Year: 2012
Holiday Clinic For Children Debuts In Lagos
Tennis players within the ages of 3 and 18 have something to cheer about in the coming holiday, as a…
I Want To Become A World Star Someday —Abiodun
To Taiwo Abiodun his ambition to become a world star in the future has been given a lift with the…
Boy dies in latest Jos attack
An assailant on Tuesday fired a heavy weapon at an Islamic school in the central Nigerian city of Jos, killing…
Nigeria’s Call Up Excites Akinluyi
Didi Akinluyi is excited over his invitation to the rugby team of Nigeria. The 25-year-old Cambridge University RUFC back row…
Crown, Pillars In Elecrifying Fed Cup Tie
The opening matches of this year’s Federation Cup, are not just living up to expectation, but maintaining the tradition, where…
Why I’m Still Keeping At 42
David James, one of the most durable footballers of his generation, can point to some impressive numbers when summing up…
Kaspersky LAB Celebrates 15 Years Of Security Research
On 26 June, 1997, Kaspersky Lab was established under the leadership of Eugene Kaspersky and his co-founders. This month marks…
Reps Ask NCC To Bar Hidden Number Calls
As part of efforts to ensure adequate security and stem the tide of kidnapping in the country, the House of…
Facebook Monitors Users’ Chats
According to a report, the social networking site, Facebook, and other websites are monitoring users’ online chats and then scanning…
Insight Invests In Digital Marketing, Technology
In a bid to strengthen its commitment proffering world-class integrated solutions to clients, Insight Communications recently sent the largest delegation…
Firm Introduces Free Conference Call
A Lagos-based firm, Peace Global Services, has introduced a platform for teleconferencing and telebroadcasting. According to the firm, the innovative…
Peugeot adamant on closing France plant
The head of French carmaker PSA Peugeot, Philippe Varin, said on Tuesday that the firm had no choice but to…
Jos rattled by Gunfire, explosion
An explosion rocked central Nigeria’s city of Jos on Tuesday, with an official saying a bomb detonated outside a government…
Jonathan appoints panel on UNIABUJA crisis
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved a special visitation panel to the University of Abuja. It will be inaugurated on 25…
Ramadan will not stop strike, Kebbi NLC says
The Nigeria Labour Congress in Kebbi State has dispelled speculations that it may call off its ongoing strike over the…
Nigerians flee villages marked for army raid
Hundreds of villagers have quit their homes in central Nigeria ahead of a planned army raid on suspected militant hideouts,…
Shame as Nigeria imports diesel from Niger
In a development that should put Nigeria’s oil managers and the political leadership in shame, Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer…
2 Chinese nationals murdered in Nigeria by Chinese
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Police authorities in Kano, northwest Nigeria on Monday said they are still investigating the remote and immediate causes…
Anti-Assad forces take battle to Damascus
Syria’s military deployed armoured vehicles near central Damascus on Monday as troops battled rebels around the capital in what activists…
Boko Haram attacks Police headquarters
Suspected members of radical Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a police building in restive northern Nigeria on Monday but the…
3 killed as soldiers clear Elechi Beach
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Three persons, an elderly woman and two girls, died when at least 1,000 residents of Elechi Beach…
Fashola donates new Fed Cup
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) on Monday donated a brand-new, all-silver giant-size Federation Cup competition trophy to the…
Pension Fraud: Court freezes assets of 6 accused
Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory , Justice Lawal H. Gumi has granted an interim order to the Economic…
PIB in circulation fake, says Nigeria’s presidency
Nigeria’s Presidency has alerted the nation that the purported Petroleum Industry Bill now is circulation is fake. In a press…
Capello appointed Russia coach
Former England manager Fabio Capello will take charge of the Russia team, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta Dello Sport reported…
Fed Cup: El Kanemi beat Kwara United
Adebowale Alawode El-kanemi Warriors of Maiduguri began their campaign in the Round of 16 of this year’s Federation Cup in…
Lagos demolishes shanties on waterfront
Officials of Nigeria’s Lagos State on Monday began demolishing the large Makoko waterfront slum in the economic capital Lagos, a…
Potholes trap motorists on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Travellers and motorists plying the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are facing harrowing experience because of the gridlock caused by many…
Oshiomhole Laughs Last, Story Of His Victory
The Edo State 2012 governorship election has come and gone, leaving in its wake a landslide victory for Governor Adams…
Jonathan sets up new NNPC board
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday approved the constitution of a new board of directors for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation…