Year: 2012
Marseille FaceTough Challenge At Bayern
Marseille have a big challenge before them when they travel to Bayern Munich for their UEFA Champions League quarter-final second…
Sony Introduces Slimmest Voice Recorder
Sony, the leading consumer electronics brand, has announced the launch of ICD-TX50, the slimmest ever voice recorder that is just…
Headlines, Interview, News, Politics
Tinubu: My Life, My Story
Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, tells his story in a marathon interview with TheNEWS editors in…
Nestle Introduces Iron In New Maggi Cube
Nestle Nigeria has announced the introduction of iron in the new maggi cube. The firm, in a statement on Friday,…
Guinness Nigeria Celebrates World Water Day
Guinness Nigeria Plc has celebrated World Water Day with the commissioning of a complete mini waterworks comprising of boreholes, overhead…
Pink House Win Brilliant School Sports
Pink House won the second edition of Brilliant Esteem Inter-House Sports Championship held last weekend at the African Church Primary…
Tinubu: The Asiwaju of Hearts
Senator Babafemi Ojudu Many have written about Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s political prowess and organizational astuteness. One is tempted to join…
Shoprite Donates To Care Centre
The unique efforts of German-born Mrs. Hildegard Maria Ebigbo, proprietor of the Therapeutic Day Care Centre (TDCC), Abakpa Nike, Enugu…
An Appreciation of Tinubu at 60
Bayo Onanuga You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. —Henry David Thoreau, a…
Man U go five points clear of City
Manchester United went five points clear at the top of the Premier League after late goals by Antonio Valencia and…
Bill Gates boosts yam research with $12m
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $12-million (nine-million-euro) grant Monday to a project aimed at boosting yam production…
US seeks to list Boko Haram as terror group
Two Republican lawmakers on Monday urged the United States to designate Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a terrorist group, warning not…
Court Okays Pasting Charge On Sylva’s House
The case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, against former Bayelsa state governor, Timipre Silva, proceeded on…
Lagos denies Okada ban
Despite the continued arrest of commercial motorcycle operators also known as Okada riders in some parts of Lagos by the police, the…
Robbers Shoot Policeman, Snatch N3.5m
A gang of armed robbers Monday morning shot a police officer when they opened fire at a police post in…
Lady Gang-Raped By 10 Men Inside Hotel Room
Three suspects have been arrested by the police in Lagos after ten men allegedly abducted and gang-raped a 27-year old…
Okada Riders Storm Court Over Ban
Thousands of commercial motorcycle riders also known as okada riders today stormed the Ikeja High Court where they instituted a…
New Art Gallery Opens In Lagos
A new art gallery named Kongi’s Harvest Art Gallery, has been opened inside the Freedom Park, Broadway, Lagos state by…
Bomb Scare At NNPC Headquarters
Security was beefed up this morning around the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, building located around Central Area of Abuja,…
Chaos At Airports As Fuel Scarcity Paralyses Flights
Thousands of exasperated passengers waited for hours yesterday at the country’s airports to board planes as aviation fuel scarcity paralysed…
13-Year Old Rape Victim Delivers Baby
A 73-year old man who allegedly defiled a 13-year old girl, leading to her pregnancy and birth of a baby,…
Court Frees Akingbola
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos Southwest Nigeria this morning, struck out the 20-count criminal charge of money laundering…
53 Arrested Over Varsity Crisis
Benue State Police Command has arrested 53 persons in connection with the crisis that rocked Benue State University, Makuradi, recently,…
World Bank: Nigeria lobbies diplomats for Okonjo-Iweala
The Nigerian Government on Monday in Abuja intensified lobbying for the World Bank Presidency candidature of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala with…
Lagos Denies Banning Okada operators
The Lagos State Government has not banned the operations of commercial motorcyclists, known as okada riders, on Lagos roads, the…
Nigerian Vigilante Group Arrests Herbalist with two skulls
A 50-year-old herbalist, Felix Ogunbanwo has been arrested by the Ijebu-Ode Obanta Safe and Secure Vigilante Group with two human…
Nigerian state swears in new governor
Barely 24 hours after they were declared winners in the Kebbi governorship re-run election, Alhaji Saidu Dakingari and his Deputy,…
Heart disease risks add to asbestos workers’ woes
Already facing heightened risks of cancer, asbestos workers also run a greater danger of heart disease and stroke, a British…
Pastor David Oyedepo Plc
Nigeria’s richest pastor and Winners’ Chapel founder, David Oyedepo, flaunts a vast business empire worth billions of naira. And there…