Year: 2012
Bombings: EU Asks Govt To Punish Culprits
European Union has called for the arrest, trial and punishment of those responsible for recent attacks on churches in the…
Lagos Island LG To Implement Child Rights Bill
Lagos Island Local Government Area, Lagos, southwest, Nigeria, has said it would observed all the provisions of the Child Rights’…
Man Docked For Setting Sharia Court Ablaze
The Katsina State Police Command has arraigned Ahmad Musa before a Katsina Chief Magistrates’ Court III for arson. Musa was…
ACN, CPC Merger Talk In Progress —Faruk
Mr. Faruk Osuma, the Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in FCT today said the party had started…
Kidnap: Pastor, 2 Others Jailed 20 Years Each
A Delta High Court sitting in Ogwashi-Uku in Aniocha South Local Government Area of the state on Monday sentenced a…
Traffic Gridlock, Road Safety And Traffic Radio
By Rasak Musbau Man has always tried to evolve safer and faster means of transportation. From the steam engine age…
The Odds Against Domestic Violence Laws
By Sola Ogunmosunle Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence, is…
Jonathan Should Stop Lamentation And Face Boko Haram Squarely
In his usual manner of reacting to the bombing of innocent Nigerians by the Boko Haram sect which are now…
GoTv Launched In Lagos
Details Nigeria has launched the newest and most innovative pay television service on the latest Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T2) technology,…
Shoprite To Open Shop In Abuja
Africa’s leading supermarket, Shoprite, has concluded plans to open an ultra-modern 3,853 square metre store within the newly built Grand…
SON Tasks Nigerian Firms On ISO Certificate
The Standard Organisation of Nigeria, SON, has challenged Nigerian companies to obtain the International Standard Organisation, ISO, certificate for their…
Sony Unveils 20mp Waterproof Camera
Apart from mirrorless cameras like the Nikon 1 V1, there have been few bright spots in the camera and camcorder…
StarTimes Assures Subscribers Of Affordable Service
The management of NTA Star TV Network, owners of StarTimes, has assured its subscribers of its commitment to providing quality…
‘Chelsea Must Pay N2.5b For Moses’
Chelsea have been told they must dramatically raise their offer to £10m, about N2.5 billion for Victor Moses if they…
Police Athletes Clear 20km Walk Medals
Athletes of the Nigeria Police have cleared majority of the medals available in the 20km Walk event of the ongoing…
Olympic Trials: Sales Boom In Calabar
Traders in and around the U.J. Esuene Stadium, Calabar, Cross River State, are raking cool cash from their sales as…
Battle With Sunshine: 3SC Hit Ijebu Ode With 1,000 Buses
The management of 3SC is planning to storm Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with over 1,000 buses filled their fans to…
Doping: Nigerian Boxer Gets 4 Years Ban
Nigerian-born British heavyweight boxer, Larry Olubamiwo, has been suspended for four years, having admitted taking 13 banned substances. The 33-year-old…
348 Athletes Burn Calabar Tracks At Olympic Trials
About 348 international and local athletes are featuring in the Nigerian Athletics Championships, tagged Calabar 2012. The championships, which hold…
MTN Street Soccer: LOC Targets 1,000 Entries
Organisers of this year’s MTN Lagos Street Soccer have disclosed that they are expecting at least 1,000 entries for the…
Two Escape Death As Mast Collapses
A mast belonging to Diamond Bank Plc collapsed on Saturday at about 2 p.m. in Idumagbo area of Lagos State,…
Bank Robbery: DPO Redeployed
The Commissioner of Police Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, Umaru Manko, has ordered the immediate redeployment of the Divisional Police Officer…
Youths Urged To Shun Cultism, Drugs
Chairman, Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, Princess Ramota Adeyeri-Oseni has advised children and youths to shun wayward…
Shanghai Shenhua offers Drogba $314,000 a week
Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is set to sign for Shanghai Shenhua, joining Nicolas Anelka at the Chinese club, its…
Clash at Igbinedion varsity caused by cultists
The Presidential Amnesty Office has explained that the clash between former militants and cultists at Igbinedion University was orchestrated by…
Abia gives police 30 patrol vans
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state, eastern Nigeria, on Monday donated 30 patrol vans to the State Police Command as…
Ogun electoral commission clears 89 for polls
The Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) has so far cleared 89 chairmanship candidates from 28 political parties to contest…
Spain, Italy In, Croatia, Ireland out
Football: Spain, Italy through, as Group C concludes – Wrap, Lead 06/18/2012 21:38 GMT – FBL-EURO-2012 – World Sports –…
Nigerian army seizes stolen $9million crude oil
Nigeria has in the last five months seized 17.5 million litres of oil worth around $9 million (7.2 million euros)…
Nigerian town hit by a cocktail of bombs, gunshots
Fresh explosions and gunfire have rocked Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, a day after suicide attacks claimed by Islamists and…