Year: 2015
Investigate Akwa Ibom finances, EFCC, ICPC urged
Former Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Information, Ita Awak, has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Debt…
Winners Golden Bet hails D’Tigers’ feat at AfroBasket
Leading Nigeria’s sporting betting company, Winners Golden Bet, has joined sports-loving Nigerians in felicitating with the new African basketball champions,…
Fayose apprehends 30 civil servants for lateness
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has frowned and warned civil servants in the state to shun every act of…
Buhari swears in SFG, NSA and SA Media
President Muhammadu Buhari will today, August 31, 2015, preside over the swearing-in-ceremony of the Secretary to the Government of the…
AfroBasket Final: How Osinbajo’s call motivated D’Tigers to victory
Taiwo Adelu P.M.NEWS understands that a call from Vice President Yemi Osinbajo might have motivated Nigeria’s senior men basketball team,…
Agbesanwa resumes as DG Lagos Sports Commission
Taiwo Adelu The newly-appointed Director General, DG, of Lagos State Sports Commission, Mr. Ayodele Agbesanwa, resumed at his duty post…
Buhari congratulates D’Tigers, assures full support ahead of Olympics
President Muhammadu Buhari congratulates the national men’s basketball team, D’Tigers, on their victory over Angola in yesterday’s final of the…
UNIPORT students close down UPTH, protest death of final year female student
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Angry students of the University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT, in Rivers State,southern Nigeria, in the early hours…
Woman sacked, paid N2,500 as benefit at Catholic school
Cyriacus Izuekwe Crisis is brewing in a Lagos Catholic school after a woman who had worked for nine years in…
Kanye West to run for US presidency
Kanye West said that he is running for president in 2020 during his acceptance speech for the MTV Music Video…
Four Libyan soldiers killed by Islamist fighters in Benghazi
Reuters – Four Libyan soldiers were killed and six wounded in fresh fighting with Islamist groups in the eastern city…
Swazi police confirm 13 die in crash en route to royal ceremony
Swaziland’s police have confirmed that 11 young women and two men died in a road accident at the weekend on…
Ogun Gov. Election Tribunal rejects ballot papers as evidence
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta The Ogun Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Isabo court, Abeokuta, has rejected ballot papers packed in…
Transfer Roundup: Victor Moses to West Ham, Martial to Man Utd
Nigerian international and Chelsea winger Victor Moses, 24, will join West Ham on loan before the end of the transfer…
Nigeria make history, beat Angola to win first-ever AfroBasket title
Nigeria beat Angola 74-65 in the Final ofAfroBasket 2015 in Rades, Tunisia on Sunday to claim their first-ever continental championship.…
Kenyatta lauds Kenyan athletes for topping IAAF chamionship
Nairobi (AFP) – Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday congratulated the country’s athletes for their sterling performances at the world…
Sharapova withdraws from US Open with leg injury
New York (AFP) – Russian third seed Maria Sharapova withdrew from the US Open on Sunday with a right leg…
Entertainment, Headlines, News
London’s colourful Notting Hill Carnival kicks off
London (AFP) – London’s Notting Hill Carnival kicked off with a riot of colour despite grey skies on Sunday, in…
‘A Sinner in Mecca’ documents gay Muslim pilgrimage
New York (AFP) – The confession of a Pakistani murderer. Overzealous religious police. An Arab angered after his pregnant wife…
Sierra Leone hit Lagos on Monday for AFCON qualifier
The delegation of senior national team of Sierra Leone, known as the Leone Stars, will arrive in Lagos on Monday…
Imams back Buhari’s loot recovery campaign
The Council of Imams and Ulama in Kaduna State, on Sunday said the effort by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration…
7 villages flooded in Adamawa as Kiri dam overflows
Seven communities were on Sunday flooded in Demsa and Numan local government areas of Adamawa, following heavy flow of water…
N1.2billion debt: AMCON seizes G.Cappa property
Akin Kuponiyi In a bid to recover a debt of N1,207,296,646.45 from G.CAPPA PLC. Construction Company, the Asset management corporation…
“What are Jonathan’s Ministers afraid of?” Presidency asks
The Presidency has asked Ministers who served under former President, Goodluck Jonathan, what they are afraid of in President Muhammadu…
Diezani, Okonjo-Iweala, others say Jonathan is not corrupt
Ministers who served under the President Goodluck Jonathan administration, have condemned what they described as concerted effort by the Buhari…
Donnier 228 crash: Buhari commiserates with families of victims
President Muhammad Buhari has commiserated with the families of victims of the ill-fated Donnier-228 which crashed in Kaduna on Saturday.…
UK, US legislature more expensive to maintain than Nigeria – Institute
The National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) says it is much more expensive to maintain legislators in the U.S. Congress…
NIWA in talks with NNPC on delivery of crude oil to refineries
The National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has initiated discussion with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on how to deliver…
Buhari will balance appointments, ex-lawmaker tells Nigerians
Dr Nya Asuquo, a former House of Representatives member, has appealed to Nigerians to be patient with President Muhammadu Buhari…
Frequent recess by NASS not unusual, says NILS
The National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) says the frequency with which members of the National Assembly go on recess…