Year: 2012
Keshi’s Job On The Line, Vows To Quit If Eagles Lose To Liberia
In a bid to revive Nigeria’s football fortunes after the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, failed to qualify…
I’m Not Ashamed To Be A Gymnast
While many Nigerian youths would prefer to be involved in sports like football, Basketball, Table Tennis and Athletics, but for…
Team Ogun Read Riot Act To Athletes
Any athlete that violate any of the camp rules and directives will be sent packing from the camp of team…
U-18 B/Ball Tourney: Umar Defends NBBF
President of Nigeria Basketball Federation, NBBF, Tijani Umar has debunked rumours making their rounds that Nigeria withdrew from taking part…
Lawmaker Commends Fashola Over Electrification Of Somolu
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Works and Infrastructure, Rotimi Olowo, has commended the state government for…
Assemblymen Lament Poor Preparation
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on inspection tour of facilities provided by the state for the oncoming…
Wife of slain Nigeria’s assembly man to run in bye-election
Mrs Kaneng Fulani, wife to the late occupant of the Barkin Ladi constituency seat, Gyang Fulani, has been endorsed as…
Bankers Committee backs super N5000 note
Nigeria’s Bankers Committee on Tuesday endorsed the introduction of N5,000 note by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), saying “it…
Nigeria offers to help Zimbabwe conduct fair elections
Nigeria, the butt of international derision for successive poor national elections, until the 2011 polls, has offered to assist Zimbabwe,…
Punctuality earns Edo school boy laptop computer
A 12-year-old Junior Secondary School student, Godbless Raphael, on Tuesday won the Edo Governor’s award for being the first to…
Ogun council workers begin warning strike
Workers of local councils in Ogun state, western Nigeria will begin Wednesday a three-day warning strike to protest the irregular…
Lagos-Kano rail link to be restored soon
Nigeria’s Federal Government on Tuesday announced that the Lagos- Kano railway line would resume full operations in six weeks after…
Anniversary of 9/11: US Consulate burnt in Benghazi
An armed mob protesting over a film they said offended Islam, attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of…
Nigeria’s insecurity will soon be over, says Police IG
Nigeria’s head of police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, said in Kano on Tuesday that the security challenges in some parts of…
ECOWAS defence chiefs to meet over Mali
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja West Africa’s defence chiefs will hold an extraordinary session in Abidjan from 14 September 2012 to finalise the…
Aregbesola launches taxi scheme for Osun Drivers in Abuja
Governor of Nigeria’s State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has launched a taxi-scheme to empower tax1-operators who are indigenes of…
Motorcyclists pledge to abide by Lagos Trafiic law
Leaders of commercial motorcycle (Okada) operators in Lagos State have pledged to comply with the new Lagos Road Traffic Law…
Ibori’s $15m dollars: Court orders Andy Uba, Claimant probed
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The controversy surrounding claims by a self acclaimed oil magnate, Mr. Chibuike Achigbu, that the alleged…
Strange: Woman gives birth to pony!
ETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Members of World Liberation Ministry located at Evuoriaria Community, off Benin-Sapele Road, Benin City were on Tuesday…
Nigeria’s Poor Healthcare System Wories Medical Expert
Nigeria’s poor healthcare system has been described as alarming, and calls for urgent attention from government at all levels and…
Olaitan: Court Grants Ugolor Bail
Environmental rights activist, Rev. David Ugolor, who was detained in connection with alleged complicity in the murder of Olaitan Oyerinde,…
IG Backs Lagos Traffic Law, Orders Crackdown On Okada Riders
In demonstration of his tacit support for the new Lagos traffic law, the Inspector General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar has…
NDLEA Seizes N294m Heroin In Rugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has seized 24.5 kilogrammes of heroin concealed inside carpets, the agency said early…
Woman Strangles Friend For Snatching Lover
A 58-year old woman, Josephine Jacob, has been arrested and charged to a Lagos court for allegedly strangling her friend,…
Air Nigeria Passengers Abandoned In UK
Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim’s airline, Air Nigeria, has allegedly abandoned many Nigerian passengers in the United Kingdom, those abandoned told P.M.NEWS…
Egyptian Maths Teacher Petitions Kano Gov, Education Minister
An Egyptian mathematics teacher, Mohamed Ahmed Taha Younes, has sent a petition to Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwanso and Minister…
National Honours’ List, An Embarrassment’
Nigerians have described the list of 149 nominees released for this year’s National Honours Award by President Goodluck Jonathan as…
FirstBank Holds EGM
In compliance with a recent court order, First Bank of Nigeria Plc will hold an Extra-Ordinary General Meeting (EGM) on…
Nigerian Banks Unreliable —Suru Group Boss
The Group Managing Director of Suru Group of Companies, Mr. Edward Akinlade, has passed a vote of no confidence on…
Ondo State: Loyalty, Psycho Politics And Media Criers
By Dimeji Daniels The dictionary defines loyalty as the state or quality of being loyal; faithfulness to commitments or obligations…