Year: 2012
Air Force jet crashes, ex-chief of staff dies
A Nigerian Air Force F7-Ni single seat fighter jet, on a routine training exercise, crashed on Wednesday close to the…
Ex-Arsenal defender, Campbell retires
Former England defender Sol Campbell announced his retirement as a player on Wednesday bringing down the curtain on a career…
UNIABUJA Students protest, clash with cops
Academic activities were on Wednesday paralysed at the University of Abuja (UniAbuja) following students’ protest over alleged plan to merge two departments in the Faculty…
Nigerian king on rape trial makes no case submission
A monarch in Nigeria’s state of Osun, Oba Adebukola Alli, who has been facing a four-count charge of rape, kidnapping,…
Teenager convicted for currency counterfeiting
Currency Counterfeiting: 18 Years Old Jailed 10 Justice M. T. Salihu of the Federal High Court, sitting in Bauchi, today sentenced…
SSS Impounds 35 Drums Of Chemicals, Arrests Suspect
The State Security Service, SSS, in Kano northwest Nigeria, Wednesday paraded a suspect, Ayuba Usman, who was arrested in with…
Akolade: Court Rejects Titilayo’s Photographs
An Ikeja High Court in Lagos today rejected the photographs of the late Titilayo Arowolo which the police took at…
Amaechi Accuses Labour Of Creating Unemployment
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has turned the heat on the labour unions in the state as the main…
Saraki To Report At SFU Again Tomorrow
Former governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki will report at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU, Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos,…
Boko Haram Plans To Wipe Out Christians —CAN
The Southern Christians Association of Nigeria, CAN, has raised the alarm that there is an agenda to wipe out Christians…
Man Stabbed To Death Over Cup Of Water
A young apprentice, Fidelis Ekuegbu was stabbed to death in Lagos recently when an argument ensued over a cup of…
US-Bound Passenger Caught With Heroin
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 43-year old trader in connection with illicit smuggling…
‘Civil Society Members Are Corrupt’ —Abiodun Aremu
The secretary of Joint Action Committee, JAC, Comrade Abiodun Aremu made a frank statement at the weekend in Lagos State,…
We’re Ready For Dialogue —Lagos Doctors
As workers marked the Workers’ Day yesterday, the striking doctors in Lagos State public hospitals say they are ready to…
CNPP Slams Lagos Doctors Over Strike
The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Lagos State Chapter, has slammed doctors in the state for their refusal to…
Why I Fear For Nigeria —Ikuforiji
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has stressed that his fear for the future of Nigeria…
Lagos Councils Must Be Serious With Poverty Alleviation
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Omotayo Oduntan, is the representative of…
Pension Administration: Lagos Assembly Lecture Borno Counterparts
Members of the Borno State House of Assembly have visited their colleagues in Lagos State to receive lectures on the…
Lagos Lawyer Loses Bid To Stop NBA Probe
A Lagos-based legal practitioner, Victor Oluyemi yesterday lost the legal battle to stop the Professional Ethics and Disciplinary Committee of…
Robbers Set Banks Ablaze In Ondo
Armed robbers besieged the sleepy town of Ikare-Akoko in Ondo State and used dynamites to blow open the security gates…
CBN Orders Foreign Airlines To Submit Ticket Sales For 12 Years
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Tuesday requested all foreign airlines authorised dealers to submit information on tickets sold…
Group To Honour Soyinka, Others
Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka and Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi are among eminent Nigerians to be honoured by Hi-Life All Stars…
Labour Urges Govt To Improve Lives Of Workers
The organised labour on Tuesday called on the Federal Government to evolve policies that would improve the lives of the…
MTN Staff Protest Suspension Of Colleagues
Staff of the Jos Call Centre of MTN, a telecommunications operator, on Tuesday took to the streets to protest the…
In Defence Of The Nigerian Journalist —Isaac Asabor
Every professional or virtually everybody in all fields of human endeavour are faced with hazards in the course of carrying…
Aregbesola And His Traducers —Peter Claver Oparah
It is not difficult to fathom why the PDP and its allies feel so uncomfortable with the public posture and…
It Is Time For Dialogue
Nobody thought it could turn this bad but the thoughtlessness of those who should know better may destroy our fragile…
Supercharge For Super Energy
Sometimes we get in a slump in life, and for various reasons we lose our energy and drive. Our metabolism…
Wealth From Your Creativity
From this title you might think this is one of those inspirational or guide to money-making kind of articles. Sorry…
‘Chelsea Ready To Wreck Newcastle’
Roberto Di Matteo has admitted that having to contest a Premier League game with Newcastle United only three days before…