Year: 2012
Chika Ike Bags UN Ambassador Award
Nollywood actress, Chika Ike, has joined the legion of movie and music stars selected for the prestigious United Nations Ambassador…
First 10 Rock Nigerian Idol Top-30
In an exciting way, the competition is getting hotter on Nigerian Idol, the country’s biggest music reality show, as the…
Hyundai Aims To Sell 7m Vehicles In 2012
Hyundai Motor announced recently that it is targeting to sell seven million vehicles worldwide this year, an increase of 6…
Hello, There’s A New Lada
Assuming that there are any Lada fans out there, this is rather big news – considering how seldom the Russian…
NLC To Shut Down Nigeria
After an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC,…
Mass Protest Continues In Ilorin
Protest over the removal of fuel subsidy continued Wednesday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, as hoodlums hijacked it, setting…
Jonathan’s Loyalists Lambast IBB
The issue of fuel subsidy removal has pitched former military dictator, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, IBB, against loyalists of President…
NLC Meets Over Strike, Economic Activities Low
The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and other trade unions today held a…
How Death Row Actress Rabi, Escaped From Prison
Rabi Ismaila, the Nigerian actress who was recently sentenced to death by hanging, has escaped from the Hadejia prison in…
3 Killed As Cult Groups Clash In Ijebu Ode
A clash between cult groups in different parts of Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, Southwest, Nigeria has left three persons dead while…
Fashola Signs Year 2012 Appropriation Bill Into Law
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday signed into law the State’s Year 2012 Budget with a call on…
BUK Students Join Protest
Students of Bayero University, BUK, Kano today gathered at the Silver Jubilee roundabout to protest the removal of subsidy on…
Landlord Batters Tenant’s Wife Over Sex
A Lagos landlord, Nuru Rasaki of 7, Michael Adeboye Street, Idimu Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, has been arraigned before Ejigbo…
Light Traffic In Lagos
Following the multiplier effect of removal of fuel subsidy on the Nigerian populace there is light traffic on some Lagos…
Glo Tasks NFF On Nigerian Football
Telecommunications giant, Globacom has called on the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to diagnose the challenges facing the nation’s football and…
Boko Haram: People Stay at home in Kaduna
By Femi Adi/Kaduna As the three-day ultimatum issued by the dreaded Boko Haram sect for Southerners to leave the north…
Subsidy Protests: Ibadan Streets Empty
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Three days after the Federal Government removed fuel subsidy in Nigeria, the effect has been biting harder as…
Subsidy Removal Will Increase Poverty — Ikuforiji
Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has lamented the New Year day removal of fuel subsidy…
House Adopts Law Reform Commission Report
In a bid to improve the judicial system of Lagos State, the state House of Assembly has adopted the Law…
Man Docked For N4.6m Fraud
A middle-aged man has been sent to Kirikiri prison for defrauding innocent persons to the tune of over N4.6 million.…
Poly Expels 11 For Exam Malpractices
Authorities of the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, have expelled 11 students for examination malpractices during the 2010/2011 academic session.…
Mob Nabs Robbery Suspect With Gun
Luck ran out on an armed robbery suspect when he was overpowered by an angry mob at Igando area of…
Bid To Rob Girl Of N.7m Foiled
Men of State Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arrested some armed robbers, who attempted to snatch…
Togolese Sets Customer’s Car Ablaze
A Togolese, Monday Kaojo, 30, has been arraigned before the Igbosere Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on a one-count charge of setting…
Fire: Oko Baba Residents Send SOS To Fashola
Residents of Okobaba in Ebute Meta, Lagos Mainland Local Government Area have appealed to the Lagos State government to come…
No Evidence To Prosecute Customs Boss — Lagos AG
Lagos State Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ade Ipaye, says there is no sufficient evidence to prosecute the Comptroller-General of the…
Osaile Taunts Team Nigeria, Says They Are Going To London For Tourism
A member of the Association of Veteran Sports Administrators Forum, Martins Osaile, has taunted the Nigerian contigent to the London…
2005 Set Win Adeshina Cup
The Project Team 2005 Set of Adeshina Football Club have won the 2011/2012 Adeshina Football Championship which was played at…
Gaya Slams Jonathan Over Sports Budget
Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Sports, Godfrey Gaiya, has criticised the government of Goodluck Jonathan for not mentioning sports in the…
Students Win At Osita Iheme’s Annual Quiz Competition
Worried by the prevalent decline in reading culture among secondary school students and the erroneous belief that youngsters must take…