Year: 2016
CHAN 2016: Assistant coach assures Nigerians of Super Eagles’ readiness
Super Eagles’ assistant coach Jean Losciuto on Friday in Abuja assured of the home-based team’s readiness for the 2016 African…
Chibok Girls: BringBackOurGirls asks FG to establish special search and rescue team
Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja BringBackOurGirls, the group at the vanguard of campaign for rescue of over 200 students of the Government Girls…
Fun-seekers lament poor facilities at National Theatre
Some fun-seekers at the National Arts Theatre in Iganmu, Lagos State, on Friday expressed their disappointments for not having enough…
Bishop Ukwuoma unveils tallest Jesus statue in Africa
The Bishop of Orlu Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Augustine Ukwuoma on Friday unveiled the African tallest statue of Jesus Christ…
Baba 2010 shuts down Abuja club
Femi Ipaye/Abuja Popular Abuja-based afro beat entertainer, Baba 2010 who recently won a N500 million copyright infringement suit against Nigerian…
Pump price: DPR to go tough on erring marketers
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday read the riot act to filling stations who sell petrol above official…
I’m slow because I want to avoid a disaster – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria has often been described as BabaGoSlow by some Nigerians but the lanky number one citizen…
Okowa says Nigeria needs Godly leaders for economic recovery
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has said that Nigeria will get speedy economic recovery when the…
Return of Chibok girls, ‘most worrying issue to my govt’ – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the return of over 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist sect, Boko Haram, 626…
IDPs: My agreement with G7, US – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed his agreement with G7 and the United States over helping Internally Displaced Persons return to…
Rivers State is ‘Born Again’, says Deputy Gov
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Government says the Thanksgiving and Dedication Service it held on the 19 September, 2015 was…
Bukola Saraki: Stolen victory, shameful verdict
Abdulraman Abdulrazaq, a candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party has described the verdict by the National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal for…
A Regime Of Illiterates, By Illiterates, For Illiterates, And The Rest Of US (2) by Prof Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Has the transportation minister ever travelled outside Nigeria? Have those trips ever included stops in any major airport in the…
New Year: Be ready for sacrifice, Aregbesola urges Nigerians
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Friday said the era of unearned revenues has come to an end…
Edo Boy reveals how GOtv Boxing Night made him millionaire
Stanley ‘Edo Boy’ Eribo, who on Boxing Day last year, became the national light welterweight boxing champion after he defeated…
Apostle Suleman disowns fake Facebook account
Funsho Arogundade Apostle Johnson Suleman, head preacher at Omega Fire & Miracles Ministries, has alerted the public on the antics…
Lagos State ushers-in 2016 through `Lagos Countdown fiesta’
Gov. Akinwunmi Amobode of Lagos State was among top dignitaries present at the 2015 Lagos Countdown, tagged “One Lagos Fiesta“…
New pump price: Filling stations comply
Most petrol stations in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have complied with Federal Government’s directive to sell petrol at N86…
Lagos residents decry incessant use of fireworks
Some residents of Lagos on Friday expressed bitterness over the incessant use of fireworks, which they alleged, were causing them…
Terrorists plan to use beggars for attacks — Military
The Theater Command of Operation Lafiya Dole of the Nigerian Army on Friday alerted Borno residents on a planned attack…
Miss Black Africa now Miss Africa GB (Great Britain)
Organisers of Miss Black Africa beauty pageant in the United Kingdom, have announced that the name of the pageant has…
No plan to ban Hijab —Buhari
The Presidency has denied insinuations and rumors that the The President Muhammadu Buhari administration has banned Hijab, the Muslim women’s…
Ajimobi tasks NDLEA on battle against drug peddling
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN Oyo State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi has called on operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA,…
Rio de Janeiro ushers in 2016 Olympic year with fireworks
More than two million people packed onto Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana beach to ring in a New Year that…
There will be economic challenges in 2016 – Ambode
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Friday said 2016 would bring economic challenges but the state would ensure it…
NEMA distributes drugs to victims of Maiduguri bombing
The National Emergency management Agency (NEMA) on Friday said it had provided drugs and medical consumables for the treatment of…
Baby of the year in Gwagwalada, FCT, born at 1:55 am
The first baby of the year at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital in Gwagwalada, FCT, was born at 1:55…
Omotola takes Nollywood to the Stock Exchange
Funsho Arogundade Nollywood super star, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde was at the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos as guest of the market…
Lagos moves against fake job advertisers
Eromosele Ebhomele To curb the activities of fraudsters and criminal elements in Lagos State who pose as job advertisers and…
2016: Terror’ll increase globally—Pastor Bakare
The Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has said that terror will increase globally in 2016.…