Year: 2012
Why Police Shut Wizkid’s Canada Concert Venue
Microbell Media Group, MMG, the organisers of the North American musical tour of the Empire Mates Entertainment, EME, stars, Wizkid…
Pelli, New Music Act Set To Take Over
With the passion to take over the urban music scene, fast rising act, Pelli has emerged with his latest single.…
Mr 2Kay Releases Kosi Were Video
Port-Harcourt’s prized act, Mr 2Kay, is giving his fans something new to savour with the release of the highly anticipated…
Who Takes Home The Big Brother Crown?
As the continent’s hit television reality show, Big Brother StarGame, enters its final week, the quest for the whopping cash…
Top Stars Sign With Spinlet
Spinlet has announced the signing of Nigerian super stars, 2face, Wizkid and Eldee, on its platform. These super acts join…
23 Finalists Emerge For Snap To Stardom Pageant
After a rigorous auditioning process, 23 aspiring models have been short listed for the maiden edition of Snap To Stardom,…
Okonjo-Iweala named in UN social panel
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday named Nigeria’s finance minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a queen, a former president, a Nobel Peace…
Court Jails man Over $53,500 Internet Scam
A 22 year old internet fraudster, Bike John Niye has been sentenced to one and half years imprisonment by a…
I’m not Jonathan’s attack dog, says Okupe
Dr. Doyin Okupe, the newest member of President Goodluck Jonathan media team told journalists on Tuesday that though he was…
Crashed Dana Plane had engine failure, Coroner told
The Air Traffic Controller on duty 3 June, when the Dana plane crashed in a Lagos suburb said on Tuesday…
Shell debunks Nigeria exit rumours
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has debunked speculations that it plans to pull out of Nigeria. Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, the…
Apple, Samsung battle it out in court
Lawyers for Apple and Samsung debated the differences between copying and honest competition as opened arguments were held Tuesday in…
Nigeria troops intercept rocket launchers, bombs, rifles
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) on Tuesday said it intercepted rocket launchers, rocket bombs and…
Nigeria police free suspected child traffickers
The Kogi State Police Command has released the 103 children and adults handed over to the command for investigation by…
US blames Iran for rising Al-Qaeda threats
Al-Qaeda affiliates pose a rising threat exploiting poverty and upheavals in the world’s most vulnerable regions even as the core…
India enters record book for worst power failure
India has entered the record books for world’s worst power failure and the people affected. The country of over one…
Aregbesola approves new council for UNIOSUN
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Nigeria’s State of Osun on Tuesday approved the reconstitution of the council of the University of…
Katsina court reinstates CPC executives
A High Court in Katsina on Tuesday dissolved the Katsina State Congress for Progressive Change Interim Committee constituted by the…
Outrage as Sierra Leone jacks up fees for political aspirants
Sierra Leone’s elections body on Tuesday announced a hundred-fold hike in the fee to run for president in November, prompting…
ACN insists Tukur quit PDP post
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the highly predictable and jejune response of the PDP has done nothing…
Basketball: Lithuania tame Nigeria’s D’Tigers
Nigeria’s chances of advancing to the next round of the London 2012 Olympic Games suffered a setback Tuesday evening, as…
Robbers Abandon Snatched Editor’s Car
The Toyota Avensis car, marked Ogun CP 11 AKM which was snatched at gunpoint from the Editor, Nigerian Compass Newspaper,…
Oral Sex Crashes 11-Year Old Marriage
A 66 -year old retiree, Michael Adesanya Agboola, has said that he fell apart with his ex-wife, Funke Alasiri because…
SUBSIDY FRAUD: FG Drops Charges Against 2 Oil Marketers
The criminal charge filed against two oil marketers, Integrated Resources Limited, Pinacle Oil and Gas and two of their directors,…
Nigerian Faces Death Verdict In Malaysia
An Australian nurse and a Nigerian man face the possibility of death by hanging after a Malaysian court on Tuesday…
Fake Air Nigeria Staff Dupes Job Seekers
A 37-year old man, Ezekiel Eledu, who claimed to be a staff of Air Nigeria Plc has been arraigned before…
Edo PDP Members Want Anenih Sacked
Mr. Fix It of Edo politics, Chief Tony Anenih appears to be on his final journey into political oblivion following…
Killers Of 4 Elephants Still On The Run
Three persons whom Police and the Cross River Forestry Commission sources described as the “wrong persons” were arrested for…
LG Chairman Orders Sanitation Offenders Arrested
The Chairman Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government, Toba Oke ordered the arrest of three persons namely Olamide Adewale, Yemi Animasaun and Uzoma …
The Lasting Legacies Of A Senator
By Dimeji Daniels In a little over a year in the Senate, Senator Babafemi Ojudu has come to distinguish himself,…