Year: 2012
End Of Year Review: Fashola, Abesan Cups Reign Supreme
Many grassroots football competitions were held in the third and fourth quarters of this year, but the Babatunde Raji Fashola…
Timson Cup Final Holds Sunday
The final of U-15 Oba Gbolahan Timson Soccer Competition will hold on Sunday at the Sports Complex of University of…
Bolowotan Eye Premier League
Nigeria National League (NNL) club, Bolowotan have set themselves a target of winning promotion to the Premier League at the…
French worker abducted in Northern Nigeria
A group of 30 gunmen who stormed a residence in Rimi, near Katsina in northern Nigeria where expatriate workers were…
Football, Headlines, News, Sports, World News
UEFA: Tough ties for Man U, Real, AC Milan, Barca
. Arsenal too faces Bayern Munich’s daunting Obstacle AC Milan versus Barcelona and Real Madrid versus Manchester United are the…
Jonathan leads FG delegation to Yakowa’s burial today
The Federal Executive Council devoted its weekly meeting on Wednesday to the honour of six victims of last Saturday’s fatal…
China cracks down on religious group
China has arrested more than 800 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect which spread doomsday rumours and challenged…
2 killed in Nigerian bank robbery
Two persons were killed by armed robbers while no fewer than five others sustained injuries during a bank robbery in…
Forex smuggler Arrested in Nigeria With $130k
Operatives of Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, December 19, 2012, arrested a suspected forex smuggler, Bash…
Okada protest: Fashina, 3 others arrested
The Chairman of the Joint Action Forum (JAF), Dr. Dipo Fashina, General Secretary, Mr. Biodun Aremu and members of the…
Principal in virginity test scandal suspended
The Ogun state Government in western Nigeria, on Wednesday waded into the reported case of a Principal, Mrs Olufunke Aladeojebi,…
Nigerian army promotes 113 officers
The Nigerian Army Council has approved the promotion of 22 Brigadier-Generals to the rank of Major-General. According to a statement…
Woman returns stolen kids to police
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A Nigerian middle aged woman, Eloho Igwe who allegedly stole two children last week in Benin City, Edo…
Facebook lover gets new trial date
A Nigerian court has fixed 18 January to commence trial of Arthur Obiora, “the Facebook lover’’, charged with attempted rape…
Pension boss snubs Nigerian senate
The Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Wednesday failed to…
Nigeria: Babalakin challenges EFCC again
The Chairman of the Bi-Courtney Nigeria Limited, Dr. Wale Babalakin, has reinstituted the suit, challenging the legality of the criminal…
Yuletide: Facelift for Lagos Bar Beach
The Bar Beach in Lagos Nigeria, is undergoing a makeover to make it more user friendly during the Christmas and…
27 Die in Nigerian road crash
At least 27 people on a truck laden with cattle and sheep have drowned after the vehicle plunged into a…
27 Dead As Truck Plunges Into River
At least 27 people on a truck laden with cattle and sheep have drowned after the vehicle plunged into a…
E-X-C-L-U-S-I-V-E: Nigerian Navy Air Squadron, A Disaster
The Nigerian Navy whose helicopter crashed in Bayelsa State on Saturday, 15 December, 2012, killing the Kaduna State Governor, Patrick…
Nkiru: Family Seeks Reduction Of N100m Ransome
Representatives of the family of Nkiru Sylvanus are currently negotiating with the abductors of the actress, and she will be…
Soyinka Wins Awo Leadership Prize
Professor Wole Soyinka has been named winner of the first ever Obafemi Awolowo Prize for Leadership, instituted in honour of…
Terrorism: Britain Warns Citizens To Avoid Nigeria
Following the spate of terrorist attacks, kidnappings, armed robbery and petty crimes in the country, the British government has warned…
Okada Riders In Fresh Protest
Thousands of commercial motorcyclists, popularly called okada riders, this morning embarked on a peaceful procession in Lagos to protest the…
Yero Announces Burial Plans For Yakowa
New Kaduna governor, Alhaji Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has formally announced burial arrangements for the late Kaduna governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa…
Late DIG’s Siblings Fight Over Property
The siblings of the late Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ganiyu Olanrewaju Dawodu, are fighting over property left by…
Pirates kidnap 5 Indians off Nigerian coastline
Well armed pirates who stormed and ransacked an oil tanker off Nigeria have kidnapped five Indian crew members, said a…
Nigeria: Power output hits 4,349 megawatts
Nigeria is now generating 4,349.7 megawatts, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), said on Wednesday in Abuja. This is contained…
Nigeria’s Worsening Corruption Complex – What A Country!
Few days ago, Transparency International came out with a damning report to the effect that Nigeria is the 35th most…