Year: 2012
Lagos Schools Set For 4th Tertiary Games
The organisers of the Lagos Tertiary Games say the participating institutions have started preparation ahead of the championship which runs…
MasterCard, Flying Dove Partner On e-Payment
Global payment card company, MasterCard has entered a partnership with Flying Dove, the authorised distributors for Sony Corporation in Nigeria,…
Google, LG To Announce New Nexus Phone
Google and LG are reportedly preparing to launch a Nexus smartphone modelled on the Optimus G. Like the Optimus G,…
Etisalat’s CCO Highlights Strategies To Transform Telecoms Sector
Etisalat Nigeria’s Chief Commercial Officer, Mr. Wael Ammar, has highlighted strategies for transforming the telecommunications industry in the face of…
COSON, Cool FM Settle Royalty Issues
Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), the nation’s sole government approved collective management organisation for musical works and sound recordings has…
Airtel Gets Best Human Resources Practice Award
The apex regulatory body of Human Resources practice in Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), has honoured Airtel…
President Jonathan appoints committee on floods
President Goodluck Jonathan today approved the establishment of a National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation to raise funds in…
Nigeria mulls buying back Bakassi from Cameroon
As the deadline for Nigeria’s legal appeal over Bakassi Peninsula’s cession to Cameroon expires, Nigeria’s justice minister and attorney general,…
Flood: Jonathan gives Nigerian states N13.3 billion
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE President Goodluck Jonathan this morning announced that some states of the federation including Lagos, which have been ravaged…
Nobel laureate slams Liberian leader over corruption
Leymah Gbowee, the social worker who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Monday…
Hollywood actor DeVito divorces wife
Diminutive US comic actor Danny DeVito has separated from his wife of 30 years Rhea Perlman, his spokesman said Monday,…
President Jonathan addresses Nigerians Tuesday
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will give a nationwide simulcast Tuesday morning by 7 a.m, his office announced today. This will…
In Pictures:Jonathan decorates service chiefs with new ranks
In the photo here: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONTHAN (R) ASSISTED BY VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO (L) IN DECORATING THE CHIEF OF…
Army in revenge killings after patrol vehicle bombed
Nigerian soldiers indiscriminately fired on residents of Maiduguri, Borno state Monday, killing several people, after a bomb blast targetted an…
Senate Applauds NNPC on Gas Infrastructure
The Senate Committee on Gas Resources on Monday gave high marks to the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,…
Court Grants Journalist N100M For Assault
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nearly three years after being assaulted and battered by men of the Nigerian Police Force and…
4 more suspects face trial over fuel subsidy fraud
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has concluded arrangement to arraign another set of suspects in the on going…
Azarenka On Top, Serena No. 3 In WTA Rankings
American player Serena Williams rose to the Number 3 spot in the WTA rankings Monday, dropping Agnieszka Radwanska down a…
Delta State: Axis of Kidnappers
Delta is ill-reputed as the state with the highest concentration of kidnappers per square kilometre. But why? He was on…
My Experience In Kidnappers’ Den, By Victim
A victim of kidnapping who wants his identity hidden for security reasons, narrates his unpleasant three-day experience in the hands…
Kidnapping Not Rampant In Delta State
Paul Odili, Manager, Communication/Adviser to Governor Uduaghan, told JETHRO IBILEKE that kidnapping is not on the rise in Delta state.…
Calabar: Lesbians Reign
Lesbianism finds a fertile ground in Calabar Mrs. Janet Ishi of Orok Orok Street, Calabar, capital of Cross River State,…
Biafra War: Igbo Leaders Deceived Their People, says Ofeimun
Poet, literary and social critic Mr Odia Ofeimun has said Biafran war leaders should be sent to the Nuremberg Trial…
Robbers Kill Supol, Inspector
Armed robbers, in the early hours of today, killed two police officers, Inspector Haruna and Supol Funminiyi, an Assistant Superintendent…
Okada Riders Protest Ban On 475 Roads
Thousands of commercial motorcycle riders known as okada riders in Lagos State, Southwest today protested against the Lagos State Road…
4 Suspected Kidnappers Docked
Four suspected kidnappers have been arrested and arraigned before a Lagos court in southwest Nigeria after the police foiled their…
MURDER OF 4 VARSITY STUDENTS: Manhunt For Villagers
Following the gruesome murder of four male students of the University of Port Harcourt last Friday by the Vigilance group…
Actor Chidi Mokeme Returns, As Season 9 Of GUS Begins
Nine years after he dazzled millions of television viewers as the first host of the debut edition of Gulder Ultimate…
Cultists Kill Poly Student
In what appeared to be a resurgence of cult activities in Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, a middle-aged man alleged to…
Apprentice Wins Glo’s Promo Car
The 2012 edition of Ofala Festival ended in a grand style on Saturday, at the palace of the Obi of…