneer law students to kick-start its law programme and expand the university’s…
About Auchi Poly’s Admission Process
In order to sanitise admission into the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, the management said 30,866 applications, mostly with fake…
More Hard Times For Consumers As Kerosene, Cooking Gas Prices Soar
The number of problems an average Nigerian faces on a daily basis seems to be growing by the day. During…
PHCN Distributes 608 Transformers Across Lagos
The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has disclosed that 608 transformers were distributed across Lagos State last year to…
Jos: The Road To Mogadishu …What No One Wants To SayRoad
I have watched, read and listened; it’s been one news report after the other, commentary by commentary, grief, pain, sorrow,…
African Women And Their Hair (2)
Just as I promised last week, I am taking the second part of this article today. Some people are going…
Igbinedion: EFCC Should Tidy Up Its Acts
That the former governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion, is on the run again from the law for fraud-related…
Airtel One8 Collaboration Voted 2011 Best Bet By Billboard International Collaboration
The first all-African and ground-breaking super group, airtel One8, has  received an influential endorsement from the music industry’s authoritative publication –…
Teenager Jailed 5 Years
Ebuka Okafor, a teenager and bus conductor, was on Monday sentenced to five months’ imprisonment by an Abuja Senior Magistrate’s…
Security Guard Docked Over N2m Theft
A security guard with one of the communication networks, Richard Okotie, on Monday appeared before a Somolu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos,…
Clearing Agent Docked
A clearing agent, Rashidat Olatunji, has been docked at the Ogudu Magistrate’s Court in Lagos on a two-count charge of…
Court Annuls Petty Trader’s Marriage
An Alimosho Customary Court in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has dissolved a marriage between a…
Somolu ACN Leaders Pledge Loyalty To Party
Political leaders in Somolu and Bariga led by Alhaji R.K. Mustapha, Chairman, Somolu chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria,…
My Wedding Plans In Top Gear, Says Stephanie Okereke
Multiple award-winning actress, Stephanie Okereke, has said that her proposed wedding with heartthrob, Linus Idahosa is still on course. Idahosa…
FRSC Arrests 18 Underage Drivers In Borno
The Borno Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says it has arrested 18Â underage drivers plying roads…
Voter Registration, A 100 Billion Naira Hoax, Says ACN
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the ongoing voter registration as a hoax of immense proportion, considering that…
Nigeria’s Justice Minister Stops Fraft Trial
Mohammed Adoke, Nigeria’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice has stopped the trial of Minister of State for Health Alhaji…
2011: Pastor Bakare Is Buhari Running Mate
General Muhammadu Buhari, (retd) the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), has picked Lagos based Christian cleric…
Jonathan Orders Immediate Evacuation of Nigerians Stranded In Egypt
President Jonathan who is currently in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia for the 16th session of the African Union (AU) General Assembly has…
Anger Rages On Yala/Ogoja Constituency Primaries
Even as political parties have submitted the list of candidates to contest the April 2011 elections, protest is still raging…
2011: Ribadu Has No Deal With Jonathan, Obasanjo —Campaign Team
The Nuhu Ribadu Campaign Organisation has described as false propaganda rumours being spread in certain parts of the country that…
N11.2m Fraud: AGF Ask ICPC To Hand- off Trial of Minister
In what looked like an an echo of Mike Aondoaka’s tenure in the same position, a curious letter from the…
Mob Razed Abuja Zenith Bank Branch Over Killing Of Pregnant Woman
By shooting at a taxi which was trying to make a turn at the front of a bank he was…
3 Killed As Cult Groups Clash In Ijebu Ode
At least three people were killed in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, South-West Nigeria when two cult groups engage in a free-for-all.…
Found Dead: Lagos Ritualists Pluck Out The Eyes Of A Missing Lady
A 36-year-old woman, Olukemi Gbelee, who was reported missing by P.M.NEWS last Thursday while on her way to the voter…
Egypt Protests Continue As Mubarak Refuses To Quit
Protests to oust recalcitrant Egypt’s leader Hosni Mubarak have continued with the country’s most prominent democracy advocate, Nobel Peace laureate…