Month: January 2012
Christian Is New Glo Ambassador
Christian Doherty, the winner of Season 3 of Glo Naija Sings, the popular reality TV music show, has signed the…
Blue Pictures Plans Big For 2012
With the success recorded by hit movies such as The Return of Jenifa and Mirror Boy at various cinemas across…
Attempt To Kill Obama: Man Pleads Not Guilty
An Idaho man accused of firing shots at the White House pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that he tried…
9ice Reunites With Friends At Birthday Gig
Recently, award-winning singer, 9ice, clocked 32. And he was hosted to a lavish gig at the monthly ‘Industrial Nite’ held…
I’ll Repay QPR Boss For His Faith In Me —Taiwo
AC Milan left-back Taye Taiwo has completed his loan move to QPR in the Premier for the rest of the…
Court Ruling: We Won’t Stop League Matches —NPL Scribe
The uncertainty whether Premier League matches will continue due to the judgement of Justice Donatus Okorowa of the Abuja Federal…
Our Target For Flamingoes Is World Cup —Green
Still in the excitement of winning the first competitive game in 2012 when the Flamingoes beat Kenyan girls 2-0 in…
Soldiers Leave Lagos Streets
Soldiers who were deployed by President Goodluck Jonathan to crush protests in Lagos against the removal of fuel subsidy have…
158 Suspected Boko Haram Members Arrested
A joint military task force in Nigeria arrested 158 suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources…
Benue Governor’s Rival Can’t Prove Allegation In Court
The candidate of All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the April 2011 governorship election in Benue State, Professor Daniel Saror,…
Fresh Bomb Attack In Kano As Victims Get Mass Burial
Another suicide bomber went on the rampage this evening in the city of Kano, Nigeria’s north west as the rebel…
Amuwo Odofin Begins Rehabilitation Of 21 Roads
Amuwo Odofin Local Government is to begin the rehabilitation of 21 roads in the council from Monday with a target…
Lagos Threatens To Shut Mile 12 Market
The Lagos State Government has threatened to shut down the popular Mile 12 Market, Lagos, South West Nigeria over persistent…
Kano Buries The Dead, The wounded bemoan fate
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Even as the Boko Haram Sect and security agencies were still locked in occasional gun duel in Kano,…
Borno Poll: Supreme Court Adjourns for Judgment
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A five- man panel of Nigeria’s Supreme Court has fixed 17 February to deliver judgment on…
Fuel Scarcity Hits Kaduna
Long queues returned to most fillings in Kaduna Tuesday as biting fuel scarcity hits the state. P.M.NEWS discovered that most…
3 Die In Army, Boko Haram Shootout
Residents of Tsamninya, Kano, Kano state, Northwest Nigeria could not enjoy their night rest in the early hours of this…
3 Robbery Suspects Arrested In Hotel Room
Three robbery suspects have been arrested along with a manager of a hotel by policemen from the Igando Police Division…
Nigeria’s Presidential System Wasteful —Soyinka
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has said that the presidential system of government Nigeria is currently practising is wasteful. Prof.…
9 Suspects Escape From Police Cell
The Edo state police command is yet to come to terms with how nine suspected robbers escaped from the Special…
Man Arrested For Threatening Tenant With Pistol
A landlord, who recently returned from the United States with a pistol, has been arrested by the police in Benin…
Money Laundering: Ex-Gov Nnamani’s Case Adjourned Till 4 April
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria this morning adjourned till 4 April the trial of the former…
Imoke Floors Abang For PDP Gov Ticket
The much touted battle for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship ticket in Cross River State between incumbent, Senator Liyel…
Battered Lover Slams N20m Suit On NNPC Official
A businesswoman, Miss Jennifer Broderick, has filed a N20 million suit before an Ikeja High Court in Lagos against her…
Nations Cup: TB Joshua Denies Prophecy Rumour
The Synagogue Church Of All Nations has responded to rumours making the round in media houses and on Facebook about…
Court Ruling: NFF Begs For Dialogue
Things have fallen apart in the Glass House over last Friday’s court ruling, which declared the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF,…
Lagos Inaugurates Boards Of Associations
Thirty seven boards of sports associations in Lagos were inaugurated today at the Indoor Sports Hall of the Molade Okoya-Thomas…
Lagos Recruits Drainage Maintenance Officers
The Lagos State Government has appointed Drainage Maintenance Officers (DMO) in all local governments to ensure maintenance, clearing and dredging…
Workers Barricade PHCN HQ. In Abuja
Members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), on Monday locked all the major gates leading to the PHCN…
Lagos Govt Issues Boycott Order Against Cart Pushers
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has again warned Lagosians not to use cart pushers in the disposal of their…