Year: 2012
Liberia Tie: Eagles’ Call Up Excites NPL Stars
Bassey Ezekiel, Gomo Onduku and Tony Okpotu are over the moon after they were named among 23 Nigerian home-grown players…
Nigeria’s Supreme Court Gets 2 New Judges
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja In sustenance of efforts to entrench a threshold of viable judiciary that will command public confidence,…
Conflict And Insurgency In Nigeria: Impact On Dev. Prospects And Nationhood
By Obadiah Mailafia With a population of 165 million, Nigeria is Africa’s largest country in terms of demographic size. With…
Patriotism On The Wane
BY ISAAC ASABOR As a child in primary school and as a teenager in the secondary school in the then…
Who Bears The Brunt Of Striking Teachers?
On Monday, teachers in Lagos State public primary and secondary schools embarked on an indefinite strike over the state government’s…
Tools That Matter(2)
Weather wear I remember clearly what it was like, training in very cold weather. I attended a Leadership and…
Senators Ask Jonathan To Appeal ICJ Judgment On Bakassi
Members of the Nigerian Senate on Wednesday morning asked the Federal Government to urgently file an appeal against the judgment…
Cameroon police arrest 5 men with severed head
Authorities in Cameroon have arrested five persons suspected of trafficking in human body parts after they were discovered at a…
Lessons I Learnt From US Convention — Ikuforiji
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has said that his attendance of the three-day national convention…
Assembly Confirms Fashola’s Nominee For Water Regulatory Agency
The Lagos State House of Assembly has confirmed the appointment of Mrs. Basirat Tanwa Koya as the Executive Secretary for…
Eto’o meets Cameroon PM over playing for Lions
To play or not to play again for Indomitable Lions of Cameroon? It is a big question that many Cameroonian…
Suspect in ESUT’s VC kidnap arrested
One of the suspected kidnappers of Professor Cyprian Onyeji, the Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Technology (ESUT),…
Yishawu Explains Support For Unicameral Legislature
The suggestion by the national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for a unicameral legislature…
Be Fair In Shop Allocation, Lawmaker Tells Council
The Chairman, House Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Olanrewaju Oshun,…
Lagos radio seeks to ease city’s monstrous traffic
The body remained by the roadside after an armed robbery, but Tunmise Oladapo-Kuku was ready to help as drivers manoeuvred…
Judgement date in IBB’s $12.4 billion oil windfall
A Federal High Court in Abuja will give a verdict 23 November on the controversial $12.4 billion oil windfall that…
Tycoon offers $65m to marry off gay daughter
Are you an eligible bachelor ready to marry? Can you play a lovey-dovey and win the heart of a 33…
LASAA adopts Skype to boost service delivery
After trials spanning over four weeks involving its Human Resources, Client Services and Business Development Departments, Lagos State Signage and…
At UN, Jonathan condemns denigration of religious beliefs
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Tuesday in New York condemned the deliberate denigration of the religious beliefs of others, warning that…
Soccer: English League Cup results
Man City 2 -4 Aston Villa Chelsea 6- 0 Wolves Crawley 2- 3 Swansea Leeds 2-1 Everton Bradford 3-2 Burton…
Reps Condemn Saudi’s Detention of Nigeria’s Female Pilgrims
Members of Nigeria’s lower chamber, the House of Representatives on Tuesday condemned the continued detention of 400 Nigerian female pilgrims…
SWF: Court Gives Further Room For Settlement
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The case instituted at the Supreme Court by Nigeria’s 36 states challenging the legality of the…
Volume, turnover up at NSE
The volume of shares traded on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) appreciated by 60 per cent on Tuesday, with turnover…
Official: Only 71 private jets in Nigeria
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Contrary to media reports that there are more than 100 private jets in Nigeria, the Nigerian Civil…
Labaran Maku bows to Nigerian Senate
Labaran Maku, Nigeria’s Minister of Information has eaten the humble pie as he apologised to the Senate over his comments…
Fashola gets Sports Festival torch from VP Sambo
Nigeria’s Vice President Namadi Sambo, on Tuesday received on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan the ‘Torch of Unity’, signaling the…
Honest Abuja taxi driver gets his reward
Mr Imeh Usuah, a taxi driver, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International, Abuja, on Tuesday emerged the winner of the Securities…
Mikel Obi gets Liberia call-up
Stephen Keshi, the Head Coach of the Super Eagles, on Tuesday bowed to pressure from Nigerians by inviting Chelsea midfielder…
Ogun state sets up body on football
The Commissioner of Sports in Ogun State, Mr Olugbenga Otenuga,on Tuesday in Abeokuta inaugurated an 11-man advisory committee to support…