Year: 2016
Children’s Education Channel, Discovery Family debuts on GOtv
GOtv has introduced Discovery Family, a channel which inspires learning and sparks curiosity in young minds. This is in commemoration…
IOC board backs new sports for 2020 Olympic games
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has backed the proposal to add five new sports to the…
Guardiola makes Ilkay Gundogan is first Man City signing
Manchester City have signed Germany midfielder Ilkay Gundogan from Borussia Dortmund on a four-year deal. The 25-year-old, who will miss…
VP Osinbajo to represent Buhari in Ogoniland
President Muhammadu Buhari will not be going to Ogoniland, Rivers State, for the much publicised Niger Delta Clean Up afterall.…
Ecobank sacks 1,000 bankers
Ecobank Nigeria Limited has sacked some of its staff just as the it announced the conversion of over 200 outsourced…
Niger Delta Avengers are criminals, we won’t negotiate with them – Presidency
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Presidential Adviser on Amnesty Programme in the Niger Delta, Brig. General Paul Boroh (rtd) has slammed the…
Rivers bans Okada, tricycle riders for Buhari
Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has banned commercial motorcycle riders popularly called Okada and tricycle riders (Keke Marwa) from…
Abuja-Kaduna rail line will be ready for use by July, says Amaechi
Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has assured that the federal government under President Muhammadu Buhari will ensure the sustenance…
What’s brand gotta do with it?
By Frank Aroyewun The song “what’s love gotta do with it” by Tina Turner takes us on a trip down…
Gov. Bello sends commissioner-nominees to Assembly
Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has named fifteen commissioner nominees, about four months after he took over the affairs…
2 PDP reps defect to APC
Two members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the House of Representatives on Wednesday defected to the ruling…
Amosun dissolves Ogun local councils’ transition committees
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta: Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State Wednesday dissolved the transition committees in all the 20 local government areas…
Troops trail Boko Haram insurgents fleeing Sambisa Forest
The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Wednesday, said the Army was on the trail of Boko…
Welder to die by hanging for armed robbery
Jethro Ibileke/Asaba: A 38-year old welder, Onyeka Ossai, has been sentenced to death by hanging for armed robbery and attempted…
Goodluck Jonathan returns home
Former President Goodluck Jonathan returned to Nigeria on Wednesday after spending weeks in London and other western capitals on a…
Ikoyi prisoner bags degree in Theology
An inmate of the Ikoyi Prisons, Albert Emmanuel Ajogbor, was on Wednesday presented with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) Degree…
Archbishop Martins seeks stiffer penalties for corrupt people
Archbishop Alfred Martins of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos on Wednesday called for stiffer penalties for those found guilty of…
INEC set to amend Electoral Act
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it was finalising a comprehensive proposal for constitutional and legal amendments to the…
9 ships laden with petrol, other items arrive Lagos ports
Nine ships laden with petrol, aviation fuel and other commodities have arrived at Lagos ports waiting to discharge, the Nigerian…
World Bank releases $122m to fight TB
The World Bank has released 122 million dollars to boost southern Africa’s capacity to initiate an effective regional response to…
Ogoniland agog for Buhari’s visit
The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) says the entire Ogoni people are ready to welcome President Muhammadu…
Foreign rice scarce in Katsina
Following Federal Government’s ban on importation of rice from foreign countries through land borders, the commodity has become scarce in…
Stella’s Addiction serves beautiful bridal inspirations from the North
Stella Maris’ makeup studio, Stella’s Addiction is out with another bridal themed photo shoot which is to showcase the beauty…
French vessel detects signals likely from EgyptAir jet black box
The Egyptian investigation committee, revealed on Wednesday that a French naval search vessel has picked up signals believed to originate…
Court fixes trial of Synagogue engineers for June 3
An Ikeja High Court has fixed June 3 for the trial of the two engineers who constructed the collapsed seven-storey…
Delta State not part of Biafra- Delta SSG
The Delta State Government on Wednesday said the people of the State are not part of the proposed Biafra Republic,…
No retreat no surrender in Sambisa Forest-Military
Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen. Gabriel Olonisakin, on Wednesday reaffirmed that the military would intensify its offensive in the…
Unpaid Salaries: Hairdressers tell civil servants to wake up
The Association of Hairdressers and Cosmetologists has advised civil servants across the country to take to vocational work as an…
Uche Jombo-Rodriguez fierce for House of Maliq Magazine’s June 2016 Edition
Beautiful Nollywood actress, scriptwriter and producer, Uche Jombo-Rodriguez is the star cover on House of Maliq Magazines June 2016 Edition.…
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Tonto Dikeh’s Husband, Olakunle Churchill honoured with Doctorate degree
Olakunle Churchill, Tonto Dikeh’s husband, was recently awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from ISCG University in the Republic of Benin.…