Month: April 2015
Lagos Sues 686 Companies Over N11.1b Tax Evasion
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has sued 686 companies for evading tax to the tune of N11.1 billion. The…
Man Beats Wife To Death
Cyriacus Izuekwe The police at State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID have arrested a 57-year-old man for allegedly beating his 40-year-old…
10 Gov Candidates Pledge To Support Ambode
The Coalition of 10 Gubernatorial Candidates that dropped their individual aspirations to support Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress,…
Buhari To Clean Up Corrupt NNPC
Oil firms keen to know how Nigeria’s president-elect Muhammadu Buhari plans to tax them could be waiting a long time…
Ambode Receives Certificate Of Return
Jamiu Yisa The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has presented Certificates of Return to the Lagos State governor-elect, Akinwumi Abode…
Young researchers design tool that helps the blind to see
A young team of Ligurian researchers, almost all of them under 25, have designed one of many new generation devices…
Police arrest 15 over election violence in Kogi
The Police Command in Kogi on Thursday said it arrested 15 persons for various offences during the April 11 Governorship…
Senator defends Jonathan rejection of constitution amendment
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Rules and Business, Sen. Ita Enang, has described President Goodluck Jonathan’s refusal to assent to…
NCF to construct N200m cricket pitches in Abuja
The Nigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) said on Thursday that it would construct two international standard cricket pitches at the Abuja…
Orekoya Kids: Fleeing Nanny Arrested
Cyriacus Izuekwe with agency report The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Kayode Aderanti, has said the police have arrested Mary Akinloye,…
NGO empowers 154 commercial sex workers in Gombe
The Civil Society for HIV/Aids in Nigeria, an NGO, has expressed its resolve to empower 154 commercial sex workers in…
Indian village gets ‘world’s cheapest bottled water’
Charity workers have teamed with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world’s cheapest…
Chibok Girls And Social Decadence In Nigeria
By Bilikis Bakare It has been a year now that over 200 girls were abducted from their hostel at the…
Tinubu And The Resurgence Of Progressive Politics
By Lateef Raji His small trim figure and frail frame belie the enormous strength it carries, and does not in…
We Will Stop Boko Haram
By Muhammadu Buhari When Boko Haram attacked a school in the town of Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, kidnapping more than…
A Note Of Caution To APC
Come 29 May 29, 2015, the president-elect General Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in as the next president of Africa’s most…
Somali Shebab university massacre gunmen were Kenyans
All four gunmen from Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab who carried out the Kenyan university massacre earlier this month were Kenyans…
Kano, Sokoto, others conduct mass weddings for 3,000
More than 3, 000 couples were married off in various mass weddings held in four states of the North West…
Jonathan directs MDAs to submit hand over notes April 20
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to submit their handing over notes by April 20.…
Court quizzes ex-NSC DG over corruption charges
Patrick Ekeji, a former Director-General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), was cross-examined on Wednesday over the corruption charges against…
Rivers Election Tribunal relocates to Abuja for security reasons
The Rivers Election Petition Tribunal has relocated to Abuja for security reasons. This was contained in a statement made available…
INEC fixes April 25 for re-run election in Imo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has fixed April 25 for re-run of the 2015 Governorship and some constituencies in…
Man Kills, Buries Daughter’s Lover
The River Basin Authority at the Mile 8 area of Calabar, the Cross River State capital, has been thrown into…
S.African police vow to halt spread of xenophobic attacks
South African police on Thursday vowed to quell a wave of anti-immigrant violence after attacks spread to Johannesburg overnight and…
FCMB promises shareholders enhanced dividends
FCMB Group Plc on Wednesday said that the company would ensure increased return on investment to all shareholders in 2015…
Parties, observers, disagree over Rivers governorship elections
Representatives of some political parties in Rivers and observer groups on Wednesday, expressed different views on the outcome of the…
Gombe elections was free, fair – International Observers
Population and Environmental Monitoring (International Observers) has described the conduct of the 2015 general elections in Gombe State as free,…
Grief, anger as S. Korea marks ferry disaster anniversary
Grief, anger and political tension coloured the first anniversary of South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster on Thursday, as weeping relatives…
Muslim-majority Indonesia cracks down on alcohol sales
Indonesia on Thursday introduced a ban on small retailers selling most alcoholic drinks, the latest move to curb drinking in…
New York protesters demand $15 minimum wage
Thousands of demonstrators, including many fast-food workers, protested in New York on Wednesday demanding a minimum wage of $15 an…