Year: 2011
President Jonathan to Launch Job Creation Scheme
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will launch a job creation scheme that enables young people with knowledge and capacity to employ…
Gov. Fashola Inspects Gbagada Housing Estate
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Tuesday undertook an unscheduled inspection of the Gbagada Housing Estate in Gbagada,…
Lagos Assembly Summons Airtel Management Over Staff Retrenchment
The Lagos State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria, has summoned the management of Airtel, a telecommunications company with headquarters in…
Glo Voted Among Africa’s 10 Most Valuable Brands
Globacom has been voted among the 10 most valuable brands in Africa and the only privately owned company to make…
Lagos Begins Clampdown On Illegal Miners, Dredgers
The Lagos State Government has begun the enforcement and clampdown on illegal miners and dredgers in the state. Flagging off…
Committee Submits Report On LG Reforms
The Technical Experts Committee on Local Government Reforms has submitted its report to the Lagos State Government. The Commissioner for…
Jonathan Continues Defence As Tribune Editor, Reporter Escape Detention By Whiskers
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on Tuesday continued with the defence of the victory he secured at last April’s Presidential election…
Jonathan Sacks Aviation Chiefs
The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr. Richard Aisuebeogun, his counterpart at the Nigerian Airspace…
The Makers Or Destroyers Of Nigeria?
 The Council of State intervenes at critical periods in Nigeria but as individuals, its members, especially former presidents and heads…
2015: Corruption May Break Up Nigeria
 Chief Mbazuluike Amaechi, a.k.a. The Boy is Good, general secretary of the Zikist Movement before independence, is a living lion.…
Oshiomhole Launches Edo Traffic Management Agency
Governor Adams Oshiomhole today launched the Edo State Traffic Management Agency (EDSTMA) to help reduce the carnage caused by reckless…
Police Salary Stolen From Police Bank
Hopes of scores of policemen in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, to receive their September salaries were dashed this morning as…
Elections 2011, Metro, News, Politics
Council Poll: LASIEC Adopts ‘Open Secret Ballot’
The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, has said the voters’ accreditation, voting and counting of votes during the 22…
N1.6b Drugs Seized At MMIA
About N1.6 billion worth of hard drugs have been seized this year alone at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in…
Furore Over Attack On Nigerian Mom In The UK
A police investigation has been launched into an alleged assault on a Nigerian asylum seeker in front of her three…
Barren Woman Slashes Neighbour’s Son With Blade
A barren housewife, Mrs. Patience Onuh, has been charged to Apapa Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria for allegedly attempting…
Explosion Rocks Agip Facility In Bayelsa
The Obama flow line at Okoroma-Terekein Nembe Local Government Area of Bayelsa was rocked by an explosion on Sunday. The…
Nobel Prize Winner In Physics To Be Named Today
The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today in Stockholm, Sweden, the second of six Nobel prizes to be…
Shun Violence, ACN Chieftain Urges Electorate
Chief Wale Olowole, a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Somolu Local Government Area, Lagos State, southwest…
Taskforce Bulldozers Demolish Illegal Buildings, Shanties
 When residents of Odejobi Street, Agege, southwest Nigeria, woke up on Sunday, 2 October, 2011, they never expected that their…
Taxi Drivers Decry Poor State Of FG Roads
As the nation celebrates her 51st independence anniversary, chieftains of the Lagos State Association of Taxi Drivers and Cab Operators,…
Police Deploy More Cops To Ogun Border Areas
The Zone 2 Police Command yesterday said that more policemen had been drafted to Ogun State, especially the border areas,…
Yuguda Condoles With Gombe Over Acccident
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State has condoled with the government and people of Gombe State over the accident that…
Perm Sec Tasks Muslim Women
Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Alhaja Risikat Akinyode, has advised Muslim women to embrace…
3 Robbers Highjack Commuter Bus, 1 Arrested
Luck ran out on a member of a three-man robbery gang as he was arrested by men of the Lagos…
Sign Health Insurance Bill Into Law, Jonathan Advised
President Goodluck Jonathan has been urged to sign into law, the National Health Insurance Scheme Bill aimed at providing easy…
Nsofor, Uche In Abuja For Guinea
More Super Eagles players have arrived their Abuja camp for the weekend’s 2012 African Nations Cup qualifier against Guinea. P.M.…
Siasia Gives Osaze Licence To Kill
Nigeria coach, Samson Siasia, has given Osaze Odemwingie, who just returned to the national team for the first time since…
Scrabble World Tourney: Visa Hurdle Hits Team Nigeria
Nigeria’s hope of being part of this year’s world scrabble championship, WSC, may not come to reality as the country’s…