Year: 2013
Ethiopia Vow To Defeat Eagles
Ethiopia coach Bishaw Sewnet has vowed his men will give whatever it takes to overturn a first-leg defeat when they…
Dos And Don’ts Of Relationships 2
By Aidy Thomas There are so many publications on relationship now than it has ever happened in history. In almost…
Cycling: WACU Promises Quality Programmes
Mohammed Sheriff, the President, West African Cycling Union, WACU, said that the union would promote cycling in the West African…
N2.7b Fraud: Ex-Oyo Pension Boss, 11 Others Remanded
Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Oyo State High Court has ordered that the former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs.…
INEC Deploys 362 Generators
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has began deploying over 362 electricity generating sets to the 362 wards across Anambra State…
ThisDay Bomber Jailed For Life
Mustapha Umar, a self confessed Boko Haram member arrested and tried before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja in…
Jonathan v Amaechi: Suspended peace-making bishops to sue CAN
Jethro Ibileke/Benin “Blessed are the peace makers”, so the Holy Book says. In Nigeria, the efforts by some clerics in…
Another American insults Nigerians over Obamacare
It seems President Barack Obama haters in the US love picking Nigerians as soft targets in their campaign against Obama’s…
Nigeria consoles families of slain polio vaccinators with cash gifts
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Nigeria’s government has donated N3 million each to family members of the 10 health workers that were assassinated…
Festus Iyayi for burial in December
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The burial ceremony of Prof. Festus Iyayi, the former President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has…
Ajimobi: I was under pressure in selecting aides
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Governor Abiola Ajimobi of the western Nigerian state of Oyo today reflected on happenings after the dissolution of…
Tunde Sanni, ThisDay reporter dies
The Oyo State Correspondent of ThisDay newspaper, Mr Tunde Sanni, is dead. The 49 year-old journalist died today at Ijebu…
Pension scam accused remanded in prison
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Nigerian High Court, in Ibadan, Oyo state today ordered that the former Head…
Anambra election: Heavy security presence at INEC
FOLARIN ADEMOSU/Awka Ahead of Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra State, eastern Nigeria, a large detachment of anti-riot policemen and men…
French football clubs call off strike over 75 percent tax
Clubs in the top two divisions of French football announced on Thursday that they have postponed a strike planned for…
Fashola vows to sack commissioners using siren
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, western Nigeria, has vowed to sack any of his commissioners who will dare to…
Deji Falae Buried
The the late Ondo State Commissioner for Tourism, Barrister Ayodeji Olaniran Falae, who died in the Associated Airline plane that…
2014 World Cup: We’re 90 Minutes Away From Brazil –Keshi
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has warned that the country are yet to qualify for next year’s World Cup despite a…
Baba Omojola: The Curtain Falls On An Era
By Olumuyiwa Jimoh “…We have fought our common enemy together before in the same trench, we have tasted the bruises,…
Anambra 2013: It Is Ngige All The Way
By Joe Igbokwe As the decision time draws near in Anambra State, a lot of forces are at play now.…
Pilgrims’ Progress
By Ademola Adegbamigbe President Goodluck Jonathan recently visited Israel. It was a mission that combined promotion of bilateral relations between…
The Crazy 22-Hour Curfew In Anambra
The 22-hour restriction on movement from midnight on Friday 15 November, to 10p.m. on Saturday 16 November during the Anambra…
Landlord Defiles Tenant’s 10- Yr Old Daughter
Police detectives from Igando Police Station in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, have arrested a 42-year old landlord for allegedly defiling a…
More Tributes For Festus Iyayi
More tributes have continued to pour in for former President of the Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Festus Iyayi,…
Land Speculator Shot Dead
Policemen at the Agbado Police Division in Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, western Nigeria, have recovered the corpse…
8 Hours Of Work: Why Danfo Drivers Are Restricted
The Lagos State Government has further explained why it decided to restrict commuter bus drivers, popularly called Danfo drivers in…
Kidnappers of French priest leave Paris with puzzles
Who did it? The French Foreign Ministry has been trying to decode the identity of the kidnappers of a French…
Movie: Kemi Lala dazzles in Kelani’s Dazzling Mirage
Kemi Lala Akindoju, one of Nigeria’s famed professional actors, shines in the latest Tunde Kelani movie ‘Dazzling Mirage’, which is…
In Picture: APC Leaders Visit Brg. Gen Samuel Ogbemudia
In continuation of their mobilisation and sensitisation visits to opinion moulders in Nigeria, the leaders of the All Progressives Congress…
Anambra Poll: APC Tasks Jonathan To Keep Pledge On Fair Election
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to live up to his promise of a free and…