Year: 2012
Nigerian Pastor Sent To Prison For Preaching To Oba
A Lagos-based clergy, Pastor Aba Peter, who allegedly went to a palace and attempted to preach and pray to a…
Fashola Orders 60 Ferries
Lagos State Government will soon take delivery of 60 ferries, as the state Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Thursday…
Remi Tinubu Floors Labour Party
The Court of Appeal, Lagos Division, Friday morning dismissed the appeal filed by Labour Party, LP, against the election of…
Group Vows To Cripple Oil Supply To North
A group, Association of Ethnic Nationalities, AEN, in the Niger Delta region, has vowed to cripple supply of petroleum products…
Nigerian Lawyer Shamed In U.S.
A Nigerian lawyer, Mr. Gbenga Anjorin, who had handled hundreds of cases, has been barred from practising law in Michigan,…
Supreme Court Upholds Dickson’s Election
Former governor of Bayelsa state, Chief Timipre Sylva on Friday lost his bid to unseat the recently elected Governor Seriake…
Army Assault Boats Commissioned
Eight Assault boats and eight Fast Assault Craft imported by the Nigerian Army since 2008 without the necessary combat facilities…
Assembly Receives Motion On Gas Eruption
The recent eruption of gas in Egiland of Rivers State, southsouth Nigeria, has been tabled at the Rivers House of…
Subsidy Fraud: NLC Wants Culprits Prosecuted
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called for the prosecution of all those indicted in the report of the House…
63-Year Old Grandma, Accomplice, Sent To Prison Over N200m Property Damage
A 63-year old grandmother, Funmilayo Ajayi and Adebola Kehinde, 44, have been arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for…
‘Cashless Policy ‘ll Eliminate Ghost Workers’
Mr. Fatai Salami, a financial expert, on Thursday said that the cashless policy being introduced by the apex bank would…
Landlord Remanded Over Illegal Ejection
A landlord, Morufu Sanmi, 52, has been arraigned by the police on a four-count charge of malicious damage, illegal ejection,…
Health Workers Blame Govt. For Continued Strike
The Lagos State chapter of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria on Thursday blamed the continued strike by…
Ogidigbodigbo’s Road To British jail
Were it for his political foray, James Onanefe Ibori could have remained unheard of and unexposed, for the rest of…
3 Arraigned Over NAFDAC Label Forgery
Three men, who allegedly forged NAFDAC label and sold some substandard products, were on Thursday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’…
2015 Governorship Poll: George, Obanikoro Sheathe Swords
The five year old rift between Chief Olabode George and former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in…
FEC Approves N2.6b For E-voters’ Card
The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved N2.6 billion for the first phase of the printing of permanent electronic voters’…
Southwest PDP Prays For True Reconciliation
Since after the year 2007 general elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-west region has been embroiled in…
‘Nigeria Loses N2tr To Capital Flight In Maritime Sector’
The Indigenous Ship owners Association of Nigeria (ISAN) has said that the Nigerian maritime industry is losing N2trillion to capital…
Group Remembers Slain Corps Members
Friends and family members of the slain Youth Corpers killed at a police station in Giade, Bauchi state during the…
Messi, Ronaldo Set Nou Camp Aglow
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s record goalscoring form looms as the decisive factor when Spanish league leader Real Madrid plays…
CAF Presidency: Issa Hayatou Seeks 7th Term
When his sixth term as CAF President expires next year, Issa Hayatou will be gunning for his seventh term in…
Boko Haram Threatens Handball Tourney
Indications are rife that some states may pull out of the National U-19 Handball Championships billed for Sokoto State tomorrow,…
Wigan Want Moses To Stay
Roberto Martinez has told one-capped Super Eagles player, Victor Moses not to leave Wigan for now. The winger’s agent, Tony…
Golfer Arrested For Drunk Driving
Authorities say Australian pro golfer Matthew Giles has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after he crashed his car…
Man Watches As 2 Men Gang-Rape Girlfriend
Two friends Balogun Babatunde, 25, Farinto Saheed, 24, have been arrested by the police and charged to Apapa Magistrate’s court,…
Lagos Moves To Tackle Unemployment
With a population of 18 million inhabitants, Lagos, no doubt, is the most populous city in Africa and by 2015,…
SON Seizes N450m Fake Cables
The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has made a seizure of substandard electric cables worth over N450 million at the…
Airtel, Avaya Partner On Customer Service
Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, and Avaya,…
Starcomms To Introduce My PAD2 Tablet
Starcomms Plc, Nigeria’s leading Code Division Multiple Access operator, is set to introduce the latest version of its tablet (myPAD2),…