Year: 2013
Eaglets In W/Cup-Bound Eagles Excite Obuh
Former flying Eagles coach, John Obuh, says he is proud of three former Golden Eagles players in the Brazil-bound Super…
Pilgrims’ Progress
By Ademola Adegbamigbe President Goodluck Jonathan recently visited Israel. It was a mission that combined promotion of bilateral relations between…
After Unbundling PHCN, What Next?
By Kanayo Esinulo In a piece I did in June 2010 titled ‘Can President Jonathan Fix PHCN?’, I tried to…
Decongest Awaiting Trial Detainees
The congestion in the Nigerian prison owing to the rising number of detainees awaiting trial has become a major source…
Party Time
It makes sense to arrive at a party a little hungry, but to come starving means a glass of wine…
How Lord Chosen’s Truck Killed 6 At Oshodi
Details of how a truck carrying sand belonging to the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Movement lost control on the ever-busy Oshodi-Apapa…
Pastor’s Wife Bathes Sister With Hot Water
The police at Idimu, Lagos, western Nigeria have arrested the wife of a pastor, Mrs. Angela Uzoma, for pouring hot…
Airline Operators Sue NCAA Over Fees
Non-scheduled airline operators in Nigeria are going to court to restrain the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, from enforcing the…
Fashola Bans Skating On Expressway
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has vowed to arrest and prosecute Mr. Michael Ekundayo, an official of the Lagos…
APC Slams Police For Continued Detention Of Election Observers
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally inexplicable and unjustifiable the continued detention of the 182 election Observers…
Two Men Jailed For Defrauding GTBank
A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja today sentenced two men Adekunle Adetowubo and Olugbenga Adetayo to nine years imprisonment…
What Keeps Me Going As A Writer
O’Yemi Afolabi, novelist, poet and writer of books for children, released ‘The Indigo Glass’, her debut novel in 2011 to…
From Ivory Tower To Fashion
Mrs. Joy Odugbemi, a polytechnic graduate, has no regret resigning her lucrative white collar job for fashion designing At a…
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President Jonathan, Dame Patience And I
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State explains his fractious relationship with President Goodluck Jonathan to TheNEWS editors In the last…
Amaechi: Battered But Unbowed
Rattled. That is what Rotimi Amaechi should be. Months of enduring body blows from an out-and-out heavyweight that is the…