Year: 2012
KSA’s 66th Birthday Celebration Kicks Off
As the King of World Beats, Otunba Sunday Ishola Adeniyi Adegeye clocks 66 on 22 September, triple events have been…
Sunday Oyinlola Set For New Album
One of the masters of the old school juju music, Champion Sunday Oyinlola is currently in the studio recording a…
Aditu Ara Out With New Album
Ebun Oloyede Omidiora a.k.a Aditu Ara Glorious has released an album titled: Breakthrough at last. The six-track album, according to…
Was Jesus married? New evidence says so
Four words on a previously unknown papyrus fragment provide the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus had been…
Anti-Islam movie: Pakistani protesters torch cinemas
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Sept 21, 2012 (AFP) – Angry demonstrators set fire to two cinemas in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar…
Woods, Rose share lead at PGA championship
Tiger Woods and England’s Justin Rose each fired four-under par 66s on Thursday to share the lead after the first…
Liverpool win thriller as Spurs, Newcastle held
Liverpool nearly paid the price for fielding a near second-string side for their Europa League Group A opener with Swiss…
2 Boko Haram commanders killed, 8 members arrested
Nigerian soldiers in the special anti-terrorist force in Maiduguri, Borno State said Thursday they killed two senior commanders of Islamist…
Nigerian woman divorces talkative husband
A 38-year-old Nigerian housewife, Mrs Mariam Adunni of Omoda Area, Ilorin,Kwara state has been granted her wish by the town’s…
Jonathan suspends Sanusi’s N5000 super currency
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to suspend the proposed introduction of the N5,000 notes,…
NB Plc soars in bullish trading
The bullish run on the Nigerian equity market continued today with the NSE All- share index (ASI) recording its eighteenth…
Thousands Stranded As Protest Grounds Arik Flights
Thousands of Arik Air passengers were stranded today nationwide at Nigerian airports as aviation workers grounded Nigeria’s largest airline over…
Religious intolerance global phenomenon, reveals study
Restrictions on religion were growing worldwide by mid-2010, even in Western countries with traditionally few limits on the practice of…
Abducted Cameroonian prince freed in Bakassi
A Cameroonian traditional prince and his companion kidnapped last month on the country’s volatile Bakassi peninsula have been freed, security…
Kenya appoints new interior minister
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Thursday appointed Katoo Ole Metito as the country’s new internal security minister, following the death…
France bans anti-Islam movie protests
Paris police have banned two demonstrations planned for Saturday, including one in front of the city’s Grand Mosque, to protest…
N5000: NBA Calls For Sanusi’s Sack
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, on Thursday in Abuja, continued its criticisms on the proposed N5,000…
7-Up Manager Dies In Hotel Room
The Human Resources Manager of 7-Up Bottling Company at its Benin City plant, Mr. Sola Mosiko, has collapsed and died…
Eleme Youths Block Onne Ports
Business activities in the oil and gas industry in the oil-rich Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, were disrupted today, as thousands…
2 Nabbed For Kidnapping Poly Girl
Two suspected kidnappers, Kehinde Adeyemo, 31, and his accomplice called Tunde, 26, are being interrogated by the police at Pen…
Pregnant Woman, Hubby, Kids Die In Crash
A ghastly motor accident that occurred at Ubulu-Okiti Junction, along the Benin Onitsha expressway, near Asaba on Wednesday claimed the…
65 Hoodlums Sent To Prison
The Special Court in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos Southwest Nigeria, has sent 65 hoodlums to prison for constituting public nuisance. The…
Three Bank Officials May Go To Prison
In a bid to enforce an order of a federal high court alleged to have been disobeyed by a commercial…
Insurance Directors Sued To Court Over N600b Loan
An insurance company, Koguna Babura Insurance Brokers Limited has dragged its Managing Director, Ibikunle Taiwo and the Executive Director, Finance,…
Marijuana And The Challenge Of Curbing Crimes
By Rasak Musbau P.J.O Rourke, U.S. writer and humorist, once said that, ‘Marijuana is … self-punishing’. It makes you acutely …
State Police Cannot Be Wished Away (I)
By Rima Amadi Nigeria desperately needs to start enjoying the benefits associated with state, municipal and city autonomous and independent…
Who Will Rescue The Aviation Industry?
Nigeria’s aviation industry seems to be in disarray and the recommendation on Wednesday by the Senate Committee on Aviation to…
Lagos, Repton Boxers At War
The battle lines are drawn as the much-anticipated Lagos ABA Versus Repton Boys Club of London International Amateur Boxing Tournament…
Eko Football Festival: Robson, Radebe, Others Hit Lagos
Organisers of Eko Football Festival are working round the clock to receive former Manchester United of England player, Bryan Robson,…
Okocha Is My Role Model
Sylvester Chikezie is a player of Handsworth Football Club that won last year’s Ogun State Challenge Cup. He spoke with…