Year: 2012
UNILAG unveils burial plans for Sofoluwe
The departed vice chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe will be buried on 31 May, the management…
80 per cent of Nigerian drivers ignorant of rules
Musa Sarkin-Adar, the Chairman House Committee on Transport, has expressed regret that 80 per cent of Nigerian drivers are ignorant…
Is the Kennedy Curse Real or America’s Superstition?
Mary Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is dead. Suicide is suspected, in the death that was a culmination…
ECOWAS ministers to meet on Mali, G/Bissau
West African ministers will meet Saturday to discuss efforts to return Guinea-Bissau and Mali to democratic rule following recent military…
French foreign minister wants new Europe
France’s new Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday his priority would be to deal with the European debt crisis and…
Salami: PDP denies blocking reinstatement
PDP National Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has denied reports that the party`s leadership is opposed to the reinstatement of Justice Ayo Salami…
JAMB Seeks EFCC’s Assistance To Curb Exam Malpractices
The Registrar and Chief Executive, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, on Wednesday, called on the Economic…
EFCC Arraigns Congolese Over Currency Trafficking
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a 42- year old Congolese, Seleto Papy before a Federal High…
Widows, Divorcees Thank Kano Govt For Wedding
Divorcees and widows in Kano northwest Nigeria, have continued to applaud the 100-couple mass wedding organized by Kano state government…
Edo Gov Race: INEC Stakeholders’ Meeting End In Stalemate
Preparations for the14 July, 2012 governorship election in Edo State was on Wednesday suffered a setback as participating political parties…
Mimiko: I have served my people diligently
Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, highlights the successes recorded by his administration within three years and speaks on political…
Mimiko’s Creative Interventions
KOLE OMOTOSO African men and women who take political power and do something with it to make a difference have…
Nigeria signs deal with French firm for electricity
Nigeria has signed a deal worth up to $200 million (157 million euros) with two French firms to improve electricity…
Federer, Williams Sisters advance in Rome
Roger Federer’s last minute decision to compete at the Rome Masters was rewarded immediately as he coasted to a 6-3,…
Market inches up again, Presco topples Okomu Oil
After two days of decline, the Nigerian Stock Exchange rebounded slightly today, with market capitalization closing at N7.183 trillion and…
Nigerian government unveils Green Wall project to fight Sahara
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved the take-off of the Great Green Wall (GGW) Environmental Pragramme to check the…
Mauritania teargas protesters urging leader quit
Mauritanian police on Wednesday broke up a fresh anti-regime protest as hundreds of youths gathered to demand President Mohamed Ould…
Taylor seeking leniency says he was a peace maker
Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accused UN prosecutors Wednesday of paying witnesses to testify against him as he addressed a…
Liverpool Coach, Dalglish red carded
Kenny Dalglish left his post as Liverpool manager on Wednesday, according to media reports. The 61-year-old Scot led Liverpool to…
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…
Edo Gov Polls’ll Be Fair, Says Jega
In a move intended to calm rising tension over the 14 July Edo State governorship polls, the Independent National Electoral…
PHCN burdened by N88b debt, says minister
Professor Barth Nnaji, the Minister of Power, has disclosed that that the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, the monopolist power…
ACN slams PDP over Attacks on General Buhari
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has denounced the crude, vitriolic and impudent verbal attack on a former Head of…
NLC Mourns Bafyau
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has described the death of Pascal Bafyau, its former President late on Tuesday night in…
2-Yr Old Twin Disappears At Winners Chapel, Father Cries Out
Bishop David Oyedepo’s Faith Tabernacle, also known as Winners’ Chapel, is currently enmeshed in a controversy over a missing two-year…
Robbers Raid Ketu From House To House
Armed robbers last night raided from house to house in Ketu area of Kosofe Local Government in Lagos State, southwest…
NLC bemoans Bafyau’s passage
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC has described the death of Pascal Bafyau, its former President late on Tuesday…
Pastor Killed By Daughter’s Lover
Police detectives attached to Itire Police Station in Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, have…
Jilted Jobless Man Burns Lover’s Apartment
The police at Takwa Bay Division, Lekki, Eti Osa, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, have arrested and arraigned a man, Godspower Ikechukwu,…
Court Urges Lagos, Striking Doctors To Dialogue
The presiding Judge of the National Industrial Court, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Justice Benedict B. Kayid while adjourning till 22 May,…