Year: 2012
Debt: Court Urged To Winds Up Company
A Lagos businesswoman, Cecilia Nwosu, has filed a petition before a federal high court in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, urging it…
Nigeria plans N5 trillion budget 2013
Nigeria’s Federal Government has approved a draft budget of N4.929 trillion for the 2013 fiscal year. This was announced by…
Olympic 200m: Usain Bolt vows good race
Usain Bolt strolled ever closer to Olympic immortality on Wednesday. Jamaican superstar Bolt — chasing an unprecedented second successive 100m-200m…
NURTW, cycle operators want Lagos revise law
The Lagos State Chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) on Wednesday called on the Lagos State…
Kenya to dock top judge for misconduct
Kenya’s top public prosecutor has endorsed criminal charges against the country’s second most influential judicial official days after a panel…
Airtel’s subscribers’ base grows 31 per cent
Two years after it took over an existing network, Airtel Nigeria has grown its subscriber base by 31 per cent…
Late Ghanaian leader’s final journey begins
Ghanaians in black traditional garb and shirts bearing images of late president John Atta Mills filed through a hall where…
74 drug traffickers arrested in West Africa
Law enforcement officers from agencies responsible for drug investigations in three ECOWAS countries have completed a week-long capacity building training-cum-operational…
Jonathan Leads Delegation to Atta Mills Funeral
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will travel to Accra, Ghana tomorrow at the head of Nigeria’s official delegation to the burial…
3 bank officials docked over N850m scam
EFCC Arraigns Keystone Bank Officials Over N855m Scam The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today arraigned three officials of…
Alleged Certificate Forgery Stalls Edo NUJ Election
The national secretariat of Nigeria Union of Journalists on Wednesday shelved election of officers to run the affairs of the…
Bodies of Dana plane crash victims to be released
Simon Ateba The Lagos State Government, today, announced that it will begin releasing corpses of the Dana plane crash from…
Liberian Refs For Flying Eagles, Tanzania Clash
The Confederation of African Football, CAF has named Liberian referees for Sunday’s 2013 U-20 African Youth Championship, AYC, qualifying match…
Poland’s wrestler floors Nigeria’s Oborududu
Adebobola Alawode Team Nigeria Wednesday afternoon continued with their poor performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games, when female wrestler,…
Police Set For Showdown With Keshi’s Eagles
The Super Eagles will continue their preparations for the 15 August friendly match against Niger Republic with a friendly match…
Cameroon in frantic search for missing athletes
Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have absconded during the London…
Police Set For Showdown With Keshi’s Eagles
The Super Eagles will continue their preparations for the 15 August friendly match against Niger Republic with a friendly match…
Cameroon Seek Fugitive Athletes
Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have absconded during the London…
Gabon’s censored media vow to publish
Two opposition newspapers in Gabon vowed Wednesday to keep the presses rolling despite the National Communications Council’s (CNC) decision to…
Poland Wrestler Floors Nigeria’s Oborududu
Team Nigeria Wednesday afternoon continued with their poor performance at the London 2012 Olympic Games, when female wrestler, Blessing Oborududu…
Olympics: Semenya Zooms To 800m S/Final
Controversial South African runner Caster Semenya has qualified for the semi final of the women’s 800m of London 2012 Olympic…
Clinton Must Urge Nigeria To Address Violence: HRW
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should urge Nigeria to address violence by militant Islamist group Boko Haram as well…
Herdsmen Strike Again On Long Bridge
Barely a month after Fulani herdsmen killed Brig. Gen. Sylvester K. Iruh (retd) on the long bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan…
2 Die As Building Collapses
The National Emergency Management Agency has confirmed that two people lost their lives and nine others were injured when a…
32 Sex Workers Sent To Jail
The Special Offences Court at Alausa, Ikeja, Southwest Nigeria, on Tuesday sentenced 32 sex workers to four months imprisonment for…
Collect Bribe, Go To Jail —LASTMA Men Warned
The Lagos State Government has vowed to sack any officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, who will…
Police Smash 8-Man Mushin Gang
Eight Mushin robbery suspects who allegedly robbed and killed their victims have been arrested by operatives of the Federal Special…
Time For Action And Not Lamentations, ACN Tells Jonathan
The Action Congress of Nigeria has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately convoque a national conference on the worsening…
Burial Of Late Ghanaian President Begins
Ghana began three days of funeral rites for late president John Atta Mills on Wednesday, with his body to lie…
Don’t Spare Traffic Offenders, Ikuforiji Warns Colleagues
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has warn his colleagues against intervening for traffic offenders in…