Year: 2012
Nigeria Becomes Longest Market For Guinness Globally
Guinness Nigeria Plc, a leading brewing company and subsidiary of Diageo Plc, has become the number one market for the…
Youth Sent To Prison For Dumping Lover
A 20-year old man, Ogunma Sunday, has been arrested by the police and charged before Cele Magistrate’s Court in Lagos,…
Elcomserve Unveils First Message Beep
Elcomserve Nigeria, a 21st century network of professional security, telecommunication and fire protection consultants and engineers, has launched Nigeria’s first…
Olympic Milk Powers Community Games
All is set for the kick-off of the maiden edition of the Community Games powered by Olympic Milk from the…
Ola Vincent For Burial Thursday
The late Ola Vincent, former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, is to be buried on Thursday at…
ACN tells PDP to forget Offa council
The Action Congress of Nigeria has advised the People’s Democratic Party to banish from its thoughts the hope of ever regaining political…
UK retailers gained nothing from Olympics
The London 2012 Olympic Games failed to lift the British retailers, who suffered last month as Britons stayed at home…
Man charged with assault on king
A middle-aged man, Sunday Akinseye, was on Monday arraigned before an Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting a traditional ruler.…
7 Ekiti pilgrims fail Quranic test
The Ekiti State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board has disqualified seven intending pilgrims to this year’s Hajj for failing a test.…
Petrol scarcity: NNPC warns against panic buying
As long queues for fuel resurfaced in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, the management of NNPC said it has 30…
Chadian rebel chief surrenders
Chad’s FPR rebel chief Abdel Kader Baba Ladde has surrendered to the Central African army and arrived in the capital…
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US Open: Last 8 women standing
Quarter-finals line-up in the women’s singles at the US Open (x denotes seeding): Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) v Samantha Stosur…
Odemwingie happy for West Brom choice
Nigerian striker Peter Odemwingie admits he is glad boss Steve Clarke persuaded him to stay at West Bromwich Albion after…
UK varsity plans legal action over visa status
A London university on Monday announced it was launching legal action over the government’s decision to revoke its right to…
NURTW backs Lagos Traffic Law
The new Lagos Road Traffic Law Monday garnered more support from stakeholders in the transport sector as the National Union…
Hajj Commission to issue free SIM cards
The National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) is to issue free SIM cards to all intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year,…
Pastor jailed for stealing $20 sheep
An Ilorin Magistrates’ Court on Monday sentenced a pastor, Oloruntoba Ibitoye, to nine months imprisonment for stealing a sheep. According…
Shell announces completion of block sale in Nigeria
Shell said Monday it has completed the sale of its share of an onshore oil block in Nigeria’s Niger Delta…
Shell shuts leaking pipeline
A Shell pipeline taking crude oil to a processing station in Nigeria’s Rivers state was closed after a leak was…
Cholera kills 348 in S/Leone, Guinea
A cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone which was declared a national emergency in mid-August has claimed 244 lives and affected…
Patience Jonathan: Aso Rock Keeps Mum Over Health
Aso Rock, the seat of government in Nigeria, kept mum Monday over the whereabouts of Patience Faka, the wife of…
Woman Bites Off Policeman’s Ear
A 36-year old woman, Mrs. Gloria Ugonnaya, has been arraigned before a Yaba Magistrate’s court in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, charged…
Man Caught Stealing Car Blames God
A man who was caught attempting to steal a Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, during church service at an Anglican Church…
Robbers In Military Uniform Kill Petrol Station Attendant
Armed men dressed in military uniform invaded a petrol station in Calabar on Friday, at about 10am and shot dead…
Traffic Law: Okada Riders Beg For Time
Following the ban on okada riders from plying 475 roads in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, some commercial motorcycle operators, also…
Pregnant Woman, 4 Others Nabbed For Robbery
Members of a three-man robbery gang that operate in Lagos and Ogun states, southwest Nigeria have been arrested by men…
Nollywood Actress Dies
Fast rising Nollywood actress, Seun Ogunlade has died, P.M.NEWS can report. The actress, who is more known in the Yoruba…
Shell Sells Oil Block For $102m
Shell said Monday it has completed the sale of its share of an onshore oil block in southern Nigeria to…
Sun Myung Moon, Self-professed Messiah Dies
Sun Myung Moon, a self-professed messiah who claimed millions of religious followers in his Unification Church and sought to become…
Lagos state appoints new accountant-general
Mr Babatunde Fashola, governor of Nigeria’s Lagos state, has approved the appointment of Mr David Olabanji Adewale Sunmoni as the…