Year: 2012
Bolt eyes more gold at Commonwealth Games
Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt now wants to add Commonwealth Games gold to his medal haul after…
Nadal to make Abu Dhabi, Doha return
Rafael Nadal will end his six-month, injury-enforced absence from tennis by playing back-to-back tournaments in the Gulf before launching his…
Referee Clattenburg in Mikel Obi’s case returns
Referee Mark Clattenburg will return to action this weekend after being cleared of racially abusing Chelsea’s John Obi Mikel, the…
Koroma takes oath, begins second term journey
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma was sworn-in as president Friday night after a convincing win and vowed to transform the…
Reports: 20 ladies in mini-skirts killed in Maiduguri
Twenty Nigerian ladies in trousers and mini-skirts were killed overnight by yet to be identified gunmen in the troubled Nigerian…
Powerful Nigerian delegation goes to Rome
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has sent a powerful delegation headed by the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark…
School vandal jailed 18 months
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin An Oredo Magistrate Court sitting in Benin, capital of Nigeria’s Edo state, has sentenced 18 year-old Ogunbajo Olumide…
Ibori’s $15m: Court dismisses interloper
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja Justice Gabriel Kolawole of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Friday declined to grant…
Governor Uduaghan budgets $2.7 billion for 2013
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has presented a budget of N398.31 billion, about…
Supreme Court clears way for Governor Audu’s Trial
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on November 23, 2012, recorded a major victory in the trial of former…
Sierra Leone: Koroma re-elected for second term
Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma swept to a second term Friday, winning 58 percent of votes in a poll that…
Brazil sack Mano Menezes
Mano Menezes was sensationally sacked as coach of five-time world champions Brazil on Friday, dealing a hammer blow to the…
N50m offered for capture of Boko Haram’s Shekau
Nigeria’s military went the way of USA’s FBI, offering Friday hundreds of thousands of dollars in rewards for information leading…
PDP Threatens EFCC Over Ikuforiji’s Trial
The Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed intention to file a petition against the Economic and…
Constitutional Review: Fresh Case For Lagos Special Status
Lagos State, southwest Nigeria had been the Federal Capital of the nation since Nigeria attained nationhood in 1960. Lagos, with…
Lagos Assembly Begins Inspection Of LG Projects
The Lagos State House of Assembly has begun an inspection tour of all the 20 local government areas and the…
Fani-Kayode’s Trial Fixed For 11 Feb
A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Thursday fixed 11 February, 2013 for the commencement of trial of a former Minister…
LASG Floats N80b Bond For Projects Completion
The Lagos State Government has signed financial deal to raise N80 billion through Bond with Chapel Hill Limited as lead…
Ebonyi’ll Adhere To Rules –Utobo
The Director, Ebonyi Sports Council, Dr Emma Utobo, said that participating in the bi-ennial National Sports Festival (NSF) is of…
‘Elite Athletes Bad For Games’
Cecilia Arinye, an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Blue-Badged Umpire decried the use of elite athletes by the states in…
Ekiti’s 150-Man Team Ready
The Ekiti State Director of Sports, Olukayode Adewunmi, said that Team Ekiti’s compact 150-man contingent for the 18th National Sports…
National Sports Festival: Plateau To Present 399 Contingent
The Plateau Commissioner for Sports Development, James Yakubu, said that a contingent of 399 athletes and officials would represent the…
Ondo Volleyball Team Vow To Defend Title
The Ondo State Volleyball team said that they ready to defend the title they won at the 17th National Sports…
Woman Of The House
Many women around the world have come to a point in their marriage where they are unsure whether the…
Lagos SWAN Cup: TheNews Draw NTA, Vanguard
The football team of THENEWS/P.M.NEWS, have been drawn to play in Group D of the 2012 Lagos Sports Writers Association…
FAB Rolls Out Award Nominees
FAB Magazine, the international lifestyle publication, has revealed its star-studded nominees list for this year’s edition of FAB Awards. The…
The Davido, Wizkid Rivalry
The streets have been buzzing with suggestions of a cold war between two music raves, Davido and Wizkid. Though both…
Adekunle: How I Coped In Prison
General Prince Adekunle, Juju music star of the 70s, recently clocked 70. In this interveiw, he tells Entertainment Café about…
Actors Plan Big For Pete Eneh’s Burial
Members of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria, AGN, are planning to give the late actor, Pete Eneh, a befitting burial.…
Jim Iyke Gets Excellence Award
Actor Jim Iyke has been nominated for an award for his contributions to the movie industry. The award presentation is…