Year: 2012
Court Orders CBN To Declare Cash, Assets Seized From Cecilia Ibru
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, this morning ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to declare…
Crisis Looms As Tokyo Tackles Ajimobi
The face-off between the estranged Chairman of the National Road Transport Worker, (NURTW), Oyo State Chapter, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola alias…
Corruption Rating: TI, Activists Slam Jonathan
Nigerian activists have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to apologise to the citizens of the country for deliberately distorting information on…
Sanitation: Hoodlums Attack Local Govt Boss
The chairman of Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Babatunde Oke, was reportedly attacked by hoodlums wielding dangerous…
Why Does The North Rage Against Jonathan?
BY BEN NANAGHAN It has become a common and regular feature of the Northern elite to challenge President Goodluck Jonathan…
As Kidnappers Go For High Profile Victims
Barely a week after a hotelier, Segun Oyebolu, was abducted in Ogun State and his captors demanded for N400 million…
Governor’s Cup: We Are Ready — Tournament Director
Tournament Director of the 12th Annual Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis Open, Prince Wale Oladunjoye, says the Local Organising Committee, LOC,…
Junior Gov Cup: Joseph, Others To Represent Lagos State
Ahead of the Junior Governor’s Cup in Lagos, two players each, from male and female categories have been selected to…
Lagos Plans Academy For Junior Stars
Tennis Special can report that the Lagos State Tennis Association is planning to build a tennis academy for young and…
Sidmach Tech Launches Portal For WAEC Results Verification
Sidmach Technologies Nigeria Limited has developed West African Examinations Council (WAEC) online result verification portal that allow people in any…
Apple’s CEO Admits Errors In Map Apps
Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, has apologised for the company’s error-ridden new mobile mapping service and pledged to improve…
BlackBerry Sales Drop Worldwide
Shipments of its BlackBerry smartphones fell in the quarter ended September 1 as Research In Motion posted its third straight…
Bharti Airtel Appoints Ezekwesili As Director
Former World Bank Vice President For Africa, Ms Obiageli Katryn Ezekwesili has been appointed director in Bharti Airtel following restructuring…
BA Celebrates With Nigeria, Charges Lower Fare To London
This is certainly the best of times for air travellers in Nigeria. Only a few months after British Airways rolled…
Iran’s currency plunges 17 per cent in one day
TEHRAN(AFP)Iran’s currency plummeted at least 17 percent in trading on Monday, according to media and an online exchange website, severely…
Ex-Speaker Na’Abba: Obasanjo destroyed Nigeria’s democracy
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Former Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Alhaji Ghali Umar Na’Abba declared in Kano that former President Olusegun…
79,000 Persons Displaced By Disasters In Cross River
EMMA UNA/ Calabar Persistent battering of Cross River State by climate change disasters have left over 79,000 persons displaced in…
Personnel movement in Nigeria’s aviation agencies
Aviation Minister Appoints New Directors, Re-organises Agencies Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, has reorganised aviation…
US Supreme Court hears Ogoni case against Shell
The US Supreme Court has begun its new session by re-examining a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria alleging…
Boko Haram leader warns over anti-Islam movie
The suspected leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect, has issued a threat in a YouTube video over a US-made anti-Islam…
18.2 million Europeans jobless
Jobless numbers shot up to a record 18.2 million in the eurozone in August, official data showed Monday after a…
‘Imperfect’ Schwarzenegger admits adultery
LOS ANGELES(AFP) – Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted he had multiple affairs during his doomed 25-year marriage to Maria Shriver, but said…
Henry Okah’s trial begins in South Africa
On a day that Nigeria is marking its 52nd independence anniversary, Henry Okah, the man suspected to have confined President…
Jonathan vows to battle endemic corruption
Eromosele Ebhomele President Goodluck Jonathan this morning promised that his administration would not tolerate corruption which he described as endemic…
Ibinabo Fiberesima, Ras Kimono honored
Bayo Adetu/ Entertainment correspondent Newly elected national president of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Ibinabo Fiberesima and Raggae music…
Jonathan: Nigeria making steady progress
AN ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR, ON THE OCCASION OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY ANNIVERSARY ON MONDAY, 1STOCTOBER, 2012…
Lagos police boss seeks reforms
The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Umar Manko, has contended that the absence of sustainable logistics and over centralisation…
Untold story of AbdulMutallab, the underwear bomber
7 Actions News investigator, Scott Lewis has revealed new insights about Nigeria’s failed Underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. Lewis…
Taekwondo: Ivory Coast, Niger expected at Chukwumerije tourney
Athletes from Cote d’Ivoire and Niger Republic are among the hundreds of participants that will compete at the 1st Chika…
Shell locks in 150k of oil barrels per day
Shell said Sunday it had shut down a key pipeline damaged by fire after what was suspected to be an…