Year: 2012
Police vow to free retired army general’s wife
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN As the search for Titilayo, the wife of the Military Governor of the old Western Region , Brig-Gen…
Mass weddings on 12-12-12
Thousands of couples in Asia flocked Wednesday to tie the knot on 12/12/12, seeking good fortune for marriages begun on…
Abducted Kamene Okonjo’s police guards face probe
Two Nigerian police officers who were not at their assigned posts at the home of the mother of the country’s…
50 vehicles smashed as granite truck kills 7 students
No fewer than seven students of Itori Comprehensive High School, Itori, were killed on Wednesday in a motor accident that…
Court: Ex-Nigerian governor has a case to answer
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN JUSTICE Akintunde Boade of the Ibadan High Court has declared that former Oyo state governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala,…
Nigerian Court lifts order on Capital Oil
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nearly a month after a Federal High Court made an order freezing his accounts and granting…
Senator Ndume spoke with Boko Haram man 73 times
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian High Court siting in Abuja was on Wednesday told that Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume,…
Mandela responding to treatment, say doctors
Doctors caring for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, said he was responding to treatment for a lung infection, the…
Marwa: ‘I’m still in CPC’
The governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa,…
ASUU ready for dialogue with Amaechi
The Rivers State University of Science and Technology ASUU chapter said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that it was ready…
INEC Chief calls for 5 parties in Nigeria
The state commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers said on Wednesday that a five-party system would…
Nigeria: Bees stop students exam
A swarm of bees has disrupted the on-going second semester examination at Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, in Nigeria’s north east.…
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Nigeria: Babalakin’s Counsel Withdraws
The trial of the embattled Managing Director of Bi Courtney Ltd, Dr. Wale Babalakin by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Lagos Police Boss: No Deal With Motor Park Touts
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko, spoke with MOYO FABIYI and LUCKY LAWAL on the enforcement of the…
Pastors Will Buy More Jets —Bishop Oke
The National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Southwest, Bishop Francis Oke, has asked those criticising pastors…
Panic Grips Cops Over Certificate Verification
The Lagos State Police Command has commenced verification of certificates of its men and officers. This has reportedly caused panic…
UN Organ Tasks FG On Slum Development
The youth wing of the United Nation’s City Agency (UN Habitat) has urged the Federal Government to provide social amenities…
Tanker Drivers Protest Killing Of Member
The Kaduna State branch of Petroleum Tanker Drivers Association, has suspended its operation to protest the alleged killing of one…
‘Jonathan Pushing Nigeria To Collapse’
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mufutau Egberongbe, has urged Nigerians close to President Goodluck Jonathan to…
Falana To FG: Obey Rule Of Law To Ensure Peace
A Human Rights Activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the Federal Government to embrace the rule of law rather…
Lagos Assembly Calls For Agric Improvement
The Lagos State House of Assembly has advised the state Ministry of Agricultural and Cooperative to ensure improvement in agricultural…
Lawmaker Wants Investment In Qualitative Education
A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rotimi Olowo, representing Somolu Constituency 1, has pledged support for the…
Akande Warns Against Further Development Of Ibeju-Lekki
Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Ad-hoc Committee on the disputed land between Fowoseje Community in Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos…
Djokovic, Serena Win ITF Awards
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic has beaten Andy Murray to the International Tennis Federation, ITF annual men’s World Champion award with American…
Ideye Named Player Of The Month
With the Ukrainian football season on a winter break till March 2013, Dynamo Kiev’s leading goal scorer for the season,…
2014 Sports Festival: Lagos Won’t Use Elite Athletes —Dep Gov
Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire has said that the state will not engage the services of elite…
Why Athletes Dumped Lagos At Festival
Winner of two medals for Team Delta in the Para-table-tennis event of the just concluded 18th National Sports Festival, tagged…
Stop Environmental Pollution, Oshun Warns Lagos Residents
Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Local Government Administration and Chieftaincy Affairs, Moshood Oshun, has warned…
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Arsenal Boss Devastated
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his club’s defeat in the Capital One Cup quarter-final is “very disappointing”. The Gunners were…
Pillars’ Flop, A Bad Signal For Nigerian Basketball
When the senior national basketball team, D’Tigers qualified and recorded an average performance at the 2012 Olympics held in London…