Year: 2013
Headlines, News, Sports, Tennis
Tennis: Djokovic crushes Nadal for Tour Finals championship
Novak Djokovic in a masterful display of tennis artistry showed in London Monday night that he has the DNA code…
Apple, Samsung back in court over patent war
Apple and Samsung return to a California court this week for another round in the blockbuster patent trial between the…
Bill Gates vows to end Nigeria’s polio scourge
US billionaire Bill Gates on Monday vowed to help end the scourge of polio in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation,…
Strike over tax: French govt, football clubs to hold talks
Talks will start in France this week to try to stop a planned strike by football clubs over a government…
Headlines, Metro, News, Politics
PDP goes for broke, suspends Oyinlola, Baraje, 2 others
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja The National Working Committee of Nigeria ruling Peoples Pemocratic Party (PDP) on Monday suspended four leading members of…
Nigerians lag behind the world in phone usage
Despite the high growth of telephone subscription in Nigeria, the past 13 years, only one in three Nigerians has access…
Jonathan, Mark counsel African parliamentarians at summit
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday in Abuja that to institutionalise political stability in Africa, democracy must evolve within the…
UNCTAD scribe warns poor nations about debt crisis ahead
(Geneva, 11 November 2013) – Many of the world’s poorer countries have improved their debt balances in recent years, but…
Governor Shema loses dad
The father of Governor Ibrahim Shema of the northern state of Katsina has died. Alhaji Shehu Shema, a farmer and…
Jonathan decorates ADC with new rank
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday decorated his Aide De Camp (ADC), Ojogbane Adegbe with his new rank of Colonel in…
Reports: Spanish police bust Nigerian sex racket, rescue 5 ladies
Spanish police have freed five Nigerian women, who were victims of a prostitution racket by a gang of Nigerians. The…
Lam Adesina’s anniversary exposes political divisions
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Two separate events, signalling the political divisions in Oyo State, western Nigeria were held today in Ibadan, the…
Lagos urges FG declare emergency in transportation
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has asked Nigeria’s Federal Government to declare a national emergency on the state of…
Lagos government sanctions 7 school principals, 2 teachers
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has sanctioned four principals, three vice principals and two teachers in Lagos public schools…
Storm batters Somalia, over 100 feared dead
At least 100 people are feared dead in a ferocious storm battering Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, the local government said…