Year: 2012
Small-Scale Business Operators Task Jonathan On Power Supply
Some small-scale business operators in Lagos have called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to power supply as…
Businessman Faces Criminal Charges
A Lagos businessman, Lucky Eyis Amiwero of Plot 8 Regineth Plaza, Ibafon, Apapa, Lagos southwest Nigeria, alleged to have forged…
Man Rapes 4-Year Old Girl
A 21-year old man, Adekunle Bello has been charged before Abule Egba Magistrate’s court, Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, for allegedly…
NGO Seeks Justice For Slain Police Officers
The Africans for Human Rights International (AfriRights) has accused the office of the Inspector-General of Police of ‘criminal silence’ in…
Forceful Ejection: Landlady Seeks Out Of Court Settlement
A Lagos landlady, Mrs. Iyabo Alege, 53, of 11, Ereko Street, Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, who is standing trial at…
Peru Beat Nigeria 1-0
The senior national team of Peru this morning defeated Nigeria’s Super Eagles 1-0 in an international friendly tie played at…
AI thumbs down UN, calls for arms trade treaty
The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of leadership thatmakes the…
Special court for election violence
Oluokun Ayorinde/Abuja To tackle the problems of violence before, during and after elections in the country, the Federal Government on…
Customs Seeks EFCC’s Support In Tackling Smuggling
The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdulahi Inde Dikko has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…
Sacked Lagos Doctors for Recall, says Head of Service
The Head of Service of Nigeria’s Lagos State, Mr Adesegun Ogunlewe, has hinted that the government might recall some of…
Cross River, Songhai Regional Centre Sign MoU On Agriculture
Cross River State Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Songhai Regional Centre, Porto Novo, Benin Republic on…
Federal High Court Gets 12 New Judges
In a bid to make the recently created Divisions of the Federal High Court fully functional, President Goodluck Jonathan, on…
Be Ready For Fire For Fire If Dialogue Fails, Gowon Tells Boko Haram
Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon (GCFR) Wednesday urged terrorist group Boko Haram to embrace dialogue, else, the…
3 Arraigned For Voters’ Card Offences
Three persons have been arraigned at the magistrate’s court in Afuze, headquarters of Owan West LGA of Edo State, southsouth…
N21bn Forgery Scam: Court Sets Aside Saraki’s Arrest Warrant
A temporary respite was on Wednesday secured by embattled former governor of Kwara state and now a senator, representing the…
Eagles To Wear All Green Against Peru
Nigeria’s Super Eagles will put on an all-green jersey when they file out against Peru’s national football team in Wednesday’s…
NOC Gets Olympic Media Rights For N80m, Set To Reap N250m From Deal
Olympic excitement will fill the Nigerian airwaves very soon, as the Nigeria Olympic Committee, NOC, disclosed that it has purchased…
Reinstate Salami, Stop Endangering Our Democracy, Lagos ACN Tells Presidency
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has said the continued procrastination of President Goodluck Jonathan in…
19 Kid Hoodlums Arrested In Oshodi
The Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit has arrested 19 suspected teenage hoodlums under the bridge…
Man Starved Of Sex Wants Divorce
A Lagos-based advertising practitioner, Mr. Olalekan Fadolapo, has filed a divorce suit against his wife, Funke, at the Ikeja Grade’A’…
Peace Maker Murdered With Pestle
The marital squabble between a woman, Affiong Effiong, and her husband, Emmanuel Jacob Udoaba, has resulted in the death of…
CRIME BATTLE: Lagos Councils To Donate 114 Vehicles To Police
The 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have concluded arrangement to donate…
LEKKI PHASE 2: NTDA Fools Gov Fashola
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) was at Lekki Phase Two Estate yesterday to deliver nine roads built by…
Australian Is World’s Richest Woman
Australia’s richest person Gina Rinehart has eclipsed Wal-Mart heiress Christy Walton to become the world’s wealthiest woman, according to an…
Salami: ACN Slams Jonathan’s Govt
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has said the statement by the Attorney-General of the Federation Mohammed Adoke, that Justice…
2 Containers Of Books Seized
Nigerian authorities have seized thousands of suspected pirated books imported from China, including titles copyrighted by major international publishers, the…
‘Provide Stable Electricity Before Increasing Tariff’
Mr. Bede Opara, President, Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), on Tuesday reiterated the need for adequate…
Don Urges FG To Fight Corruption
Professor Benedict Ijomah on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to step up the fight against corruption. Ijomah, a former lecturer…
Housewife Stabs Self To Death
A housewife, Mrs. Tina Eku-Joshua, on Tuesday stabbed herself to death at Sabon-Pegi area of Shabu, Lafia-North Development Area, in…
EFCC arraigns bizman Wilson Opuwei over alleged $550,000 fraud
A 40-year old businessman, Wilson Opuwei, was on Tuesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly…