Year: 2011
Robbers Raid Police Station, Rob Bank In Calabar
Gunmen on Monday attacked the Akamkpa Divisional Police station on the outskirts of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, South-South…
SWF Is llegal, Unconstitutional And Fraudulent – ACN
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has strongly condemned the aggressive clamour by the Federal Government to set up the…
Baba Suwe Regains Freedom Friday
Justice Yetunde Idowu of an Ikeja High court, this morning, ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to release…
Jonathan’s Victory Upheld
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan this morning floored Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), the candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC,…
Remi Tinubu Vs Etti: Tribunal Delays Ruling
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, deferred delivering judgement in the appeal filed the Labour Party candidate,…
Oyo State To Build 2 Parks
Oyo State Government has awarded N250 million worth of contracts for the construction of two inter-city motor-parks to stem traffic…
Nigeria Now World’s 6th Most Populous Country
At 167 million people, Nigeria is currently ranked the sixth largest population in the world. This follows a report that…
FG Declares Monday, Tuesday Public Holiday
The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday next week public holiday to mark the celebration of Eid-el-Kabir. This was…
Man Arrested For Using Oba’s Name To Dupe People
A 38-year old man and representative of United State of America, USA, Chaplain fellowship, Ohio, Columbus, in Lagos, southwest, is…
Senator Backs State Creation
Senator Ayogu Eze (PDP-Enugu) has said that the idea of creating new states to bring government closer to the people…
Collapsed Building: Lagos To Publish Lists Of Defective Buildings
The Lagos State Government says it will publish the list of defective structures marked for demolition across the state any…
Go Clean Up Your Mess, Fashola Tells LG Bosses
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has told the newly elected Chairmen of 20 Local Government Councils and 37…
Restructure NDDC, Jonathan Urged
South East/South South Professionals, a non-partisan group, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to begin his transformation agenda with the…
NDE Trains 500 Youths In Enugu
The National Directorate of Employment, NDE, has trained no fewer than 500 youths in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu…
I Was Offered N50m Bribe Over Probe –Lawmaker
The chairman, Ogun State House of Assembly Committee on Lands and Housing, Pastor Remmy Hassan, has alleged that he was…
Bamigbetan Charges Ejigbo Council Legislators
The re-elected Chairman of Ejigbo Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Lagos State, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan, has charged the council’s legislators…
2012 Gov Poll: Adamawa INEC Begins Voter Education
Ahead of 2012 governorship election in Adamawa State, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has begun the education of voters.…
Firm Invests N750m In Steel Pipe Production
The Nigeria Gas and Steel Limited, NGSL, a Lagos-based company, has raised the stakes in the manufacturing of steel pipes…
Ifako-Ijaiye Chairman’s Wife Promises New Dawn
Wife of Chairman of Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, Mrs. Modupe Oke, has told the people of the…
Eagles’ Job: ‘More Foreigners Show Interest’
Chairman, Technical Committee, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Chris Green says the committee has received a large number of applications from…
Cricket: Nigeria’s Scorecard For Last 10 Months—Sagoe
Cricket Nigeria has cause to celebrate for what the game achieved in the last 10 months of 2011. President of…
NERC Scraps Meter Maintenance Fee
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has finally bowed to the agitation by Nigerians for the removal meter maintenance charge…
Lagos International Trade Fair Begins Friday
The 2011 Lagos International Trade Fair, organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry will kick off on Friday,…
RIM Faces Lawsuits Over Blackberry Outage
Blackberry customers in the US and Canada are suing Research in Motion over the recent global outage which left millions…
SON Gives Importers Deadline To Withdraw Fake Bulbs
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has given importers of fake bulbs a two-week ultimatum to withdraw the substandard products…
Samsung, Biggest Smartphones Shipper
Research from Strategy Analytics has shown that Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones in a three-month period, compared with 17.1 million…
Time To Reclaim Nigeria 2 —Chido Onumah
Perhaps the most interesting – some would say most bizarre – story out of Nigeria this past week was that…
Abuja: Their Own Abuja! —Joe Igbokwe
In 1975, the late Nigerian hero, General Mutala Mohammed appointed a committee on the new location of the Federal Capital…
Promoting Illiteracy Through Unpopular Policies
The affordability of university education allowed Nigeria’s first generation of graduates attain that status while government scholarship helped most of…
Why I Denied My Husband Sex —Wife
A Lagos housewife, Mrs. Ebun Olarenwaju, has told the Agege Grade ‘A’ customary court that she denied her husband, Michael…