Year: 2012
Kemi Drops The Hymns
Lady Evangelist, Kemi Adeniyi-Babalola a.k.a Mama Sioni, has finally released her album christened Iwe Orin (Hymns). According to Kemi, the…
French Embassy Holds Film Workshop With PEFTI School
The Audio-Visual Department of the French Embassy under the Regional Attaché, Mr. Jean-Pierre Bey, is running a two-week cinematography workshop…
Imelda J Out With New Video
A fast rising female artiste, Imelda Okwori, also known as Imelda J is set to storm the entertainment industry with…
Lectures Resume At UNILAG After 3-Day Mourning
Academic activities resumed on Thursday at the University of Lagos after three days of mourning for the late Vice Chancellor,…
Good Times Await Lagos PMAN
Members of Performing Musicians Association of Nigerian (PMAN), Lagos State chapter, are in for good times as a number of…
Success Digest Awards Holds
The sponsors’ dinner night being organized by Success Digest Enterprise Awards will hold on Friday, 25 May, 2012 at Sheraton…
Lawmakers Dissolve Butcher’s Association
The Lagos State House of Assembly has announced the immediate dissolution of the executive committee of the state butchers’ association.…
EFCC Takes Over Illegal Oil Bunkering Vessel
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday took possession of a suspected illegal oil bunkering vessel from the…
Lagos police arrest alleged graduate robber
The Police in Lagos have arrested a 32-year-old man (name withheld), who claimed to be a graduate of the Imo…
ACN Closes case in Adamawa
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) on Thursday closed its case in the Adamawa Governorship election Petitions Tribunal after fielding…
Plateau government begs journalists
Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau on Thursday apologised to journalists for government’s failure to address their grievances before their boycott of government…
124,000 Ogun state residents have AIDS
About 124,000 residents in Ogun are living with HIV/AIDS, Mr Olaokun Soyinka, the state Commissioner for Health, said on Thursday. Soyinka…
15 die in gruesome road accident in Nigeria
Fifteen persons on Thursday died while 6 others were injured when a commercial bus collided with a car on Maiduguri-Damaturu road, in Nigeria’s northeast…
Soldiers Beat Bus Driver To Death
A bus driver, Isaac Onaiwu, was allegedly beaten to death by soldiers from the Nigeria Army School of Supply and…
Tribunal Upholds Gov Wada’s Victory
THE Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja on Thursday ruled that Captain Idris Wada of the People’s Democratic Party,…
2015: North’ll Not Back Southern Candidates —NGF
Ahead of the 2015 general elections, governors of 19 northern states under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum, NGF, Thursday…
Same Sex Marriage: Obama’s Nod Emboldens Nigerian Gays
Gay activists in Nigeria seem to have been emboldened by President Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of homosexual relationships, P.M.NEWS can…
Explosion Rocks Port Harcourt
A commuter bus painted in Rivers State colour this morning exploded at Rumuokoro roundabout which is the gateway into Port…
Lagos School Tragedy: Principal, 3 Others Die
At least four persons have been confirmed dead including the principal, Saint Joseph Senior Boys Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos, Southwest…
Bribery: Trial Of Reps Stalled
The arraignment of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the dissolved House of Representatives Committee on Capital Markets and Institutions,…
Man, 87, Killed With Acid Over Land
Members of the family of Alhaji Muniru Okeowo, 87, who was allegedly killed with acid on Thursday at his residence…
Robbers’ Stray Bullet Kills FRCN Reporter
Edo state chapter of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) was again thrown into mourning on Tuesday as a journalist with…
Lagos Moves To Phase Out Use Of Kerosene For Cooking
The Lagos State Government is currently moving to phase out the use of kerosene by households in Lagos State, Southwest…
Air Nigeria Makes Maiden Flight To London
Air Nigeria on Wednesday made its maiden Lagos-London flight with an Airbus 300-200 aircraft after years of losses that threatened…
UNILAG VC To Be Buried 31 May
The remains of Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Shofoluwe, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos will be laid to rest…
Nigeria Needs Dons To Solve Her Problems
The Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, has noted that the contributions of the academia cannot be over-emphasised in fast-tracking…
Doctor Bags 5 Years Jail Term For False Alarm
A Benin-based medical doctor, Dr. Sunday Ogodo has been sentenced to a five-year jail term by a Chief Magistrates’ Court…
We All Killed Rasheed Yekini —Kunle Ademoye
The death of Rashidi Yekinni has come and gone, yet I still cannot help but confess that I’m yet to…
Lagos PDP Goes Under! —Joe Igbokwe
In the past 12 years Lagos Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been consistently insisting that it will capture Lagos State…
Impact Of Corruption On Facilities At Nigeria’s Airports
Few internal memos explain better why infrastructure has remained squalid at Nigeria’s airports. The one written on 28 May 2009…