Year: 2015
Business, Headlines, Metro, News
Obasanjo never commissioned Olorunsogo II – NDPHC
The management of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company Ltd (NDPHC) says the newly-commissioned 750MW National Integrated Power Project (NIPP)…
Lawyer, Retired Policeman Killed In Edo Auto Crash
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A multiple accident that occurred on Monday morning at Okhuahie River bridge along the Benin-Asaba express road, has…
Cape Verdean woman jailed 6 months for drug importation
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos today sentenced a Cape Verde woman, Rosangela Homes Gonclaves, to…
Explosion rocks busy Kano bus stop
An explosion hit a busy bus station in northern Nigeria’s largest city Kano on Tuesday, witnesses said, just hours after…
Money Laundering: Court orders EFCC to release Fani-Kayode’s passport
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court in Lagos, has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to release the…
Masked gunmen kidnap American woman in Kogi
Masked gunmen in central Nigeria kidnapped an American woman doing missionary work, with ransom the suspected motive for the attack,…
NFF Gives Keshi New Deal Today
President of the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Mr. Amaju Pinnick has disclosed that Stephen Keshi could resume work as Eagles…
U-17 AYC: Glo Charges Eaglets To Beat South Africa
National telecommunications company, Globacom, has charged the Golden Eaglets to beat the Amajimbos of South Africa in their semi final…
Champions League: Nasri Declares War On Barca
Samir Nasri has sent a “you don’t scare us” message to Barcelona tonight as he warned them Manchester City are…
Tennis: Quadri, Others Train At Country Club’s Clay Court
Damilare Okunola The maiden edition of Lagos Country Club Invitational Tournament is expected to serve as a warm up for…
Goodluck Jonathan: The Ruler Whose Name Will Not Be Forgotten
By Kola Johnson “The King whose rule has ushered peace and prosperity his name will not be forgotten, while the…
Governor Ayo Fayose Needs A Psychiatric Doctor
By Joe Igbokwe Anybody who sees Ayo Fayose, the so-called governor of Ekiti State should please beg him to see…
Avoiding The Brewing Storm Over PVCs
Many Nigerians received with mixed feelings the news about the postponement of the general elections by six weeks. Chairman of…
Our Personality And Emotions
By Modupe Eka Today we shall look at our personality and our emotions; we will consider intimate relationships, emotions such…
2 Killed As Customs, Smugglers In Bloody Clash
Yusuf Muhammed Men of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to Federal Operation Unit, FOU, on Monday clashed with rice smugglers…
Vote For Ambode, Solomon Tells Lagosians
Senator Ganiyu Solomon representing Lagos West Senatorial District has thrown his weight behind Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, All Progressive Congress (APC)…
Lagos Lawmakers To Honour Honest Cleaner
Eromsele Ebhomele This may be the beginning of better life for Josephine Agwu, a cleaner with one of the cleaning…
5 Die As SUV Plunges Into River
Cyriacus Izuekwe Five unidentified victims died on Monday as a Lexus SUV conveying the victims and the driver plunged into…
VIDEO: Emir Sanusi foresaw what Nigeria is today
Over three years ago, shortly after the oil subsidy protest, a group of Nigerian economist deliberated over a very salient…
UPDATE: At least 17 dead in Potiskum bus blast
At least 17 people were killed on Tuesday when a blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, witnesses…
Couple Wanted Over N800m Fraud, Operated Fake Coop Society
Eromosele Ebhomele The 39-year old Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Megarice Co-operative Society Nigeria Limited, Mr. Harry Agbenu…
Hamburg still need embattled Van der Vaart
Rafael van der Vaart still has a future at Bundesliga strugglers Hamburg, according to the club’s chairman, despite a string…
Blast rips through bus in Potiskum
A blast ripped through a bus in Potiskum, northeast Nigeria, on Tuesday, witnesses said, in the latest explosion to hit…
Synagogue: Coroner To Conclude Investigation In March
Henry Ojelu The Coroner investigating the September 12, 2014 building collapse within the premises of the Synagogue Church of All…
Israeli troops kill Palestinian near Bethlehem
Israeli troops have shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian man during unrest at a refugee camp near the West Bank town…
Missing Korean teen at IS training camp
A South Korean teenager who went missing last month has joined the Islamic State (IS) group and is receiving training,…
FIFA task force consider 2022 World Cup in winter
A FIFA World Cup task force on Tuesday recommended the 2022 World Cup in Qatar be shortened and held in…
IS jihadists kidnap 90 Christians in Syria
Jihadists from the Islamic State group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, a monitor said on…
Buhari is stronger than Fayose, declares Amosun
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun state, southwest, Nigeria has come hard on his Ekiti counterpart, Ayodele Fayose over…
Mexico president hits back at Birdman director’s Oscar comments
Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday fired back at comments made by Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, saying the…