Year: 2012
Diya Fatimilehin Dragged To Court Over Breach Of Contract
Two allottees of land at Federal Housing Authority(FHA) Diamond Estate, Isheri Olofin, Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, Mrs. Felicia Olatubokun Ogunsulire…
Toyota Camry May Win Mid-Size Sedan Sales War
The view from the top continues to look really, really good: top executives at Toyota Motor Sales says the number-one-selling…
Merc’s New Actros Wins Two Awards
Mercedes Benz is in the news again; and this time the new Mercedes-Benz Actros has won not one but two…
‘PDP Has Nothing But Failure To Teach Lagos’
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has told the Lagos PDP and Olabode George that the Fashola government…
Ejection: Tenants Seek Fashola’s Help
There appears to be respite for nine tenants at 34, Paul Okuntola Street, Idi Araba, Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, since…
2 Chinese workers killed in Northern Nigeria
Two Chinese construction workers have been killed by gunmen in the town of Benishek in Nigeria’s volatile northeast. The killing…
Banyana Send Nigeria’s Falcons Out Of AWC
BIMBO AJAYI African champions, Super Falcons of Nigeria today lost 1-0 to hard fighting South African female team, the Banyana…
Nigeria ahead of Greece in credit ratings
Nigeria, Kenya and Zambia, three of Africa’s most dynamic economies, received their first sovereign ratings from the Moody’s agency on…
Boko Haram bombs army convoy in Mubi
Mubi, the nigerian town in Adamawa state, where scores of students were slaughtered on independence day, is back in the…
Ameobi gets Super Eagles duty call
Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi has been handed his first call-up by Nigeria for a friendly next week against Venezuela in…
Ghana Mall Collapse Kills 3, Dozens Trapped
A six-storey shopping mall collapsed in the Ghanaian capital Accra on Wednesday, with at least three people so far confirmed…
Jonathan Congratulates Obama
President Goodluck Jonathan has, on behalf of himself, the Federal Government and the people of Nigeria congratulated President Barack Obama …
Obama Floors Romney
Barack Hussein Obama, whose father hailed from Kenya, East Africa, has been re-elected President of the United States of America,…
Protesters Teargassed As Cameroon’s Biya Marks 30yrs In Power
Cameroonian security forces used teargas to disperse about a thousand opposition supporters who had gathered in the commercial capital on…
Boyfriend Pushes UNILAG Student Off Storey Building
A 21-year-old student has been hospitalised, after she was allegedly pushed down from the third floor of the multi-storey building…
YABATECH Lecturer Arrested Over Child Abuse
A lecturer in the Business Administration Department, Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Mr. Joseph John has been arrested for beating…
Court Strikes Out Case Against ‘My Pikin’ Producer
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria this morning struck out the name of ‘My Pikin’ teething mixture…
Motorcyclist Sent To Jail For Stripping
The commercial motorcyclist who allegedly stripped himself naked on Acme Road, Ogba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, on Monday, has been sent…
Centre Admits 2,806 Snake Bite Patients
At least 2,806 patients were admitted at the Snake Bite Treatment and Research Centre, Kaltungo, Gombe State from January to…
Hajj Death Toll Hits 36
Common cold has become the top killer infection among Nigerian pilgrims performing this year’s Hajj with total death toll now…
Student Caught With Cocaine
A twenty-three year old Nigerian student of Management Accounting at Waltham College in London has been arrested with cocaine, the…
Some Of Our Roads Very Bad
Chairman of the Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Works, Rotimi Olowo, speaks with Assembly Matters, on the condition…
ACN Is Not Losing Face In South West
There is growing concern that the popularity of the Action Congress of Nigeria, CAN, is waning in Lagos State but…
Tafida And Abandoned Nigeria House
By Adama Yusuf I sometimes wonder if the challenges facing Nigeria as a nation are so immense or galling that,…
Understanding Igbo-Yoruba Unhealthy Rivalry (4)
By Abdul-Rahoof A. Bello In all honesty, There Was A Country has made it difficult to convince non-Igbo Nigerians that…
Stop Using Brute Force To Enforce Traffic Law
The unjustifiable shooting of a commercial motorcyclist, known in local parlance as okada riders, Adigun Atilola, yesterday by police officers…
Diet Tricks You Must Not Fall For
Those of us pursuing health and fitness for body and soul have chosen the road less travelled. We came to…
Banyana Vow To Upset Falcons
Banyana Banyana are desperate to grab a win in their semi final clash against Africa’s Number 1 ranked women’s team,…
Eagles Rise In FIFA Ranking
Nigeria’s Super Eagles have moved six places to 57th spot in the November ranking made public today by the world…
Can Banyana Banyana Break Falcons’ Jinx?
The die is cast and the stage is set, as the Banyana Banyana of South Africa file out today to…