Year: 2012
National Sports Festival: Lagos Boxers Cruise To S/Finals
Having promised to surpass their 7 gold medal feat at the Garden City Games in Port Harcour, Rivers State, Five…
How Boxers ‘Duped’ Lagos To Compete For Other States
Although, Team Lagos are featuring a dazzling array of talents in the male and female boxing events of the ongoing…
SPORTS FESTIVAL: Team Delta Rule Games With 53 Gold
The race to the top spot of the 18th National Sports Festival, tagged ‘Eko 2012’ is getting tougher, but Team…
Polio Forced Me Into Sports
Unlike other people, who are physically challenged, who take to the streets to beg for alms, Olarenwaju Olajumoke, who lost…
D’Banj Most Stylish Artiste
Nigeria’s brightest stars were recently celebrated at a night of music and style in what has become the most highly…
Adeyemo Eye Olympic Medal
David Adeyemo, who won two gold medals for Bayelsa State in the weightlifting event of the National Sports Festival holding…
Coach Wants Institute For Talent-Building
Feyisetan Are, the National Head Coach of Nigeria Para-power lifting Federation (NPPF), has called for the establishment of an Institute…
Eaglets’ Qualification Excites Ugbade
Assistant coach of Nigeria’s Golden Eaglets, Nduka Ugbade is glad to have helped the team book a ticket to the…
Nigerian Idol 3 Hits Screen 16 December
After impressive audition outings in Abuja, Port-Harcourt, Owerri, Benin, and Lagos, all is set for the nation-wide broadcast of Season…
Wizkid Rocks Coliseum Friday
Following the success the Legend Real Deal Nite has recorded in other parts of the country, come Friday 7 December,…
Ben Lee’s Debut Album Ready
Ben Lee, a gospel artiste, is set to release his debut album, PAEAN Songs of Praise. The singer, who is…
Lagos Edition Of Monopoly Arrives
In line with the popularity of Lagos as an entertainment, tourism and business capital, Monopoly, the world’s most famous board…
NURTW Members Not Touts — Agbede
The Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, has appealed to…
Woman Arrested For Selling Babies
The Police have arrested a 42-year old woman, Beatrice Nwankwo for her alleged involvement in the sale of babies at…
Bomb Attack: IG Threatens Police Officers
The Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, has said that any officer found wanting in the 26 November attack on…
Parents Blamed For Corps Members Redeployment
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on Tuesday blamed parents for the mass redeployment of corps members from Kano State.…
‘Lagos Almost Running State Police’
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday said the state government was nearly running a state police with the massive…
How Nigeria Can Succeed —Uduaghan
Delta State Governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Tuesday stressed the need for the nation to build its foundation on ethics and…
Why We Train Our Staff —Assembly Clerk
Acting Clerk of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Ganiyu Abiru, has said that the House will continue to…
Police Have Dumped Us —Slain Inspector’s Family
The way policemen’s families are treated after their death has been described as disheartening. Inspector Lisam Haruna, until his tragic…
2 Charged With Bank Fraud
Two men, Paul Alajemba 34 and Ebioma Akujobi, 40 have been arraigned before a kirikiri magistrate court, Apapa, Lagos, on…
Nigerian Banks Sound —NDIC
The Managing Director of Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC), Alhaji Umar Ibrahim, on Tuesday said all banks in the country…
Folorunso Alakija richest black woman on earth
Move over, Oprah Winfrey – there is a new richest black woman in the world. And she’s Nigerian. Meet Folorunsho…
RCCG Member Held For Impersonating Soldier
A member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, has been arrested by anti-robbery police officers for alleged impersonation…
Nigeria’s musical body sued for copyright violations
The Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria and seven others were on Tuesday charged before a Federal High Court in Lagos…
World’s tallest woman dies
A Chinese woman who was certified as the tallest in the world has died, an official from her hometown said…
China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars & Moon
Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test…
Egyptians storm the palace: Can this happen in Nigeria?
The Arab Spring is far from over, with the undying spirit of protest in Egypt, ignited by President Mohamed Morsi’s…
Unclaimed corpses of bomb victims in mortuary
Eight months after the bomb blasts at COCIN Church Headquarters and St. Finnbar Catholic Church in Jos,capital of Nigeria’s state…
Arsenal beaten in Greece
Arsenal’s dispiriting season took a turn for the worse on Tuesday as the Gunners crashed to a 2-1 defeat at…