Year: 2012
Segun Oseni, Movie Stars Party With Motherless Children
Segun Oseni, the producer of television drama, The Couples, has intensified his quest to put smile on the faces of…
Actors Are Like Mirrors
Popular and award-winning fashion icon, Funmi Ajila-Ladipo has spread her tentacles to the motion picture industry, with her first role…
Kate Henshaw, Bhaira Walk Against Rape
Versatile actress, Kate Henshaw and winner of Amstel Malta Box office 3, Bhaira McWizu, have joined other influential personalities for…
Actor Dento Gets Lifeline
Popular Yoruba comedy actor, Hammed Oduola, otherwise known as Dento, who is currently bedridden with stroke, has been given a…
Headlines, News, Sports, Tennis
History man Nadal wins 7th French title
Rafael Nadal clinched a record seventh French Open title on Monday, defeating world number one Novak Djokovic 6-4, 6-3, 2-6,…
Nigerian rapist gets a light sentence
A Jos Upper Area Court on Monday may have incurred the wrath of anti-rape groups nationwide when it sentenced a…
Bombs: Plateau cautions youths on law and order
As calm returns to Jos, after Sunday’s suicide bomb attack on Christ Chosen Church, the state government has cautioned youths…
Fire Guts Ladipo Market
Fire broke out early this morning at Warehouse B, Ladipo market in Mushin, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. Goods worth millions naira were…
PDP topshot dismisses ACN, CPC merger talks
Alhaji Kawu Baraje, the former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has dismissed on going merger talks between…
Boko Haram: ‘Why we attacked the churches’
A purported spokesman for Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attacks and threatened further violence. “We are responsible for…
World Cup: Libya stun Cameroon
At the end of two rounds of group stage action in Africa’s qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil,…
Subsidy: Farouk Debunks Bribery Allegations
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Farouk Lawan, the Chairman of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on fuel subsidy has denied reports that…
NUT counsels Ekiti govt on teachers’ assessment
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Sunday urged the Ekiti State Government to explore professional options in assessing the…
Football, Headlines, News, Sports, World News
Footballer, Christian Obodo freed
The Nigerian police in Delta State on Sunday rescued Italy-based Super Eagles player Christian Obodo, who was kidnapped in Warri…
Day 3: Euro 2012 Round Up
Italy showed great character after a traumatic run-in to Euro 2012 by holding defending champions Spain to a 1-1 draw…
Nigeria getting ready for Rwanda early
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will on Tuesday leave for Calabar to prepare for Saturday’s match against the Wasps of Rwanda at…
PDP sweeps council polls in Akwa Ibom
The Akwa Ibom Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s local…
Kabo Air denies having old aircraft
Nigerian airliner, Kabo Air Limited on Sunday denied media reports that some of its aircraft are over 30 years old.…
‘We prayed against death before the bombing’
Josephine Jacobson, a 63-year-old Deaconess of the Christ Chosen Church of God, said that Sunday’s suicide attack on the Church occurred just after the congregation…
Official: 5 die in Jos church bombing
Nigeria’s Special Task Force (STF) has confirmed five persons dead in the Sunday suicide bomb attack on a church in Jos…
Pastor of bombed church in critical condition
The Pastor of Christ Chosen Church of God, Monday Uzoka, his wife and two children are among the 52 victims affected by the suicide…
Ndoma-Egba decries bombings
The Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has raised alarm over the rate at which innocent lives are being…
Witness: Jos bomber posed as church member
Richard Jonah, a witness at today’s bombing of God Chosen Church in Jos, the central Nigerian state of Plateau, said…
Akpabio: I warned Dana Airline about crash
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state said on Sunday that he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management…
One dies in another church attack by Boko Haram
Gunmen suspected to be members of the militant Boko Haram has attacked christian worshippers at a church in Biu, Borno…
Nigeria plans biggest exporter of gum arabic
Nigeria’s Borno Government said on Sunday that it planned to make the state the world’s largest exporter of gum Arabic…
Akwa Ibom council poll a farce— APGA candidate
Obong Samuel Atang, a chairmanship candidate in Saturday’s local government elections in Akwa Ibom, has alleged widespread irregularities in the…
Bomb rocks Jos church, scores feared dead
The Nigerian police in Plateau state have confirmed a bomb explosion at a church in the capital city of Jos.…
Football, Metro, News, Sports, World News
Obodo: Nigerian police vow rescue
Nigerian police on Sunday vowed to rescue international footballer Christian Obodo unhurt after he was kidnapped near the oil city…
Gunmen kill 2 cops, customs officer
Gunmen in Nigeria’s Kano city have killed two policemen and a customs officer, while two civilians wounded in the separate…