Year: 2012
Unilever plc declares dividend after profit rises
Shareholders of Unilever Plc will smile home in May with a dividend payout of N1.40 per share. The conglomerate in…
Inter Sack Ranieri
Inter Milan sacked coach Claudio Ranieri late on Monday after a string of poor results, which has left the Serie…
Volleyball Star Dies After Heart Attack
Former Olympic silver medallist, Vigor Bovolenta, has died after suffering a heart attack during an Italian fourth-tier match. Bovolenta, who…
Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme: Erico Seeks Parents’ Support
The newly appointed Chief Coach of Football of Adopt- A-Talent Sports Programme, Joe Erico, has advised parents to support their…
Keshi Hails Board On Awards
Super Eagles’ chief coach, Stephen Keshi, has praised the efforts of the board of the Nigeria National League, NNL, for…
National League Board Commends Clubs
The board of Nigeria National League, NNL, has expressed satisfaction that all the 36 clubs in the league played to…
Sports Festival Table Tennis: Lagos To Open Camp Soon
Lagos State’s ping pongers would soon be called to camp ahead of the 2012 National Sports Festival. Chairman of the…
Poor Facilities Cripple Nigerian Tennis
For the progress of every game, human endeavour or project, there has to be a consistent supply of resources and…
FIFA U-17 Women World Cup: NFF Plans Training Tour For Flamingoes
Having qualified for the under 17 FIFA Women’s World Cup to be held in Azerbaijan in September, Nigeria Football Federation,…
APOEL Tackle Real
APOEL’s historic run in the Champions League will receive the ultimate test tonight when the tiny Cypriot club takes on…
FA Cup: Tottenham Host Bolton
Tottenham Hotspurs will be looking for their first win in five matches when they take on Bolton Wanderers in a…
Chelsea Face Benfica In Unfamiliar Battle
Benfica will play hosts to their English counterparts, Chelsea in first leg of UEFA champions league quarter final fixture tonight.…
Was There A Country? —Chido Onumah
Two compatriots have commented publicly on the title of my book, “Time to Reclaim Nigeria”. At the public presentation of…
Asiwaju, The Kohinoor (Jewel Of Mankind) @60: Leadership Is Earned —Joe Igbokwe
In 1994, the late General Sani Abacha and his deputy General Diya organised a Constitutional Conference to chart a new…
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu: A Democrat At 60
For the past five days, activities to mark the 60th birthday of the National Leader of the Action Congress of…
Analysts Lament Erosion Of Consumers’ Rights
As the saying goes, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers. The unsavoury experience of the grass in this analogy…
Firm Develops Tracker For Stolen Phones
An Information Technology firm, TracknShield Limited, has developed a mobile phone anti-theft solution to combat phone theft in the country.…
NCC Unseals Tecno Office
A week after the office of Tecno Telecom Limited was sealed by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) over its failure…
Etisalat Introduces New BlackBerry Bundle Offer
Nigeria’s most innovative and fastest growing telecommunications company, Etisalat, is introducing a new and exciting Blackberry bundle offer. The offer…
Maltina Dangles Five New Homes As Sharing Happiness Promo Begins
Five lucky Nigerians would soon witness a radical turnaround in their lives as the home brewed non-alcoholic malt drink Maltina…
Forum Changes Name
Patriotic Forum, a vibrant socio-political pressure group which started as an online social media group on Facebook, has transformed into…
Nigerian jailed for fraud in South Africa
A Nigerian, Vuyani Vongwe was on Monday sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by a South African Magistrate’s Court for being…
Confusion Over Loud Noise Near US Embassy In Nigeria
There were controversies on the nature of sound heard around the vicinity of the United States’ Embassy in Nigeria’s capital,…
We’ll Work To Replicate Korean Miracle In Nigeria –Jonathan
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Monday in Seoul that his Administration was working very hard to replicate in Nigeria the…
N4.56b Pension Scam: EFCC Seizes Shuaibu’s Properties
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has seized six properties belonging to Dr. Sani Teidi Shuaibu, a former Director,…
Abducted Senator’s Wife Released
Five days after Mrs Asime Sekibo, wife of Senator George Thompson Sekibo, of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), representing…
Julius Berger’s profit goes up, offers dividends
Nigeria’s leading construction company Julius Berger has declared a profit after tax of N4.87 billion for 2011, almost 90 per…
Okonjo-Iweala opens campaign for World Bank job
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s finance minister and super minister, who has the endorsement of her country, South Africa and Angola for…
Another Finger Chopped Off
Barely a week after the finger of Yinka Oyedele, a JSS3 student of Eric Moore Secondary School, Surulere, Lagos, was…
Abuja Bomb Blast: Army Captain Charged In Lagos
A retired Army Captain arrested in connection with the Independence Day bomb blast on 1 October, 2010 at Eagle Square,…