Year: 2015
PDP, APC sign peace pact in Bida
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Party (APC) in Zone A of Niger State on Thursday signed…
Mother gets 23 years for killing, storing babies in freezer
Audrey Chabot, a 34 year old mother was on Thursday convicted to 23 years in prison by a court in…
Kano Pillars’ bus attacked, players shot
Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) defending champions Kano Pillars were attacked on their way to honouring their opening match in…
Boko Haram kills 68, including children, in Borno
Boko Haram gunmen killed 68 people, including many children, in a massacre in the northeast Nigeria village of Njaba, two…
Obasanjo, a tutor of dignity, boldness – Tinubu
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed…
Obasanjo, World’s most expensive footballer?
Guess who all the big clubs in Europe could be jostling to get his signature this summer? He could even…
Preserving The Lagos Environment
By Rasak Musbau In his inauguration speech, in 2007, Governor Babatunde Fashola reiterated his administration’s commitment to environmental renewal when…
Calls For Confab Report Implementation
By Ayo Oyoze Baje As an ardent advocate of the imperative of political restructuring of the country, for it to…
The Church In Nigeria Must Hear This
By Joe Igbokwe In the days of the locusts between 1985 and 1999 Father George Ehusani wrote a book called…
Sustaining The War Against Boko Haram
For some weeks now, the Joint Military Task Force, comprising troops from Nigeria and other neighbouring West African countries has…
4-Year-Old Child Sold For N55k Rescued
Thirty-two suspects were paraded on Wednesday in Akwa Ibom State over alleged involvement in criminal activities including rape, defilement, child…
2 Nigerians, 7 Others Face Execution In Indonesia
Two Nigerians, Raheem Agbaje Salami and Silvester Obikwe, a Ghanaian, Martin Anderson, are among nine persons to be executed in…
2015 Polls Will Be Tough, Says Jonathan
Eromosele Ebhomele President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday morning agreed that he has a serious contender in the presidential candidate of…
Count Us Out Of Jonathan’s Dollar Rain —Lagos Igbos
The Igbo Community in Lagos State, popularly known as Ndigbo, says they are not part of the indecent dollar sharing…
Read my emails to the public, says Clinton
Hillary Clinton, facing criticism over her exclusive use of a private email account while US secretary of state, has called…
I’m not Akinlade’s boy, APC Reps Candidate fires back
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives candidate for Yewa South/Ipokia Federal Constituency, Hon. Abdul Kabir Adekunle…
We’ve patched pot-holes on Badagry Expressway – FERMA
The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) said on Wednesday in Lagos that it had patched all potholes on the Lagos-Badagry…
AIT To Tinubu: Apologise, pay N100bn in damages
In what has become Nigeria’s billion naira show, Daar Communications Plc, parent company of African Independent Television (AIT) has rejected…
Lagos approves N4m maintenance fee for public schools
The Lagos State Government has approved the payment of N4million as annual maintenance grant to every public school in the…
Eriksson, Cannavaro cash lifts football hope in China
China’s football season kicks off this week with hopes of a resurgence for the beautiful game after former England boss…
Matic suspension, injury can’t sour Chelsea win
Even news of an unfortunate injury to midfielder Nemanja Matic could not overshadow a victory over West Ham United that…
US ambassador slashed, bloodied in Seoul attack
The US ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was slashed on his face and arm in Seoul on Thursday by…
World’s oldest woman turns 117
The world’s oldest person Misao Okawa, a mother of three, grandmother of four and great-grandmother of six, turned 117 on…
Court stops Assembly from impeaching Elechi
Temporary reprieve came the way of embattled Governor Martin Elechi of Ebonyi State, eastern Nigeria on Wednesday as an Abakaliki…
Arsenal’s Giroud, Sanchez dispatch QPR
Arsenal maintained their push for a Champions League place as two goals in five second-half minutes gave them a 2-1…
Hazard’s strike keeps Chelsea flying
Eden Hazard’s first-half header ensured Chelsea maintained their five-point advantage at the Premier League summit as Jose Mourinho’s side won…
Young’s strike hands Man Utd win
Ashley Young bolstered Manchester United’s bid for a Premier League top-four place with an 89th-minute winner at Newcastle United on…
Moses, Diouf lift Stoke past Everton, into eighth
Goals from Victor Moses and Mame Diouf lifted Stoke to a 2-0 win over Everton and up into eighth in…
15 parties, 5 prezy candidates ask INEC to drop card readers
Controversies over the use of card reader for the conduct of the general elections scheduled for March 28 and April…