Year: 2012
Fund Misuse: Commissioner Refutes Allegation
The Lagos State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Ademorin Kuye, has refuted allegation of fund misappropriation through alleged…
World Cup Qualifier Vs Namibia: Eagles’ Camp Bubbles
The Metropolitan Hotel camp of the Super Eagles of Nigeria in Cross River State, Calabar came alive today ahead of…
Zimbabwe’s Fall Excites Falcons’ Coach
Chief Coach of Super Falcons of Nigeria, Kadiri Ikhana, has expressed joy over the victory of his team against their…
No More Mercenaries In Lagos Sports —Fashola
The Lagos State Sports Festival, tagged Ibile Games 2012 came to an end on Saturday with the State Governor, Babatunde…
Peter Shines At Boxing Hall Of Fame
Garden City Games’ female gold medalist, Kate Peter, last Saturday continued her dominance in the 69kg category as she defeated…
Boxer Found Dead At Home
Five-time world boxing champion, Johnny Tapia has died at the age of 45. The fighter’s body was discovered by a…
Mensah Says Team Nigeria’ll Fumble
Due to the poor state of the Etete, Benin camp of the Nigerian boxing team, Boxing Coach, Joe Mensah, has…
Anarchist Vows To Wage Warfare On Olympics
An anarchist group has vowed to wage “low level warfare” against Britain, sabotaging financial institutions, transport, and the military in…
Itodo Blow For Sunshine
Defensive midfielder, Cletus Itodo has been ruled out from Sunshine Stars ongoing CAF Champions League campaign. The Akure Gunners are…
Nigeria Premier League: Black Leopards Chase Thankgod
South Africa’s Black Leopards have joined in the chase for Warri Wolves star defender Ikechukwu Thankgod. Thankgod has already told…
Mo Farah Warms Up For Olympics
Britain’s Mo Farah warmed up for the Olympics by winning the Bupa London 10,000m road race in a time of…
Libolo Make Angolan History
Recreativo do Libolo basketball club, launched in 2008, have joined the elite in Angolan basketball as they claimed a 91-82…
Union Bank Give Up On Super 8
After two successive narrow defeats to their opponents, Lagos Islanders and Comets of Lagos, coach of Union Bank club of…
Deepwater Target Unbeaten Record
With less than a week before the dunk off of the last phase of the Zenith Bank-sponsored Nigerian Women’s league…
Lagos, Osun Lawmakers For Novelty Match
Two Legislative Houses of Assemblies, the Lagos State House and their Osun State counterpart will on 30 May dump the…
Fan Condemns Yekini’s Family
A football fan and an admirer of the late soccer hero, Rashidi Yekini, Chief Augustine Bola Adegunloye has condemned the…
We Discovered Talents At Ibile Games —Adedimeji
Chairman, Lagos State Weightlifting Association, LSWA, Navy Captain Babatunde Adedimeji (retd) in this interview with BIMBO AJAYI, spoke about the…
Low Thinking High, Despite Defeat By Switzerland
Germany coach Joachim Low rued a lack of freshness after the UEFA EURO 2012 hopefuls suffered a surprise 5-3 away…
The Acts Of The Politicians —Isaac Asabor
If an author decides to write a political compendium titled “The Acts of The Politicians”, to mark the commemoration of…
Time To Stop Illegal Mining And Dredging In Lagos State —Tayo Ogunbiyi
Danger is imminent in Lagos, except relevant stakeholders come together to quickly nip the threat of illegal mining and dredging…
Jonathan’s Poor Score Card
Tomorrow, 29 May, is the so-called Democracy Day. It marks President Goodluck Jonathan’s first anniversary in power, though technically, he…
Want To Know The Secrets For Personal Wealth?
How can I possibly forget the 15th of December 1997? I still remember the day very vividly. It was a…
Muslim Grammar School Win Oyo Gov’s Cup
The 2011/2012 edition of Oyo State Governor’s Cup climaxed with the victory of Muslim Grammar School, Otu over their rivals,…
Mr President’s Steady Slide
President Goodluck Jonathan may view himself as some sort of misunderstood philosopher, but after one year in office–marked by incautious…
For Jonathan, So Far, Not So Good
President Jonathan rode to office on the back of two heart-winning campaign slogans: ‘a breath of fresh air’ and ‘a…
Edo’s Politics Of Blood-letting
With its deadly run-in, the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, slated for July, promises unfettered violence On 14 May,…
Facts, Lies Of American Hospital Project
New facts emerge on the brewing crisis over the proposed American Hospital project in Abuja, as allegations of forgery fly…
2 killed as gunmen attack cleric, muslim worshippers
An anti-Boko Haram muslim cleric in Potiskum, Yobe state in Nigeria’s north east has escaped death after gunmen opened fire…
Wikileaks founder awaits final verdict on extradition
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the…
Why Russian soccer is still wobbling
Russian football may have had hundreds of millions of roubles pumped into the game in the last few years but…