Year: 2012
Ezeugo To Keshi: Don’t Rely On Foreign-Based Players
Former Super Eagles defender, Emeka Ezeugo, has advised Super Eagles’ coach, Stephen Keshi, not to rely on foreign-based players in…
Oshodi Wants Commitment From Coaches
Lagos State Commissioner for Sports, Waheed Enitan Oshodi, has urged coaches and officials of the Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme to give…
Malaika To Celebrate In Dubai
Fuji music star, Sulaimon Alao Adekunle, a.k.a. Malaika, will celebrate his birthday in Dubai on 28 March 2011. In the…
Adopt-A-Talent Sports Programme: We’re Grooming Athletes For The Future In Lagos
Prince ‘Wale Oladunjoye, the Principal Senior Special Assistant on Grassroots Sports Development to Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, is the initiator…
House Committee Not Done with NSC
In this exclusive interview with FRANCIS ACHI in Abuja , Chairman, House Committee on Sports, Godfrey Alli Giaya, bares his…
Imoke Promises Obudu, Bekwara More Amenities
The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke has assured the people…
Kerosene Dealer Remanded Over N9m Fraud
A kerosene dealer has been arrested by policemen at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State, southwest…
Mountain Race: Imoke To Build 400 Houses
Four hundred housing units, 10 safari lodges, a football field, a race track, a basket ball pitch and a tartan…
Artisan Stabs Girlfriend To Death
An artisan was on Thursday charged before the Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to…
President Jonathan Unveils $1 billion Dangote Cement Plant
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has formally unveiled a new cement factory built by the Dangote Cement group at Ibese, Ogun…
Riot in Asaba,Onitsha: Hausas seek refuge in barracks
Rioting in Asaba, capital of Delta State and Onitsha, the neighboring city in Anambra state over a police killing has…
Fashola hands new houses to Lagos judges
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola SAN) on Thursday handed over five residential quarters built for High Court Judges by…
Court: NFF chiefs have a case to answer
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Former officials of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, who had been standing trial on a 10…
Suspended Judge seeks speedy decisions on case
Ousted former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Isa Salami on Thursday moved for a speedy adjudication of…
Gov Aregbesola assists Osun farmers with land
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State today gave 100 hectares of land situated at Iwo Farm Settlement to 20 large…
A flurry of moves to Stop Bayelsa poll
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja The last appears not to have been heard about the determination of embattled former governor of…
Amodu Storms Eagles Camp To Support Keshi
Former Super Eagles handler, Shuaibu Amodu was the August visitor to the team’s camp on Thursday morning ostensibly to encourage…
Eagles Battle For Shirts
With Stephen Keshi’s declaration that he would prune down the number of players in camp by this weekend from the…
Boko Haram, ACF And Igbo Exodus From The North: Implications For Nigeria —Henry Chukwuemeka Onyema
Recently I read the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) ‘s response to the massive Igbo exodus from Northern Nigeria in the…
Curbing This Systemic Disintegration —Gbenga Kayode
“If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless. It is better…
Time To Seek Alternative Funding For Nigerian Universities
After three months of industrial action, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called off its strike. As was…
Akunyili Asks INEC To Declare Her Winner
Professor Dora Akunyili of APGA has testified at the Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Awka in her petition challenging the…
Grandma Dies After Fight With Boxer
A boxer identified as Abiodun Aderinwale, a.k.a ‘Abey Ijangbon’ and others now at large, has been accused of punching a…
Akingbola’s Lawyers Reject Amendment Of Charges
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, Thursday adjourned till 2 April this year to decide whether the…
Boko Haram: Nigerians Flee To Cameroon
Nigerians have fled in droves to neighbouring Cameroon to escape violence claimed by the Islamist Boko Haram group and revenge…
Tenant Knocks Landlord Dead
A tenant has allegedly beaten his landlord, James Olufemi Aina, 47, to death. The incident occurred at Babalola Sukanmi Street,…
IG Visits Chief Of Defence Staff, Solicits Military Support
The Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, on Wednesday solicited the support of the military in addressing the current security…
Don’t Dialogue With Boko Haram, Jonathan Advised
A cleric, Prophet Solomon Olukunmi Ajao has advised President Goodluck Jonathan not to dialogue with the Boko Haram sect. The…
Army Bars Visitors From Barracks
The Army has tightened security at the 1 Mechanised Division, Kaduna following an attempt by suspected members of the Boko…
Onigbongbo LCDA To Become Shopping Mall
The buildings which house Onigbongbo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos state, southwest Nigeria, are to be demolished. In…