Year: 2013
Gravely-ill Mandela not in ‘vegetative state’
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – The South African government on Thursday denied that former president Nelson Mandela was in a permanent vegetative…
How Lisicki, Bartoli reached Wimbledon finals
LONDON(AFP) – Sabine Lisicki, the smiling darling of Centre Court, and eccentric Marion Bartoli, who happily slept away the minutes…
Robbery gang’s informant house for demolition
JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Police authorities in Nigeria’s Delta state said they would demolish the home of a man accused of being…
Tricycle Riders Amalgamate In Lagos as TWAN
Simon Ateba/Lagos Thousands of tricycle riders in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, came under one body on Thursday, setting the stage…
Land Speculators In Lagos Risk 3 Years Jail
EROMOSELE EBHOMELE If the bill being considered by the Lagos State House of Assembly, southwest Nigeria scales through, then the…
Uduaghan Sacks Finance Commissioner
JETHRO IBILEKE/Asaba Nigeria’s Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has sacked the Commissioner for Finance, Bernard Okumagba. Though no official…
Lagos State sets world record in tooth-brushing
Kazeem Ugbodaga Nigeria’s Lagos State has shattered the Guinness Book of World in tooth brushing previously set by India by…
PDP faction carpets Amaechi over Jonathan
A faction of Rivers State chapter of People’s Democratic Party believed to be sponsored by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of…
Jonathan plays the game without Amaechi
To President Goodluck Jonathan, incumbent Governor Rotimi Amaechi no longer counts in his calculus of winning Rivers State in the…
Court Frees Former Works Minister
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday discharged and acquitted former Nigerian Works Minister, Hassan Lawal and a…
Egypt: A Warning To Reckless African Rulers
African rulers who refuse to listen to the voice of the people may sooner or later face the fate of…
Nigerian Police And Arbitrary Charge
By Apata Akinsemoyin Mukaila Fellow Nigerians, whether we like to admit it or not, we have a group of untrained…
100 Years After, Lokoja Still Asleep!
By Taiwo Lawrence Adeyemi With barely some months away from to the celebration of Nigeria’s Centenary, Lokoja, the administrative capital…
Nigeria Drops In FIFA Rankings
The inability of the Super Eagles of Nigeria to progress beyond the group stage of the just concluded Brazil 2013…
Go Back To Basics, Veterans Tell NFF
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF have been advised to focus more on grassroots development as the only way Nigeria can…
Coup In Egypt: Nigerian Leaders Warned
As citizens of Egypt continue to celebrate the successful military ousting of their President, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood,…
Fake ‘Youth Corper’ To Serve In Prison
A suspected fake National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Opeyemi Ajala, 34, has been remanded in prison custody after he…
166 Suspects Arrested
At least 166 suspected hoodlums have been arrested in Oshodi, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, by the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental…
Oba Akran: I’m Alive
The Akran of Badagry, Oba Aholu Menu-Toyi 1, has debunked death rumours concerning him, saying he is hale and hearty.…
Lagos Bags Award For Local Bond Issue
Lagos State Government has again achieved a milestone in its financial prudence and debt management drive as it recently won…
Edo To Set Up Panel To Investigate Schools
The Edo State Government in southsouth Nigeria, is to set up a panel to investigate and identify the number of…
Osun Assembly Orders College To Reinstate Sacked Lecturers
The Osun State House of Assembly has issued a two-week ultimatum to the management of the state College of Education…
6 Workers Axed For Leaking Supreme Court Verdict
The Federal Judicial Service Commission, FJSC, has dismissed six judiciary workers implicated in the leakage of an undelivered judgment in…
Defending Our Votes
By Babafemi Ojudu Let me start my reflections on the sanctity of electoral mandates with a personal experience of the…
Political Prospects And Challenges
By Salihu Lukman Divide and rule is by far the dominant strategy in Nigeria’s contemporary politics. It thrives on zoning…
Jonathan’s 2015 Men
Some supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan are not only subtly campaigning, but are already laying the groundwork for a stress-less…
Nigeria’s Looming Crisis
Nigeria faces dire financial straits from developments in local and international oil markets After few days of bickering, the federal…
Nigerian Banks As Slave Camps
Apart from working like elephants and feeding like ants, bank workers are subjected to many unwholesome labour conditions by their…
Egypt’s interim leader sworn in
Egypt’s chief justice Adly Mansour was sworn in as the country’s interim president on Thursday, a day after the military…
Computer mouse inventor dies at 88
Douglas Engelbart, who revolutionized computing by inventing the mouse, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 88, the…