Month: March 2014
Agbakoba rejects National Conference allowances
Chief Olisa Agbakoba,(SAN) a former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association and a rights activist on Tuesday rejected the…
Community Organising As Nation Building
By Kunle Ajibade The British academic, rabbi and author of The Politics of Hope, Professor Jonathan Sacks, observes that community…
How We Escaped Death —Job Applicants
By Our Reporters Some of the job seekers who took part in the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, recruitment test held…
How Nigeria Can Curb Corruption, Say Fashola, Oshiomhole
Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola and his Edo State counterpart, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole have proffered ways to tackle the worsening…
1.5m Lagosians To Get Protection Against Mosquitoes
The Lagos State government targets protecting 1.5 million Lagos residents against mosquitoes as it begins the Indoor Residential Spraying, IRS,…
Senators Condemn Immigration Job Deaths
Sola Adeola/Abuja The Nigerian Senate resumed Tuesday after a week recess that enabled the senators attend to budget matters, and…
De-Registration: Okotie Tackles INEC Again
Taiwo Okanlawon Fresh Democratic Party, FDP, presidential candidate and founder of Household of God Church, Rev. Kris Okotie, has asked…
Goitre Scourge Hits Lagos, 50 Affected
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos State Government has raised concerns over an outbreak of goitre in Badagry Local Government Area of the…
Son Of NCDC Officer Sent To Prison
Cyriacus Izuekwe The son of a senior staff of Nigeria Civil Defence Corps, NCDC, Ikeji Owolabi, has been arrested and…
Stem Goitre Scourge Now
The goitre scourge ravaging Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State is a worrisome development that needs concerted efforts to…
Africa’s Declining Capacity To Manage Conflicts
By Makinde Collins At a recent debate in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a political think-tank…
On Lagos CCTV Security Scheme
By Tayo Ogunbiyi Lagos, being the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, and indeed West Africa, has enormous security challenges bearing…
World Cup: NFF Rallies Support For Flamingoes
Adebobola Alawode President, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Aminu Maigari has assured Nigerians that the country’s U-17 women’s team, Flamingoes, who…
Falana Cautions Army Chiefs Over Clash With Gusau
Henry Ojelu Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has cautioned Nigerian military chiefs over attempt to belittle the office of the…
German women earn less than men
The gender pay gap in Germany continued last year for the third year running, with women earning 22 percent less…
Sectarian strife paralyses Algerian desert town
Daily life has ground to a halt in Ghardaia, a picturesque Algerian city on the edge of the Sahara turned…
Nigerians collect signatures to sack Abba Moro
No fewer than 20 Nigerians have signed a petition calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack his Interior Minister, Comrade…
Football: El-Kanemi, Abia Warriors get new date
The League Management Company (LMC) on Monday in Abuja announced Wednesday, March 26 as new date for the postponed Matchday…
Deaths at Job test centres: Jonathan summons Moro
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday summoned Nigeria’s interior minister, Abba Moro and the Immigration Services boss David Paradang, two days after…
Taraba acting governor sacks 24 advisers
The Taraba acting Governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, has sacked 24 special advisers to the state government and appointed 24 new…
19 Redeemed Church members, 45 others die in multiple crash
A multiple crash on the Potiskum-Maiduguri highway, involving three vehicles on Monday killed 35 people, including 19 church members on…
OOU lecturers protest delayed salaries, boycott lectures
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Lecturers of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, OOU today protested the irregular payment of their salaries by…
‘All right, good night’, last words from Malaysian plane
The last words from a Malaysian passenger jet missing for 10 days were apparently spoken by the co-pilot, the airline…
Scientists detect waves of gravity, solving Big Bang puzzle
Waves of gravity that rippled through space right after the Big Bang have been detected for the first time, in…
US Navy arrests Korean ship carrying stolen Libyan crude
US Navy SEALs captured an oil tanker Monday that had loaded crude at a rebel-held port in eastern Libya and…
8 Boko Haram terrorists killed in ambush
Nigerian troops operating in the North-East have ambushed a group of terrorists on a mission to attack Goniri Community in…
Olubunmi Oyewole, 24 others appointed appeal court judges
Justice Joseph Olubunmi Oyewole of the Lagos High Court was among the 25 new judges whose appointment to the Appeal…
Obiano promises good governance at inaugural
Governor Willie Obiano of the eastern Nigerian state of Anambra on Monday in Awka assured the people of good governance…
Council chairman charged with certificate forgery
The Nigerian Police on Monday dragged the Chairman, Soba Local Government in Kaduna State to a Magistrates’ Court for certificate…
Court bailiff remanded in prison
A Nigerian Chief Magistrates’ Court in Abeokuta, Ogun state on Monday remanded the chief bailiff of the state High Court,…