Year: 2015
MTV Base set to premiere ‘Shuga’ Season 4
Funsho Arogundade MTV Shuga Season 4, an award winning television series from the MTV Staying Alive Foundation and MTV Base…
Lufthansa pilots to strike on Tuesday
The German pilots’ union on Monday announced, pilots for all long haul flights at German airline Lufthansa will strike on…
Flood sweeps 10 Onitsha traders away
Cyriacus Izuekwe At least 10 traders in Onitsha, Anambra State in eastern Nigeria, have died and many injured after they…
Over 50 Turkish jets bomb PKK targets in northern Iraq
Ankara (AFP) – Turkish warplanes launched a massive air operation early Tuesday against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in…
Lagos highway sweepers protest non payment of salary
Following protests by Lagos midwives over the non payment of salaries, scores of highway sweepers under the Lagos State Waste…
Serena Williams’ curves discussed more than her serves
When was the last time you read a critique of Jay Cutler’s physique? Or found an online debate over whether…
Ex-aide of Jonathan, submits APC guber form, promises more involvement
Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, a retired director and one-time adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan when he (Jonathan) was governor of Bayelsa,…
APC has not endorsed candidate in Bayelsa polls – Female Aspirant
A female gubernatorial aspirant, Mrs Tonye Apraela, said on Monday that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has not anointed any…
Dickson abandoning projects I initiated, says Sylva
Former Bayelsa state governor, Timipre Sylva, has accused incumbent, Governor Seriake Dickson of abandoning all the projects he initiated when…
Gov Emmanuel closes case at tribunal amidst allegations of impersonation, false report
Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel on Monday closed his defence before the tribunal amidst allegation of impersonation and false…
PDP will win Bayelsa guber election – Jonathan
Former Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonathan, failed to secure a second term in office but he is optimistic that Governor Seriake…
Bayelsa Poll: Jonathan, Anenih, Alamieyeseigha, others endorse Dickson
Ahead of the December 5 governorship elections in Bayelsa State, political heavyweights in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) including ex-President…
NIS asks ex-governors, lawmakers, others to return diplomatic passport
Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS has directed former public office holders like governors, lawmakers at the national and state level, ministers,…
Naval Chief unveils new strategy to tackle maritime crime
The Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas, in one of his first major policy and administrative decision,…
GE empowering Nigerian graduates
Seun Bisuga A total of 29 Nigerian engineering graduates have been trained by leading electric company, General Electric (GE) in…
Nigerian gets life sentence in UK for murder
A Nigerian fugitive, Abdul Adewale Kekere-Ekun, was on Monday sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK for murdering 18-yearold Marcus…
Obasanjo laments growing rate of African immigrants
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed sadness over the growing rate of Africans illegally travelling to…
Oranyan festival commences in Oyo with free medical treatment
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN As part of effort to commemorate this year’s Oranyan festival organized by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi…
Fernandez never joked with Yoruba tradition, says group
Eromosele Ebhomele The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, on Monday described the late Ambassador Deinde Fernandez as a man who never…
I will name my cabinet this month, Buhari assures
President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Aburi, Ghana reassured Nigerians and the international community that he will name his cabinet before…
Nigeria sends Togo asylum seekers back home – UNHCR
AP — Nigerian authorities have deported at least 100 Togolese asylum seekers, many of them the children who have been…
Lagos midwives protest 20 months salary arrears
Kazeem Ugbodaga Scores of midwives in Lagos State on Monday stormed the Lagos State Governor’s office and the Lagos State…
SMEs To CBN: break N220bn bail-out into smaller units
Three associations for small and medium enterprises on Monday in Lagos appealed to the CBN to break the N220 billion…
Italian navy recovers 60 bodies from migrant boat wreck
The Italian navy on Monday recovered another 60 bodies from a boat that sank on the way from Libya to…
Pakistan to support Nigeria’s military
The Pakistani Government has pledged to support Nigeria in strengthening its military apparatus to enable it to join in promoting…
Prostitution: Lagos court jails 30 women for 6 weeks
An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday sentenced 30 women to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution. Those sentenced are…
France to prepare air strikes against IS in Syria – Hollande
AFP – France will launch surveillance flights over Syria from Tuesday with a view to conducting airstrikes on Islamic State…
Probe role of World Bank in Abacha loot, SERAP tells Buhari
Kazeem Ugbodaga A new report by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has recommended to the government of President…
China’s Sinoma signs $600m Nigerian cement expansion with BUA
Reuters – Nigerian conglomerate BUA Group has signed $600 million worth of contracts with China’s Sinoma International Engineering Co. to…
Senegal medical plane collides with Boeing 737
The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency confirmed on Monday in Dakar that a small medical evacuation plane carrying seven people,…