Month: January 2012
108 Persons Die In Road Accidents
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) says 108 persons died in road accidents in Plateau last year, while 1,488 others…
Let’s Protest Against Boko Haram —Seriki Hausawa
Seriki Hausawa of Lagos State, Alhaji Aminu Idris Yaro has called on Nigerians to embark on public demonstrations against the…
Police Kill 4 Boko Haram Suspects
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO), says four suspected Boko Haram members believed to have been…
Lagos Rugby League Kicks Off In April
Friends of Rugby has concluded plans to organise Lagos Rugby Union League. The league is expected to kick off in…
Nigeria To Play More Int’l Tourneys In 2012
The secretary of the Nigeria Table Tennis Federation, NTTF, Segun Oguntade, has assured Nigerians that the body will increase its…
Players Jostle For Slots Ahead Of AJC In Abuja
Thirty four selected players from the Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF)’s trials yesterday resumed camping for the 2012 Africa Junior Tennis…
War Is Imminent In Nigeria But God Forbid —Joe Igbokwe
I am writing this piece strictly as Joe Igbokwe and I am speaking strictly for myself only. I was born…
Jonathan’s New Year Burden Gift To Nigerians —Lajuwon Lasisi
Consider this, “my people perish because of lack of knowledge”, which simply means people never learn from history, however recent…
Nigeria’s Rulers Reap Rewards Of Corruption —Alex Perry
The killing of more than 178 people by Islamic militants in a series of attacks on state buildings in the…
Probe Death Of Journalist In Kano
The dead toll is still rising by the day in the wake of the senseless attacks unleashed on Kano, the…
Nigeria’s Ex-Speaker, Nafada Have Case To Answer —EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 23rd, 2012, told an FCT High Court, sitting in Abuja ,…
Boko Haram: NLC Wants Security Re-organised
The Nigeria Labour Congress has asked Federal Government to come up with far reaching actions that can help in combating…
Fresh Fear In Kano As Police Discover More Explosives
The latest discovery of abandoned explosives in parts of Kano city, Northwest Nigeria, confirms the fear that the Boko Haram…
Senator Mark: We Shall Fight Boko Haram With The Law
It may be the end of the road for Boko Haram and other terrorist organisations in Nigeria as leaders of…
Bill To Recognise NFF Is On Course –Gaiya
The chairman, House Committee on Sports, Godfrey Gaiya, says there is no cause for alarm over the latest court ruling…
Bayelsa Poll: Fresh legal suit complicates the knots
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A fresh suit was on Monday filed at the Abuja Federal High Court against the nomination…
Boko Haram Bombings: Igbos Flee Kano
Following Friday’s coordinated bombings of parts of Kano, which left over 160 people dead, southerners, especially Igbos, living in Sabon…
2 Cops Paraded With 9 Robbery Suspects
Two dismissed police officers, Igba Isaac, 33 and Abya Chashe, 36, have been arrested and paraded with their nine-man suspected…
Girl Forced Into Prostitution Pays N150,000 Monthly
The police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have rescued a 13-year old girl in a hotel room at Otta, Ogun…
Syria Rejects Arab League Peace Plan
Faced with the failure of its observer mission to curb the violence in Syria as the stark features of a…
Hungry Man Sent To Prison For Stealing N20 Onion
A 33-year-old man, Opeyemi Ayomide, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria and later charged before…
1700 Days In Office: Fashola Promises 217 Roads
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has promised to build and rehabilitate at least 217 inner roads this year, saying…
Soyinka, Bakare, Boyo, Others Tackle Corruption
Nigerians this morning gathered at the Central Business District area of Alausa, Lagos state, South-west Nigeria to discuss the current…
ACN Asks Jonathan To Withdraw Soldiers From Lagos
The Lagos state chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has for the umpteenth asked President Jonathan to order his…
‘NFF Should Go Now’
Former Green Eagles player, Adokie Amasiemeka and ex-chairman of the Nigeria Premier League, Oyuiki Obaseki, have advised the Nigeria Football…
Lagos Junior League: Mainland Suffer Setback
Lagos Mainland failed to live up to expectations following their 1-4 loss to Ikorodu West in the match played on…
Lagos Junior League: Nath Boys Humble Lagos Island
Nathaniel Boys confirmed their supremacy after they defeated their counterparts, Lagos Island East 4-1 in one of the Lagos Junior…
Dr Abati And The ‘Crossover’ Syndrome —Tayo Ogunbiyi
In most African countries, the government is often far away from the governed. Hence, it is not uncommon to find…
The Revolution That Will Certainly Be! —Peter Claver Oparah
In the wake of the truncation and brutal abortion of what should be regarded as Nigeria’s brightest opportunity to shake…
Fiddling While The Nation Burns
The call on President Goodluck Jonathan to sanitise his cabinet has become too urgent for him to ignore in the…