Year: 2013
Housewife Remanded For Murder
An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Tuesday remanded a 21-year-old housewife, Rebecca Bassey, in prison custody over alleged…
Floods Displace 7m Nigerians —NEMA
At least seven million Nigerians were displaced in various floods recorded nationwide by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in…
NAHCO Shed Shut Over Crisis
A crisis between clearing and forwarding agents and men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, left NAHCO shed shut on…
Go For Goals, Odegbami, Disu, Others Charge Eagles
Barely three days before the crucial 2014 World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Flames of…
Nigeria Versus Malawi: Saintfiet On Vengeance Mission To Calabar
The war of words between Super Eagles Chief Coach, Stephen Keshi and his Malawian counterpart, Tom Sainfiet would be settled…
U.S. Open: Serena, Li Na Clash In S/Final
Serena Williams, the top-ranked defending champion, inflicted the most lopsided US Open women’s quarter-final defeat in 24 years on birthday-girl…
DStv League Playoffs: B/Ball Clubs Begin Title Chase
Four teams, two each from the Savannah and Atlantic conferences, will begin battle for the Nigerian basketball league title when…
NYG: Lagos To Select B/Ball Teams From Academies
Most of the players to represent Lagos State at the National Youth Games in December in Abuja will be selected…
Rita Marley, Son To Storm Felabration 2013
Rita Marley, wife of the late reggae music icon, Bob Marley, has agreed to participate in this year’s Felabration Festival,…
Udy To Present ‘An Evening Of Hope’
After six years of regaling audiences with profound stories of persons who triumphed over some of the most daunting challenges,…
6 Jailed For Public Disturbance
An Abuja Grade 2 Area Court in Kado on Tuesday in the FCT sentenced six men to four months imprisonment…
Symphony Bows Out Of Glo X-Factor
After their narrow escape from the eviction axe penultimate weekend, Symphony, the only group remaining in Glo X-Factor, has finally…
M-Net Launches Silver Screening
M-Net Movies, the popular movie channels on DStv, is taking the subscribers’ movie experience beyond their home couch to the…
Hunger Drove Me Into Stealing —Suspect
A 27-year old theft suspect, Marvellous Moris, has allegedly confessed in court that hunger drove him into stealing a handset…
Woman Knocks Off Neighbour’s Teeth
A 35-year old woman has been arrested and charged before a Lagos court for allegedly assaulting her neighbour by knocking…
Niger Delta group threatens Amaechi, new violence
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt A new Niger Delta group, styled as Coalition of Militant Action for the Niger Delta, COMA, has…
Analysis: Tested by dissent, PDP in unfamiliar territory
The party that has controlled Nigeria’s presidency since a return to civilian rule in 1999 has found itself in unfamiliar…
Football: Odemwingie keen to impress at Cardiff
Nigeria’s Peter Osaze Odemwingie is eager to get back to playing football following his £2.5 million ($3.8 million) transfer deadline…
Nigeria’s radio-TV stations go digital 2014
The Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Mr Emeka Mba, said on Tuesday that broadcasting houses in Abuja, Lagos…
Reports: Circumcision lowers AIDs/HIV infection
A follow-up probe into the use of circumcision to thwart the AIDS virus has confirmed that foreskin removal greatly reduces…
Kidnappers of lawmaker’s wife killed in Delta
JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Freeborn Okwundu and Monday Ekpeki, suspected to be members of a dare-devil kidnap gang, have been killed by…
Atiku denies campaign billboards
Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has dissociated himself from the dramatic appearance of campaign billboards and posters being mounted…
Nigerian Stowaway boy handed over to Edo state officials
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin Stowaway 13-year-old Master Daniel Ricky Oikhena was Tuesday handed over to the Edo state Ministry of Women Affairs…
Microsoft takes over Nokia phones
Mobile phone pioneer Nokia on Tuesday announced the sale of its sinking handset business to software giant Microsoft, which is…
PDP Senate Caucus Asks Suntai To Go For Further Treament
A Senate team sent to Taraba State to assess the health of the State Governor, Danbaba Suntai, arrived Jalingo, the…
PDP Peace Talks Fail, Caucus Disowns Oyinlola, Others
As several peace talks held by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, to resolve the crisis in the…
Oil Pollution: Fashola Orders OPD To Sue Civil Defence
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has ordered the Office of the Public Defender, OPD, to take legal action against…
Conduct Of Census In 14 LGs: Lagos Plans Legal Action
The Lagos State Government says it is considering seeking redress in court to compel the National Population Commission, NPC, to…
Housewife Commits Suicide
A 25 year-old housewife, Sakirat Abdullai, allegedly committed suicide in Ijebu-Ode, after allegedly taking a meal of pap, mixed with…
Dissent In PDP Worsens
The party that has controlled Nigeria’s presidency since a return to civilian rule in 1999 has found itself in unfamiliar…