Year: 2012
Police vow to free retired army general’s wife
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN As the search for Titilayo, the wife of the Military Governor of the old Western Region , Brig-Gen…
Mass weddings on 12-12-12
Thousands of couples in Asia flocked Wednesday to tie the knot on 12/12/12, seeking good fortune for marriages begun on…
Abducted Kamene Okonjo’s police guards face probe
Two Nigerian police officers who were not at their assigned posts at the home of the mother of the country’s…
50 vehicles smashed as granite truck kills 7 students
No fewer than seven students of Itori Comprehensive High School, Itori, were killed on Wednesday in a motor accident that…
Court: Ex-Nigerian governor has a case to answer
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN JUSTICE Akintunde Boade of the Ibadan High Court has declared that former Oyo state governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala,…
Nigerian Court lifts order on Capital Oil
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Nearly a month after a Federal High Court made an order freezing his accounts and granting…
Senator Ndume spoke with Boko Haram man 73 times
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian High Court siting in Abuja was on Wednesday told that Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume,…
Mandela responding to treatment, say doctors
Doctors caring for former South African President, Nelson Mandela, said he was responding to treatment for a lung infection, the…
Marwa: ‘I’m still in CPC’
The governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa state, north eastern Nigeria, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa,…
ASUU ready for dialogue with Amaechi
The Rivers State University of Science and Technology ASUU chapter said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that it was ready…
INEC Chief calls for 5 parties in Nigeria
The state commissioner for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Rivers said on Wednesday that a five-party system would…
Nigeria: Bees stop students exam
A swarm of bees has disrupted the on-going second semester examination at Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola, in Nigeria’s north east.…
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Nigeria: Babalakin’s Counsel Withdraws
The trial of the embattled Managing Director of Bi Courtney Ltd, Dr. Wale Babalakin by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
Lagos Police Boss: No Deal With Motor Park Touts
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abubakar Umar Manko, spoke with MOYO FABIYI and LUCKY LAWAL on the enforcement of the…
Pastors Will Buy More Jets —Bishop Oke
The National Vice President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Southwest, Bishop Francis Oke, has asked those criticising pastors…