Year: 2011
Yuletide Season: LASG Deploys 410 Officers
In its concerted efforts to ensure safe, stress-free driving, reduce travel time and prevent avoidable loss of lives and property,…
Siasia Wants N1b From NFF, It’s Unfortunate —Toro
Sacked Super Eagles’ coach, Samson Siasia is demanding the sum of N1 billion from his former employer, Nigeria Football Federation,…
Mixed Reactions Trail Keshi’s Appointment
Nigerians have continued to express their views about the appointment of Stephen Keshi as the new Super Eagles’ coach by…
International Friendlies: NFF Calls Up Enyeama, Moses
The technical committee of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, have picked Wigan Athletic winger, Victor Moses and recalled goalkeeper, Vincent…
The Sovereign Wealth Fund: The Ends Do Not Justify The Means (2) —Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
Truly, a better wage structure is needed. In a perfect setting, the increased wage would prompt an automatic recalculation of…
How Justified Is The Arlarm By The Senate On States’ Bankruptcy? —Odunayo joseph
Considering the open plundering of monthly allocations from the Federation account by some states and embezzlement of public funds as…
Ghanaians Fight Over The Dead —Elizabeth Ohene
A friend of mine has had a traumatic experience and this has brought the subject of death forcibly to the…
Desperadoes On The Loose
The season when crime spirals out of control is here again. This is the period desperadoes go to any length…
Cleric Proffers Solutions To Nigeria’s Problems
The insecurity in the country has been attributed to the level of poverty, unemployment and inability of the Federal Government…
Commissioner Tasks NATA On Peaceful Coexistence
Lagos State Commissioner for Agriculture, Prince Gbolahan Lawal, has called on members of the Nigerian Automobile Technician Association, NATA, to…
Council Boss Supervises Removal Of Campaign Posters
Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Kehinde Bamigbetan yesterday led a 30-man team to remove campaign posters littering…
Rotary Club Omole Donates Library
In a bid to constantly serve humanity through acts of goodwill, the Rotary club of Omole Golden, District 9110, Nigeria,…
Finbank Officials Face Criminal Charges
The trial of the Managing Director of Finbank Plc, Mrs. Susan Iroche and her bank and two others have been…
Committal Proceedings Against NDLEA Boss Adjourned
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned till 8 December, 2011, committal to prison proceedings initiated against the…
Four Men Arraigned For Electoral Offences
Four men, Mumuni Ayodele 20, Silas Adesina 37, Fatai Giwa 19 and David John 27, apprehended by the police during…
Lawyer Jailed 6 Months For Assault On Policeman
An Abuja senior magistrates’ court has sentenced a lawyer, Jeff Mbatsavdue, 42, to six months imprisonment for beating up a…
Deposed Emir Goes To Court
A High Court in Gombe has adjourned hearing to December 1 in a suit brought before it by the deposed…
Man Arraigned Over Cow Theft
A 28-year-old man, Dauru Yusuf, a butcher at Abattoir market, Agege, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has been remanded at the Kirikiri…
Don Decries Lack Of Data On Violence
A professor of Guidance and Counselling, Prof. Oyaziwo Aluede, has decried the absence of a national survey on the prevalence…
Court Remands Man For Killing In-Law
An Osogbo senior magistrates’ court has ordered that a 35-year-old carpenter, Mr Hezekiah Toromade, be remanded in prison custody for…
Ohaneze Has Achieved Much In Lagos
Chief Louis Sunny Okafor is the Publicity Secretary of Ohaneze Ndigbo in Lagos State. In this interview, the media consultant…
Toyota Dominates Consumer Reports’ 2011 Auto Survey
Asian brands continue to dominate Consumer Reports’ 2011 Annual Auto Survey, sweeping the top nine spots. Toyota’s American brand Scion…
BMW Means Business
BMW means business with its new 3-series — the premium executive compact saloon that outsells many middle-market family runarounds. And…
Viramsun Supports Vulcanizers
Tyre marketer and distributors of GT Radial brand of tyres, Viramsun Nigeria Limited, has donated modern vulcanising kits estimated at…
Hyundai Sells 2.95m Units Worldwide
Hyundai Motor Company says it has sold 2,949,914 units worldwide in the first nine months of the year, up 10.5%…
Gambia Trip Excites Deepwater’s Players
The decision of the owner of First Deepwater Basketball Club, First Deepwater Discovery Limited, FDDL, to sponsor the reigning champions…
Beach Volleyball: Nigeria Good To Make London Olympics
Coach of Nigeria’s male beach volleyball team, Musa Nimrod, has stated that the team, which qualified for the next round…
My Best Is Yet To Come
 Quadri Aladeokin is a former striker of Ebiede Football Club. Aladeokin spoke with Grassroots Soccer Guide about the club and…
Divine Royal Set For Training Tour In Ghana
Divine Royal Football Club of Surulere is set to depart Lagos to Accra for friendly matches. Nineteen players including three…
Organisers Plan Big For Mamora Cup
Gbagada Grassroots Sports Association is planning big for this year’s Mamora Cup, which begins on 19 November at Gbagada Roundabout…