Year: 2012
Pastor admits stealing ipad
A 45-year-old pastor, Peter Oladiti has appeared before an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court charged with stealing Ipad and other sets of…
Bank Manager Faces N30m Fraud Charge
Finbank Plc and one of its senior Manager, Rosemary Usifor alleged to have defrauded a retired Deputy Inspector General of…
LAWMA DefiesCourt Order, Demolishes Disputed Property
The land tussle between the late herbal practitioner, Professor Ojeih and Lagos state Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, took a dramatic…
De Klerk blames ANC for S/Africa’s economic problems
South Africa’s last apartheid president F.W. de Klerk has blamed the ruling ANC party for the country’s spiralling social and…
AFP: 6 Russians kidnapped off Nigeria freed
Six Russians and an Estonian kidnapped from a ship off Nigeria on October 15 have been released, French oil industry…
Post office shut after snake found in a parcel
Clerks at a South African post office fled for safety when they emptied a mail bag and a white python…
Okorocha orders closure of nudity clubs
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Nigeria’s Imo state has ordered the immediate closure of nudity clubs in the state, describing their…
Chelsea beat Man U in grudge match
London (AFP) – Chelsea claimed partial revenge for their stormy loss to Manchester United at the weekend by prevailing 5-4…
Serena Made Me Cry At Wimbledon, Says Okoya-Thomas
Tunde Oyedele The Asoju Oba of Lagos, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas has revealed that American tennis sensation, Serena Williams made him…
Akwa Ibom deputy governor quits
EMMA UNA/Calabar Mr Nsima Ekere, the Akwa Ibom State Deputy Governor resigned from his post on Wednesday afternoon following political…
Williams Sisters deny Nigerian root
Tunde Oyedele/Sports editor The Williams sisters, Serena and Venus have declared that they are purely Americans, saying they have no…
Civil Servants Abandon Duties In Search Of Fuel
Many civil servants in Jos abandoned their duty posts on Wednesday in search of petrol as acute scarcity of the…
Djokovic crashes out of Paris Masters
PARIS (AFP) – Serbia’s Novak Djokovic on Wednesday crashed out of the Paris Masters in his first match, losing 0-6,…
3 Suspected Boko Haram Sponsors Under Watch — IG
The Inspector General of Police, Mr Abubakar Mohammed, said on Wednesday in Abuja that the three people alleged to be…
Jonathan Swaps Two Ministers
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday effected a minor cabinet reshuffle, swapping Ministers of State for Power and Niger Delta Affairs,…
FinBank Directors Manipulated Shares -Witness
Head of Compliance and Enforcement Department with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Anafi Buba Mohammed today told…
Kalabaris Protest Over Plans To Cede 5 Communities To Bayelsa
Elders and Youths of Kalabari Wednesday staged a peaceful protest on the major streets of Port Harcourt , southsouth Nigeria,…
Lagos Assembly Promises Serious Scrutiny Of 2013 Budget
The Lagos State House of Assembly has said it is not prepared to grant easy passage to the 2013 budget…
Adekeye, Apex Court Jurist Bows Out
Supreme Court jurist, Justice Olufnlola Oyelola Adekeye, who attained the mandatory retirement age of 70 years on 28 October, retired…
Robbers Massacre Village Head, 19 Others
Armed robbers shot dead 20 people on Tuesday in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state, an area plagued by violent clashes between…
Fashola Presents N497b 2013 Budget
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State today presented a budget of N497.277 billion to the State House of Assembly for…
Constitution Amendment: NBA Insists On Referendum
The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) says only a referendum will bestow legitimacy on the outcome of Constitution amendment. The President…
3rd MAINLAND Bridge: Knocks, Kudos For Jonathan
Lagos residents have given more knocks and less kudos to the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government over the rehabilitation of…
Parents Seek Ban On Corporal Punishment
Some parents on Tuesday in Lagos called for the abolition of corporal punishment in primary and post-primary schools across the…
Assemblyman Tasks NASS Over Unemployment
The representative of Eti-Osa Constituency 2 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Gbolahan Yishawu, has urged the National Assembly…
Improve Yourselves, Lagos Lawmaker Urges Youths
The Deputy Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mrs. Lola Akande, has challenged Nigerian youths to re-dedicate themselves…
Achebe’s Book: Ohanaeze Chief Chides Yoruba Leaders
A former General Secretary of Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Ikeja, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Mr. Pascal Chimezie has condemned Yoruba leaders who…
38-Year Old Man Docked For Stealing
A 38-year old man, Chukwuma Eugene, has been arraigned before an Ikeja magistrates court, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, for fraud. He…
Is Life A Pennyworth?
By Isaac Asabor If there is any evil in our contemporary society that has assumed a worrisome dimension, it is…
Boko Haram: Actions Carry Consequences
By JOE IGBOKWE The article below was lifted from the Book, 2007: The IBB Option written by my humble self…