Month: March 2014
Nigeria We Failed Thee, Our Own Dear Native Land…
Nwike Ojukwu The few honest White historians as well as the locals have documented copiously, and it has been ingrained…
Tennis: Nishikori sends Federer out of Miami
World No. 5 Roger Federer crashed out of the ATP Miami Masters tournament on Wednesday, losing 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in…
The Insensitivity of a Globetrotting President
Adebayo Taiwo Hassan-Justice The full import of what leadership is, or more precisely, the section of the Nigerian constitution emphasising…
Sultan leads muslim protest to Jonathan on confab
Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, the Sultan of Sokoto, on Wednesday met with President Goodluck Jonathan behind closed doors in company of…
FG sets up committee to handle NIS recruitment
President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the composition and mandate of the Special Presidential Committee to assist in re-staging the aborted…
Nigeria’s Confab adjourns again
The National Conference on Wednesday adjourned plenary till Monday for consultations on the mode of voting. The Chairman of the…
PDP confirms Fayose governorship candidate
The National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, on Wednesday approved the election of Mr Ayo Fayose as the party`s…
Kenyan lawmaker likens homosexuality with terrorism
(Reuters) – Homosexuality in Kenya is as bad a problem as terrorism, the ruling party’s parliamentary leader said on Wednesday,…
Jonathan to attend ECOWAS summit
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will depart Abuja Thursday for Yamoussoukro, Cote D’Ivoire to participate in the 44th Ordinary Session of…
Turkish court overturns ban on Twitter
A Turkish court Wednesday overturned a controversial Twitter ban imposed after audio recordings spread via the social media site implicated…
New CBN governor-designate vows economic stability
Nigeria’s new central bank governor-designate on Wednesday vowed to ensure economic stability to create jobs and boost growth, as lawmakers…
More than 1000 killed by Boko Haram in 3 months
More than 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in three states in northeastern Nigeria worst hit by…
Nigeria wants US return seized Abacha loot
Assets worth $458 million stolen by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and frozen by the United States should ultimately be…
LASU gives deadline for fees payment
The Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has fixed Thursday as the deadline for the payment of school fees by its…
Court affirms police powers of arrest
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed a suit filed by an oil marketer, Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, seeking to…
Bamidele pledges one-term in office
The governorship candidate of Labour Party in Ekiti State, Mr Opeyemi Bamidele, has promised to spend one term in office…
Crimea crisis: Ukrainian women to deny Russians of sex
KIEV (AFP) – Political and economic sanctions may not have dissuaded Russia from annexing Crimea, but a group of Ukrainian…
Police hunt kidnappers of wife, daughter of transporter
The Nigerian Police Command in Edo state on Wednesday confirmed the abduction of the wife and daughter of a transport…
Football: Europe to get new League of Nations
UEFA will tomorrow approve a new “League of Nations” tournament for European countries alongside the World Cup and European Championship,…
Yakov Sinai, Russian, wins Abel mathematics prize
Yakov Grigorevich Sinai, Russian Mathematician, has won the prestigious Abel mathematics prize for his work in dynamical systems and mathematical…
2014 Federation Cup Kicks Off April 5
This year’s Federation Cup competition will kick off with the state preliminaries on Saturday, 5 April, according to a release from…
Toriola, Others In Good Start At ITTF World Tour In Germany
Nigeria’s trio of Segun Toriola, Aruna Quadri and Seun Ajetunmobi began their campaigns at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)-sanctioned…
US secret agents expelled from Europe for drunkenness
In a new embarrassment for the US Secret Service, three agents were sent home from Amsterdam for drunkenness, after one…
Headlines, Interview, News, Politics
Jonathan’s Approval Rating Poor, says Fashola
Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola of Lagos State granted TheNEWS editors an exclusive interview. He seized the opportunity to speak on…
Police arrest Abuja fraud gang
The Nigerian police says it has arrested in Abuja seven members of a fraud syndicate, specialising in the forgery of…
People Now Vote For Individuals Not Parties
Chief Joe Edionwele, PDP South-South Zonal Secretary and House of Representatives aspirant in 2015 election, tells JETHRO IBILEKE why he…
My Life, My Writings
Dr. Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a child of many worlds. She is by birth Nigerian, has lived in East Africa,…
Dangote Cement posts record profit
Dangote Cement, the largest capitalised company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange has posted a record profit after tax of N210.2…
Deprivation In The Midst Of Plenty
By Akunna Ejim How shall we label this madness? Young people set forth from their residences with desperate hope -the…
Defuse This Time Bomb, Now!
By Ademola Adegbamigbe Among the Nigerian daily newspapers that published the photographs on their front pages, the caption by The…