Month: January 2012
New Lawmakers Keep Lagos Assembly Strong
Within the first year of the seventh session of the Lagos State House of Assembly, the House has continued to…
Lagos Assembly Assures Of Rapid Completion Of Health Sector Projects
Chairman, Committee on Health Services, Lagos State House of Assembly, Suru Avoseh, has said that the state Ministry of Health…
Woman Remanded For Cutting Co-tenant’s Face With Blade
A 23-year-old housewife, Mrs. Angela Nzea, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of using…
Housemaid Jailed 4 Years For Drugging Mistress, Stealing N6m Jewellery
An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced a housemaid, Janet Phillip, to three years and six months imprisonment…
Police Nab Suspect, Recover Car, Arms
A team of anti-robbery Policemen attached to Victoria Island Police Station have arrested a suspected robber who attempted to steal…
5 Robbery Suspects Held
Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five robbery suspects in an…
Settle With ASUU Now, Students Urge Jonathan
As the nationwide strike embarked upon by organised labour ended following President Goodluck Jonathan’s reduction of fuel pump price to…
NANS Failed Students —DSRIC
The Defence for Students Rights Initiative Concern (DSRIC), a students’ group has berated the leadership of the National Association of…
Ojodu Grammar School Titans Re-Unite
The 1998 old students of Ojodu Grammar School (now Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School) recently held what they described as…
UNILAG Postpones Convocation
Authorities of the University of Lagos, Akoka, have postponed the school’s convocation ceremony, earlier scheduled to hold yesterday and today,…
Nina, A Success Story Of Lagos Governor’s Cup
Prince Wale Oladunjoye has described the feat recorded by Russian Nina Bratchikova in the first round of the ongoing Australian…
Ahead World Team Table Tennis Tourney: Omotosho Charges Team Nigeria
The vice president of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, NTTF, Alhaji Abdulwahab Omotosho has charged Nigerian team players that will…
Robbers Steal SUV, N20m
Armed robbers have raided the residence of Alhaji Ibrahim Rasak and robbed him of his Infinity SUV marked FN 520…
2 NYSC Members Kidnapped, Police Arrest Two Suspects
Unidentified gunmen on Monday night kidnapped two serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Rivers State. It…
ACN Condemns Jonathan’s Comments About Lagos, Seeks Apology
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has condemned a published statement credited to President Goodluck Jonathan in which he seemed…
Religious Leaders Call For Withdrawal Of Soldiers From Lagos Streets
Religious leaders in Lagos State Tuesday described as unacceptable the deployment of soldiers on the streets of Lagos since Monday…
SNG Set To Drag Fed. Govt To Court Over Excess N1.3tr Spent On Fuel Subsidy
Save Nigeria Group (SNG) says it has concluded plans to drag the Federal Government before the court to compel an…
RMD Survives Auto Crash
Popular Nollywood actor and Commissioner for Youths and Tourism in Delta State, Richard Mofe-Damijo survived an auto crash a few…
Man Kills Girlfriend’s Brother
The police in Ogun State have begun a manhunt for an apprentice herbalist simply known as Abiodun who allegedly led…
Jonathan’s Soldiers Still Occupy Lagos
Despite public outcry , soldiers still occupy major roads and highways in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. President Goodluck Jonathan had…
Money Laundering: Lagos Speaker’s Arraigment Stalled
The arraignment of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji and his Personal Assistant, Oyebode…
Activists Thumb Down Labour
Human rights activists and members of civil society groups have said the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and the Trade Union…
How Govt Scared Labour To Call Off Strike
Leaders of organised labour led by Abdulwaheed Omar, President of Nigeria Labour Congress, emerged from the meeting room where they…
Police Kill 2 Suspected Robbers
Police in Funtua Local Government Area of Katsina State on Monday shot and killed two suspected armed robbers along Funtua-Zaria…
Fuel Subsidy Protest Victim Alive
Contrary to recent media reports that policemen on Lagos Island shot and killed a protester in Obalende during the nationwide…
NIC Orders Labour, Govt To Report 9 Feb.
The National Industrial Court (NIC) on Monday, ordered the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) to report in court on…
NOA Commends Residents During NLC Protests
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Plateau on Monday commended residents of the state over their peaceful conduct throughout the…
Banks’ Stringent Conditions Delay Release Of Govt Fund
The Nigerian Chamber of Shipping (NCS), says conditions laid down by banks constitute some of the factors inhibiting the disbursement…
Fashola Seeks Withdrawal Of Soldiers
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Monday called for the immediate withdrawal of soldiers from the streets, as…
Strike Suspension: Tourism Operators Count Losses
Tourism operators in Lagos on Monday lamented that the just-suspended nationwide strike completely grounded the subsector. They told the News…