Year: 2013
Impeach Jonathan Now, Accord Party Urges NASS
The national leadership of Accord Party, AP, has thrown its weight behind the National Assembly over its decision to take…
Soyinka to Nigerian students: ‘don’t be discouraged’
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has urged Nigerian students, especially those residing in violence-prone areas of the…
Fashola: Lagos plants 4.6million trees
Kazeem Ugbodaga Governor Babatunde Fashola of Nigeria’s Lagos State said the government planted 4.6 million trees in the last six…
NDLEA: Baba Suwe Heads To Supreme Court
Kazeem Ugbodaga Ace Nigerian actor, Mr Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a. Baba Suwe has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against…
Heroic welcome for Al-Mustapha in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer, CSO, to the late Nigerian tyrant, General Sani Abacha wept in…
Ogun ACN suspends rep member, 12 others
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Action Congress of Nigeria in Yewa South local government area of Ogun State has suspended a…
Nigeria’s leading job site still has a job to do
LAGOS (AFP). When university student Ayodeji Adewunmi faced daunting hurdles in starting his own business in Nigeria, he turned to…
Anyaoku recommends way out of Nigeria’s crisis
Chief Emeka Anyaoku, a former Commonwealth Secretary-General, said that the only way to put an end to the problems and…
Jamaica’s Asafa Powell also fails dope test
Former world 100 metre record holder Asafa Powell confirmed on Sunday that he had failed a drugs test which will…
Cardinal Okogie condemns brawl in Rivers Assembly
Nigeria’s Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Archbishop Emeritus of Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, on Sunday expressed displeasure over the recent brawl…
Boko Haram: Women, children rescued, mass grave found
Nigeria’s military on Sunday claimed the rescue of women and children hostages from a Boko Haram Islamist stronghold, saying troops…
US Sprinter Tyson Gay fails dope test
US sprinter Tyson Gay, who posted 9.75 secs in 100metres, as season’s best, has failed a dope test, according to…
Rivers crisis: ACN urges Police agency look beyond symptoms
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has called on the Police Service Commission (PSC) to address the causes rather than…
ICC indicted Sudan’s Bashir heads to Nigeria for AIDS talks
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir travelled on Sunday to a health summit in Nigeria, official media said, after Human Rights Watch…
Ex-NFA Scribe, Achebe Buried
The remains of the deceased three-time Secretary General of the then Nigeria Football Association, NFA, Chief Philip Onuora Chikaodili Achebe,…
Man kills wife over breastfeeding of twins
JETHRO IBILEKE/Benin A middle aged Nigerian, Endurance Enadeba, has killed his wife in Benin, over an argument on breastfeeding of…
Aregbesola to build N14.5b road in Osogbo
Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of the western Nigerian state of Osun has inaugurated the construction of 18 km Osogbo east bypass…
Kidnapping: Lawmaker’s wife, 8 others rescued
The police in the eastern Nigerian state of Ebonyi have rescued the wife of a member of the state assembly…
Rights group urges Nigeria arrest Sudan’s Bashir
Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Nigeria to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir if he attends an African AIdS summit…
Shekau backs Yobe school massacre
The head of Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants said he supported a July 6 attack on a government owned school in…
Fulham’s new owner vows to build on Al-Fayed’s legacy
Fulham’s new owner Shahid Khan vowed to build on the foundations left by Mohamed Al Fayed as the Pakistan-born billionaire…
Robbery gang storms Taraba college
A gang of suspected armed robbers in the early hours of Saturday invaded the campus of Taraba State College of…
Anyim: Nigerians abroad remit $21b in 2012
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, said on Friday that Nigerians in Diaspora…
FIDA boss cautions men to respect rights of wives
The President, International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA), Ms. Hauwa Shekarau, has called on couples to always consider their children…
Fasheun lauds Al-Mustapha’s release
Founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasheun, has hailed Nigeria’s Appeal Court’s judgment acquitting Major Hamza Al-Mustapha…
Al-Mustapha visits TB Joshua
Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former chief security officer of Nigeria’s tyrant, General Sani Abacha, has paid a surprise visit to Pastor…
Wounded Rivers assemblyman flown abroad
The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, said in Port Harcourt on Friday that Michael Chinda, the wounded…
Mourinho to Euro rivals: ‘I’m better than before’
Jose Mourinho has warned that he is returning to Chelsea as a much better manager as he bids to win…
Boeing stocks plunge after Dreamliner fire
Boeing stocks plunged nearly 5 percent on Friday after a fire and a “technical issue” on separate 787 Dreamliners in…
Obasanjo leads AU election monitors to Zimbabwe
Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo will lead a team of 60 African Union monitors to Zimbabwe for the July 31…