Year: 2012
Biafra: Endless Sniping
Weeks after it broke out, the debate provoked by Chinua Achebe’s There Was A Country is still as bruising and…
Allow Your Starving People To Be Fed
Being the full text of the resignation letter of Robert S. Goldstein, Public Relations Representative of Biafra in the United…
My Pikin Syrup Maker Dies Of Stroke
The producer of ‘My Pikin’ teething mixture, Kola Gbadegbesin Okunlola, is dead. He had been standing trial alongside his company,…
How Police Recruit Criminals In The Force
The lack of trust between the citizens and members of the Nigeria Police Force has compounded the security challenges in…
Lagos Lawyers Back State Police
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Lagos chapter, on Sunday said that the establishment of state police would check the activities…
LG FUNDS: OBJ Slams State Govts
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the review of the local government laws to check among others, the excesses…
Okoli, Ladipo Market Leader Charged With Armed Robbery
The factional leader of Aguiyi-Ironsi International Market also known as Ladipo Market, Mushin, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Jonathan Okoli has been…
Obama’s Tough Road To Victory
By Ben Nanaghan Americans will troop to the polls to choose their President on November 6, 2012. Since the USRR…
Achebe’s War Memoir: Time For Ceasefire
More than a month after The Guardian of London published an excerpt from Professor Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There Was…
Understanding Igbo-Yoruba Unhealthy Rivalry (2)
By Abdul-Rahoof A. Bello The Nigerian contemporary politics started with nationalists struggle against colonialism but in the early 1920s, nationalist…
Involve Your Spouse In Your Personal Finance
We continued from where we stopped last week. The break lasted for quite a while. We all wanted to reflect…
Keshi Recalls Osaze For Nations Cup
England-based striker Osaze Odemwingie will be recalled by the Nigeria ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, after a…
Team Rufai Rule Football Clinic
Team Rufai have won the final of the Milo Football Clinic at the Campus Square mini stadium, Lagos Island, Lagos…
Basketball: Team Lagos Win City League
The Lagos State female team that are expected to compete for honours at the forthcoming National Sports Festival, NSF, in…
Basketball Has Brought Me Fame
To many people in Nigeria, playing basketball in the country is not a lucrative venture but for the fun of…
‘2012 Not Good For Nigerian Taekwondo’
The inability of Nigerian taekwondoists to shine at the London 2012 Olympic Games has left a sour taste in the…
Sports Festival: Team Ondo Sure Of Good Outing
Director of Sports of Ondo State, Mrs Idowu Akinbulumo said Team Ondo will give other states a run for their…
Voter turnout may decide Obama v Romney
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney remained in a virtual tie in the latest opinion poll released Sunday,…
Boko Haram: ‘We did not kill General Shuwa”
Nigeria’s dreaded insurgency group, Boko Haram, has denied involvement in the killing Major General Muhammed Shuwa, a Nigerian civil war…
Drogba, Mikel, Katongo make African Player of the year shortlist
Seun Bisuga The Confederation of African Football (CAF ) has announced the list of 10 nominees for the African Player…
Clashes in Libyan capital, car blast in Benghazi
TRIPOLI(AFP) – Libya’s two largest cities were rocked by violence on Sunday with clashes between militias wounding five in the…
Apple’s iPhone loses name battle with Mexico’s iFone
A Mexican telecommunications firm named iFone has declared victory in a trademark battle with Apple’s iPhone, exposing the US company…
Boko Haram:Tambuwal urges FG to embrace peace
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin To put an end to the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians, the Speaker of House of Representatives, Aminu…
Groom killed by gunmen on auto bike in Kano
A groom along with two friends were shot dead today by gunmen, operating on a motor bike, in Kano, northern…
AWC:Nigeria’s Falcons beat Ivory Coast
Tunde Oyedele Nigeria’s Super Falcons on Sunday defeated Cote d’Ivoire 3-1 in their last Group B match of the 2012…
Tax hostile states to pay more for phone service
Telecommunications operators and service providers under the aegis of Association of licensed Telecommunication Operators of Nigeria (Alton) have threatened to…
Boko Haram bomb police station, school, phone towers
Boko Haram gunmen with explosives have attacked a police station, a primary school and two cellphone towers in Fika, Yobe…
Relief materials for Nigeria’s flood victims diverted
Eromosele Ebhomele Two civil society groups, UK-based Tearfund and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have expressed “concerns that…
D’Banj Wins 2012 MOBO Award
NEHRU ODEH Popular Nigerian hiphop artiste, Dapo Daniel Oyebanji, better known as D’banj has won this year’s MOBO award for…
South Korea’s total debt soars to $2.75 tln
South Korea’s total public and private-sector debt soared to $2.75 trillion this summer due to greater spending to stimulate growth…