Year: 2012
ACN Asks Jonathan To Remove Soldiers From Lagos
The Lagos State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to listen to the…
Robbers Raid Beer Depot
Gunmen at about 8.30 a.m. today raided a beer depot along Ikwerre road in Rumuigbo, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers…
Escape Of Boko Haram Suspect: Zakari Biu Faces Dismissal, Jail
Controversial Police Commissioner Zakari Biu who was suspended yesterday over the escape of Kabiru Sokoto, a suspected Boko Haram chieftain…
Woman Pays Prophetess N2.7m For Deliverance
A business woman, Mrs. Folashade Giwa is now counting her losses after she was made to part with about N2.7m…
Fuel Scarcity Bites Hard In Lagos
Long queues were observed at filling stations in several parts of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria today as fuel scarcity bites harder.…
Boko Haram Suspect’s Escape: Oritsejafor Wants Police CP Prosecuted
National President, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Ayo Oritsejafor has called for the immediate prosecution of the Commissioner of Police,…
Reps Begin Probe Of Subsidy Management
The ongoing probe of the management of fuel subsidy by the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee continued this morning with…
Truck Crashes Into Filling Station
Many people escaped death this morning on Ikorodu road in Lagos, following an accident involving a tipper truck. The truck,…
Lawyers Back Suspension Of Strike
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) says it supports the organised labour’s decision to suspend its strike because it will pave…
Judge Warns Against Disobedience Of Court Orders
An Abuja High Court judge, Justice Folasade Ojo, on Tuesday warned against the flagrant disobedience of court orders, by legal…
Keshi Cleared For SuperSport Job
Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has okayed Super Eagles’ head coach, Stephen Keshi, to work as a TV pundit at the…
Port Operators May Protest Over Demurrage
Mr. Jonathan Nicol, General Secretary of Shippers Association of Lagos State, on Tuesday said that port operators would protest demurrage…
Facts You Must Know: Subsidy Made Simple (SMS) —Tunde Bakare
Pastor ‘Tunde Bakare delivered this expose on Fuel Subsidy at The Latter Rain Assembly last Sunday. Please read, digest, and…
DPR To Force Filling Stations To Sell Petrol At N97 A Litre
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it will force filling stations that have petroleum products to sell at approved…
Remove Soldiers From Our Streets
The recent deployment of soldiers on the streets of Lagos by the Federal Government came as a shock to both…
Child No. 6 For 2Face
Those who believed pop icon, Innocent Idibia, popularly called 2face, when he told the world he was no longer sexually…
SERAP Tasks FG On Oil Cabal
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a human rights group, has urged the Federal Government to display exemplary political…
Oil Marketers Confirm Availability Of Petrol
Independent marketers and oil majors on Tuesday assured Nigerians of the availability of petrol in all their filling stations. They…
JTF Arrests 6 Suspected Boko Haram Leaders
The Joint Task Force (JTF) on Operation Restore Order (ORO) said in Maiduguri on Tuesday that it had arrested six…
Fuel Scarcity Hits Umuahia, Calabar, Aba
Umuahia, the Abia capital and its environs have been hit by fuel scarcity. An investigation by a News Agency of…
New Lawmakers Keep Lagos Assembly Strong
Within the first year of the seventh session of the Lagos State House of Assembly, the House has continued to…
Lagos Assembly Assures Of Rapid Completion Of Health Sector Projects
Chairman, Committee on Health Services, Lagos State House of Assembly, Suru Avoseh, has said that the state Ministry of Health…
Woman Remanded For Cutting Co-tenant’s Face With Blade
A 23-year-old housewife, Mrs. Angela Nzea, has been arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court on a one-count charge of using…
Housemaid Jailed 4 Years For Drugging Mistress, Stealing N6m Jewellery
An Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has sentenced a housemaid, Janet Phillip, to three years and six months imprisonment…
Police Nab Suspect, Recover Car, Arms
A team of anti-robbery Policemen attached to Victoria Island Police Station have arrested a suspected robber who attempted to steal…
5 Robbery Suspects Held
Men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested five robbery suspects in an…
Settle With ASUU Now, Students Urge Jonathan
As the nationwide strike embarked upon by organised labour ended following President Goodluck Jonathan’s reduction of fuel pump price to…
NANS Failed Students —DSRIC
The Defence for Students Rights Initiative Concern (DSRIC), a students’ group has berated the leadership of the National Association of…
Ojodu Grammar School Titans Re-Unite
The 1998 old students of Ojodu Grammar School (now Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School) recently held what they described as…
UNILAG Postpones Convocation
Authorities of the University of Lagos, Akoka, have postponed the school’s convocation ceremony, earlier scheduled to hold yesterday and today,…