Year: 2012
UNIPORT shut down after students’ protests
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Authorities of the University Of Port Harcourt have shut down the institution as the protests by students…
Nigerian army denies killing rampage
Nigeria’s army on Tuesday denied killing civilians and burning homes and shops after a bomb attack in the city of…
Liberia Tie: 10 Eagles Train In Calabar
Only 10 players were involved in the Eagles morning training at the UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar on Tuesday. The…
Gombe stops 6 pregnant women from Hajj
The Gombe State Muslims Welfare Board said on Tuesday that it had stopped six pregnant women from performing this year’s…
Flood: Dickson shuts Bayelsa schools
Governor Seriake Dickson of Nigeria’s oil rich Bayelsa on Tuesday ordered the immediate and indefinite closure of all schools in…
U-17 Women’s World Cup: France Stop Ghana
Ghana will have to play for bronze after their hopes of playing in the finals of the 2012 FIFA U-17…
Jonathan presents 2013 budget tomorrow
President Goodluck Jonathan will on 10 October present the 2013 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly (NASS).…
Polio vaccine team attacked, 2 cops killed
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Yet to be identified gunmen have shot dead two police men attached to a team of Polio Immunization…
Port Harcourt 4: Protesting Students Block East-West Road
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Hundreds of students of the University Of Port Harcourt, whose Students Union Week was suspended Monday for…
Flood shuts down Orient Petroleum
Mr Nnaemeka Nwawka, the Managing Director of Orient Petroleum Resources in Aguleri-Otu, Anambra State, on Tuesday said that the premises…
We Suspect The Sudden Interest In Us -Bakassi People
Some Bakassi people have declared that they have accepted their fate following the International Court of Justice ruling of 10 October, 2002…
FLOOD: Ravaged States To Get N17 Billion
President Goodluck Jonathan this morning announced that some states of the federation including Lagos, which have been ravaged by flood,…
POLICE: We’ll Get Killers Of PH Varsity Students
The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Criminal Investigation Department, CID, Rivers State Command, Mr. Sam Okaula has vowed…
Lagos Assembly May Review Traffic Law
The Lagos State House of Assembly may review the impact of the state Road Traffic Law signed recently for implementation…
2 Nigerian Pilgrims Held For Drugs
Two Nigerian pilgrims have been arrested in Saudi Arabia for allegedly being in possession of banned drugs. The pilgrims were…
2012 Felabration Kicks Off
The 2012 edition of Felabration began today at Freedom Park, Lagos Island, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria. The programme kicked off…
LAGOS LG RULING: No Cause For Alarm —ACN
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has reacted to the judgment of the Lagos State Local…
Nigeria: Deaf accused stalls trial for subsidy scam
Nnamdi Felix/ Abuja The planned arraignment of two persons and two companies by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,…
Unions Threaten Aviation Industry
Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah wants to destroy the Aviation industry in the country, the unions in the…
First Bank Holds Customers’ Forum
In a move that demonstrates its commitment to engaging its customers on how best to provide sound and efficient financial…
Corruption scandal at Nigeria Ports
NIGERIA – Once again one senses that internal squabbles for power are more important than service to the customer as…
Man plunges to death from 7th floor
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There was pandemonium at the Federal Secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, southsouth Nigeria, at…
Iponri Community Wants Fashola To Revoke C of O
The Iponri community in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, has appealed to Governor Raji Fashola to revoke the ownership rights granted…
Trafic Law: Lagos Decries Damage To Road Signs
The Lagos State Government has lamented the high rate at which the road signages it erected at strategic roads across…
Media Practice And Political Influence
By ‘Dimeji Daniels It is a fact that there is no impartial media the world over, but the need for…
The Rhodesian Syndrome
Elizabeth Ohene I have been asking myself these past few weeks if I have the Rhodesian Syndrome after all. The…
Ondo Gov Polls: Not A Do or Die Affair
As campaign ahead of the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State heats up, the various alignments, interests and strategies by…
Underrate Liberia At Your Peril
As the countdown to the 13 October Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Nigeria’s Super Eagles and Liberia’s Lone…
Maigari: Nigerian Football Sick
President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Alhaji Aminu Maigari has given a damning verdict that “Nigerian football is sick.”…
‘Gov’s Cup’ll Be Tough’
President, Nigeria Tennis Federation, NTF, Engr. Sani Ndanusa, has said that Nigerian players should expect stiff competition in this year’s…