Year: 2015
In Pictures: Jonathan launches presidential campaign in style
Photos By Idowu Ogunleye/Lagos The Peoples Democratic Party presidential campaign kicked off in some style at the Tafawa Balewa Stadium…
Court dissolves 35-year-old marriage over sex starvation
A Mushin Customary Court, Lagos, on Thursday dissolved a 35-year-old marriage between Paul Odunbaku and his wife Titilayo over sex…
Saudi beheads two for murder, drug smuggling
Saudi Arabia on Thursday beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of drug smuggling and a Saudi for murder, the interior ministry…
Inter snap up Shaqiri on loan from Bayern
Inter Milan have signed Swiss midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri on a six-month loan deal from Bayern Munich, with the option to…
Customs rakes in N977.09bn revenue in 2014
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) raked in about N977.09 billion revenues in 2014 from its target of N1.2 trillion for…
Osoba Asks Bankole To Pick Ogun SDP Guber Ticket
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta The Social Democratic Party, SDP, Ogun State chapter, is persuading Rt.Hon. Dimeji Bankole to accept the governorship ticket…
Fashola Begs Judicial Workers To Call Off Strike
Kazeem Ugbodaga Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fashola has begged the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN, to call off its nationwide…
Ambode, Agbaje For J9C’s 2015 Lecture
Funsho Arogunde Lagos State leading gubernatorial candidates, Akinwunmi Ambode of All Progressives Congress, APC, and Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples…
The Choices We Make
Nigerians, be they contestants, the electorate, officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and security agencies, have again reached that…
Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode And The Baton Of Excellence
By Lateef Raji In Lagos State, the last fifteen years of civil administration had been an epic. Lagos has been…
Potential Danger As PDP Gets Desperate
By Joe Igbokwe If what is going on now in the political landscape is anything to go by, Nigerians should…
Glo-CAF Awards Tonight: Toure Eyes Record 4th Title
A new chapter will be written in the history of African football irrespective of the winner of the 2014 African…
ITTF Awards: Quadri Vows To Work Harder
Nigerian Aruna Quadri who made history in world’s table tennis yesterday has vowed to continue to work harder to justify…
Eagles Begin 2015 As World’s No. 43 Team In FIFA Ranking
Sunday Akintoye Nigeria’s Super Eagles begin the New Year on the FIFA ranking as the world’s 43rd team. On the…
Ajimobi, Others’ll Be Shocked In 2015
Oyo State’s Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship candidate, Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde, in this interview, says he would succeed Governor Biola…
Table Tennis: Quadri wins 2014 world’s best player award
From Dubai in United Arab Emirates (UAE) came another accolade for Nigeria as Aruna Quadri has been named the International…
God’ll Visit His Anger On Riggers
Pastor (Dr) Moses Iloh, a fiery social critic, veteran labour leader, nationalist, militant Zikist, founder of Eclectic Network, a socio-political…
Schoolgirl gang-raped in India
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was allegedly abducted and gang-raped near New Delhi, a media report said on Thursday. The report said…
Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit $34.49 bn
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday pegged the nation’s foreign exchange reserves at 34.49 billion dollars (N5.74 trillion)…
PDP Presidential Campaign Flag-Off: Jonathan Locks Down Lagos
Jamiu Yisa Lagos, southwest Nigeria was this morning locked down as President Goodluck Jonathan began his 2015 re-election campaign on…
Charlie Hebdo will come out next week, despite terror attack
The French satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated in an Islamist attack will come out as scheduled next week, one…
Attack on French mosques continue after terror killings
Muslim places of worship in two French towns were fired upon overnight, leaving no casualties, prosecutors said on Thursday. Three…
NFF To Badge 28 FIFA Referees Thursday
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, will on Thursday in Lagos present badges to Nigeria’s FIFA Referees for the year 2015.…
President Jonathan kicks-off re-election bid with mega rally
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday formally began his campaign for re-election, taking the fight to a key opposition stronghold…
Hot Cake: N3m Buhari scratch cards scarce in Adamawa
The Chairman, Buhari Campaign Organisation, Adamawa, Alhaji Ibrahim Waziri, on Thursday said the N3 million worth of Buhari Scratch Cards…
Police warn private security outfits against wearing similar uniform
The Police High Command has warned private security outfits and youth vanguards to desist from using uniform or its accessories…
Pope prays for victims of Paris terror attack
Pope Francis celebrated mass for the victims of the attack on the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Thursday, praying for…
Brunei bans Christmas celebrations
Oil-rich Brunei has banned public celebrations of Christmas for fear of Muslims being led astray, its religious affairs ministry said…
Another attack on Paris leaves two critically injured
A policewoman and a city employee were seriously hurt Thursday after a man opened fire with an automatic rifle outside…
Dakuku calls for protection of APC supporters
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Dakuku Peterside, the governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC) Rivers state has sent a ‘Save Our…