Year: 2011
Boko Haram: Committee Asks Government to Negotiate
The Usman Galtimari Committee set up by President Goodluck Jonathan to study the problem and advise the government on the…
Christ Embassy To Distribute Free Copies Of Rhapsody In Calabar
In keeping with its patriotic practice of distributing free copies of its daily devotional Rhapsody Of Realities during Nigeria’s Independence anniversary…
Jonathan Approves Appointment Of New HOSF
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Alhaji I.B. Sali as the new Head of the Civil Service of…
Lagos: The Beautiful And The Ugly
The marked difference in infrastructural development in various Lagos communities paints a grim picture of a tale of two worlds…
ACN Urges FG To Stop Extra-Judicial Killings By Police
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Federal Government to take a decisive measure to end the…
Nigeria’s Ex-chief Justice Moves To Sack Justice Salami’s Lawyers
Justice Aloysius Katsina – Alu, former Chief Justice of Nigeria and the man at the centre of the legal battle…
INEC Opens Defence Over CPC’S Petition
The Independent National Election Commission, INEC, on Monday at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, opened its defence…
Jonathan Asks Nigeria’s New Chief Justice To Clear The Rot In judiciary
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday asked Hon. Justice Dahiru Musdapher, the new Justice of Nigeria to tackle the problem of…
Pastor Ighodalo: I’ll Buy My Own Coffin, Wants Funeral Money Given To Poor
Pastor Olajide Ituah Ighodalo of Trinity House Church, whose second marriage to former Miss Lux, Ibidunni Ajayi, led to his…
Next Daily Shuts Down
NEXT newspaper run by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Dele Olojede stopped publication Sunday after 2½ years of muckracking and sometimes…
Elections 2011, Metro, News, Politics
Lagos Council Polls: Adaranijo, 2 Others Get 3rd Term Tickets
After weeks of anxiety, tension and speculation, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has finally released its…
Oyo Senate Battle: Appeal Court Orders Retrial Of Okediran’s Petition
The Court of Appeal in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, on Monday heard an appeal filed by the Action Congress…
Ladies Dominate As First Evictee Emerges In GUS 8
Barely 24 hours in the Egbetua in Ososo, Akoko Edo, Edo State, the first evictee has emerged in the Gulder…
African Icon, Wangari Maathai Is Dead
The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Mrs. Wangari Maathai, has died, reports from Kenya, her home…
‘Why Compass Stopped Publishing’
The management of Western Publishing Company Limited, publishers of Nigerian Compass and the Westerner has offered a reason why the…
20,000 Ex-Militants Complete Rehabilitation, Last Batch Leaves Obubra Camp
With 20,192 ex-militants having gone through the rehabilitation and non-violence training under the Niger Delta Amnesty Progamme in Obubra, Cross…
Tenancy Law: Lagos Govt, Landlords, Tenants Parley
Hundreds of landlords and tenants gathered at the Lagos Television premises, Ikeja, Lagos, South west Nigeria, at the weekend to…
Lagos Moves To Implement Physical Planning Laws
In a bid to correct the anomalies in the building environment, the Lagos State Government is set to implement the…
‘Boko Haram Wants To Frustrate Jonathan’
The Igbo Solidarity Movement, a group which seeks to protect the interest of Igbo people in the country, has describd…
Traders Shut Down Ladipo Market
Following the notice to close down the popular Ladipo spare parts market in Mushin by the Lagos State government, over…
Fuel Subsidy Removal: Students Warn Of Massive Revolt
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) says it will massively go against the Federal Government on the removal of…
NGO Seeks Better Deal For The Elderly
Mr. Tunde Babs-Olurinde, Executive Chairman, Skindudu Aged Foundation, says there is an urgent need for the younger generation to imbibe…
Nigeria’s Steel Consumption Below World Standard
Mr. Alex Ohikere, the Acting Director-General of the National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA), says the country’s per capita…
‘Don’t Remove Subsidy On Petroleum Products’
A former Commissioner for Agriculture in Delta, Mr. Jerry Ossai, has urged the Federal Government to reconsider the reported plan…
Avoid Provocative Acts, Cleric Advises Christians
Monsignor Cletus Gotan, Parish Priest, Church of Immaculate Conception, Zaramaganda, Jos, has advised Christians to shun provocative acts that could…
2 Nigerians Win African Bankers Awards
Two Nigerian banks and two Nigerians have emerged winners of the 2011 African Bankers awards being organised by the African…
Gully Erosion Threatens Houses In Egbe-Idimu
Residents of Juba Street at Egbe-Idimu in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State on Sunday raised an alarm…
Federation Cup: Dutch Coach Proud Of Heartland
Head Coach of Heartland Football Club of Owerri, Lodewijk De Kruif, has expressed confidence in his side as the Owerri-based…
3SC Players Boycott Training
Efforts by the management of Shooting Stars Sports Club, 3SC, of Ibadan to make the soccer team regain their lost…
Governor’s Cup: ITF Closes Entries 29 September
International Tennis Federation, ITF, has given all players wishing to take part in the 11th edition of the Governor’s Cup…