Year: 2012
Nigeria: Boko Haram bombs Sokoto
Explosions, including a suicide blast, rocked two police stations on Monday in Nigeria’s northwestern city of Sokoto, the historic seat…
Actor Muyiwa Ademola Loses Dad
Popular Yoruba movie producer, director and actor, Muyiwa Ademola, is bereaved. His father, Pa Isaiah Ademola died this morning after…
Ebola virus panic in Kampala
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni Monday warned against physical contact after a victim of a deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus…
Poor Muslims to get free food in Jigawa
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State on Monday directed all the 27 local government chairmen to spend N64.8 million to…
Ogun workers held in 4km long traffic gridlock
Thousands of State and Federal Civil Servants in Ogun State were today held down in traffic by a gridlock that…
Another Nigeria’s Olympic medal hope fades out
Nigeria’s first-ever Olympic Games competitor in the canoeing event, Jonathan Akinyemi, on Sunday in London crashed out of the competition…
4 die in gun battle near Nigerian mosque
A gun battle near a mosque in the Nigerian city of Kano and two other shootings left at least eight…
Olympics: China gallops away on medals table
China surged clear at the top of the Olympic medals table on Sunday, as two world records fell in the…
Olympic basketball results
Olympic Games men’s basketball results on Sunday: Men Preliminary round Nigeria 60 Tunisia 56 Brazil 75 Australia 71 United States…
Olympic Men’s football results
Results from the men’s Olympic football tournament on Sunday: At London Group A Senegal 2 Uruguay 0 At Coventry Group…
Nigeria’s editors decry state of insecurity
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged all stakeholders at different levels in the country to step up…
PDP wins Katsina bye-election
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission has declared PDP’s Bilya Sani Yamel as the winner of Saturday’s bye-election for the Katsina…
Nigeria: Obasanjo, IBB call for talks with insurgents
Two former Nigerian leaders issued a rare joint statement on Sunday calling for talks to end a deadly insurgency by…
Nigeria’s Flying Eagles soar above Tanzania
Tunde Oyedele Nigeria’s Flying Eagles took a massive step towards reaching the third round qualifying series of the 2013 African…
Bakare: I’ll not stop criticizing Jonathan
Eromosele Ebhomele Fiery Lagos-based General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has declared that he would not…
Traditional ruler abducted by armed men
Some gunmen on Sunday kidnapped Robert Chukwudilim Eze, the traditional ruler of Ukpo community in Dunukofia Local Government Area of…
Nigeria arrests 20 vehicles over child trafficking
Members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) stationed in Lokoja, Kogi, on Sunday intercepted 20 vehicles conveying more than 103 children,…
Olympic soccer results today
At Coventry Group B Mexico 2 Gabon 0 At Manchester Group c Egypt 1 New Zealand 1 Brazil 3 Belarus…
Olympics: Nigeria’s lone table tennis survivor crashes out
Quadri Aruna, Team Nigeria’s remaining table tennis player at the ongoing London 2012 Olympic Games, crashed out of the competition…
Nigeria’s air force officer, driver killed
Updated Gun men believed to be members of the Boko Haram sect have shot dead an orderly to a Nigerian…
13 die in Nigeria’s ghastly road crash
No fewer than 13 passengers died in a motor accident on the Benin-Ore road, the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) confirmed on Sunday. In…
ACN asks PDP boss to step down over subsidy scam
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Chairman of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga…
Olympic Basketball: Nigeria Beat Tunisia
Nigeria’s D’Tigers have taken the very crucial points in their first Olympics basketball game this morning. They beat Tunisia 60-56…
Real Madrid sign Spur’s Luka Modric
Tottenham last night agreed a £36m fee with Real Madrid to sign Luka Modric, reports The Sun on Sunday. The…
Taraba University gets funds from councils
The Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Nigeria’s Taraba State has approved the remittance of three percent of…
26 Boko Haram members arrested, 2 killed in raid
Nigerian soldiers have arrested 26 alleged members of Islamist group Boko Haram and killed two others in a raid after…
Romanians vote to sack president
Polling stations opened Sunday at 0400 GMT to give Romanians a chance to decide whether to impeach their president Traian…
UNN Students Affairs office set ablaze
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) Student Affairs Department, was on Saturday set ablaze by unidentified persons. The fire destroyed…
Captain Ore reports Aviation Minister’s threat
Simon Ateba Veteran Nigerian pilot and President of Aviation Round Table, Captain Dele Ore, has alleged in a statement that…
ACN backs Akeredolu, PDP picks Oke
Jamiu Yisa Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has announced Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, as the duly elected governorship candidate of…