Year: 2015
Nkwocha Dropped As Falcons Head To Canada
Coach Edwin Okon named a preliminary 26-woman squad for the Nigeria senior women team ahead of the 2015 FIFA Women’s…
Unpaid Salaries, Cost Of Governance And Ibrahim Shema
By Tayo Ogunbiyi One of the major highlights of this year’s May Day celebration across the country is the contentious…
Jonathan A Prodigal Son, Say Kinsmen
The people of Ogbia Local Government in Bayelsa State, President Goodluck Jonathan’s home council, have described him as a prodigal,…
Mu’azu Resigns PDP National Chair
The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a turn for the worse on Wednesday as the National Chairman…
Three Reasons The Burundi Coup Plot Failed Miserably
By Onyedimmakachukwu Despite riding on popular local support and a silent acquiescence of the international community, the Major General Niyombare-led…
Let The Best Men Get The Job
Nigerians have been waiting anxiously to know how the All Progressives Congress, APC, would handle the issue of picking the principal…
Lively And Healthy Essentials
By Sharon Jane Akinyemi While excess body fat is not something that should scare, discourage or bring down your esteem,…
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Jonathan A Failure, Says Bisi Akande
Jamiu Yisa An All Progressives Congress Chieftain, Chief Bisi Akande, has described President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration as a failure…
Jilted Man Lands In Prison For Breach Of Public Peace
Cyriacus Izuekwe A 47-year-old jilted man, Olu Alloh, has landed in prison after he was arrested and charged to court…
Lagos Funds Research With N142.2m
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has disbursed N142.2 million to some universities in the country to fund research in…
Set Up Checkpoints, Face Arrest, Police Boss Tells Cops
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Dan Bature, has ordered the immediate arrest and prosecution of any policeman…
PENGASSAN To Shut Down Oil Well
Nigerian oil workers will go on strike to halt a small field if the government does not meet with them…
14 JSS Students Arrested Over Cultism
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The renewed war against cultism in Edo State has led to the arrest of 14 Junior Secondary School…
Remove fuel subsidy to end fuel scarcity, Senator urges FG
The Vice Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (upstream), Senator Kabir Marafa, has called for the removal of oil susbsidy to…
Barber arraigned for peeping at female neighbour in bathroom
A 36-year old barber, Azeez Adewale, charged with peeping at his female neighbour while bathing in the bathroom, was arraigned…
Netanyahu suspends plan to separate Palestinians, Israelis on same buses
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Wednesday ordered the suspension of a plan to separate Palestinian and Israeli passengers on…
International summit tells Nkurunziza to postpone Burundi polls
An international summit for Africa’s Great Lakes Region, has called on President Pierre Nkurunziza to postpone legislative, local government and…
PDP NWC members destroyed party’s fortune, worked for APC – Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode has dismissed claims that hate campaign by some members of PDP Presidential Campaign Orgnaisation caused its loss at…
Ebola cases rise in Guinea, Sierra Leone, says WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO), confirmed on Tuesday that Ebola has spread further in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Bruce Aylward,…
Lagos Assembly seat: Eshilokun-Sanni, Masha’s battle gets messier
Jamiu Yisa and Eromosele Ebhomele The battle between former Lagos Island council chairman, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, and a member of the…
Two arrested with 2.7kg cocaine at Kano airport
Maduabuchi Nmeribeh/Kano Two Nigerians from the eastern part of the country have been nabbed by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency,…
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Court Stops Jonathan From Signing Oil and Gas Bill
Akin Kuponiyi A Lagos Federal High Court, on Tuesday, restrained President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, from assenting to the bill for…
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Amaechi got part of missing $20bn, Okonjo-Iweala fires back
Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has suggested that Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi got a piece of the missing…
Abuja begins online tracking of buildings
The Department of Development Control of Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), has began online tracking all ongoing building developments in…
Wike to be sworn in by Bayelsa Chief Judge, Adoke orders
Ayorinde Oluokun\Abuja The Federal Government has directed the Chief Justice of Bayelsa State to swear in Barr. Nyesom Ezenwo Wike,…
Totally strange to say $20bn missing from account – Okonjo-Iweala
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi okonjo-Iweala, said it was strange for the Governors Forum to allege that 20 billion…
Cultism: 14 JSS Students Arrested In Benin
Jethro Ibileke/Benin The renewed war against cultism in Edo state has led to the arrest of 14 Junior Secondary School…
NAFDAC moves against illegal satchet water producers
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration (NAFDAC) has shut down two illegal sachet water production companies in Kano.…
17th Milo Basketball Tourney: Lagos, Oyo win tickets for national finals
Taiwo Adelu Ilupeju Grammar School, Lagos and Yejide Grammar School Ibadan, Oyo State have emerged champions in the boys and…
FG denies dissolution of FEC
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Senator Patricia Akwashiki, the Minister of Information has denied a report that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) will…