WorldStageBomb scare: Sack of clothes causes chaos in KadunaMoment Nigerian NewspapersPANDEMONIUM broke out yesterday afternoon, at Unguwan Sarki local market, Kaduna, when some residents mistakenly took a sack of clothes found under a table for a bomb…
Leadership NewspapersFashola: Setting The Economic PaceLeadership NewspapersAlthough developmental projects are not alien to financially buoyant states like Lagos, expert says the decision by the Lagos State government under the leadership of Mr. Babat…
Press TVBoko Haram Admits Baga Market AttackAllAfrica.comBy Hamza Idris And Yahaya Ibrahim, 22 February 2012 Maiduguri — Boko Haram sect has claimed responsibly for the Baga Fish Market explosions on Monday and the subsequent shootout between their f…
Osun DefenderAkunyili vs. Ngige: Tribunal Throws Out Akunyili's SuitOsun DefenderThe Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Awka on Tuesday struck out the petition instituted by the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Dora Ak…
Osun DefenderAkunyili vs. Ngige: Tribunal Throws Out Akunyili's SuitOsun DefenderThe Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Awka on Tuesday struck out the petition instituted by the candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Prof. Dora Ak…
AllAfrica.comPresident Jonathan Congratulates Gov. Wamakko of Sokoto StateAllAfrica.comPresident Goodluck Ebele Jonathan congratulated Alhaji Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko on his victory in February 18, 2012 governorship elections in Sokoto State. A statem…
BusinessDayEket Council Acquires Waste Disposal EquipmentNigerian ObserverEKET (AKWA IBOM) – Chief Aniekan Akpan, the Transition Committee Chairman of Eket Local Government Council in Akwa Ibom, has pledged to make Eket the cleanest city in the state. …
BusinessDayMadalla bomb blast: 7 parishioners go blindNigerian TribuneBarely eight weeks after the last Christmas Day bombing by the Boko Haram sect at St Theresa Catholic Church, Madalla in Suleja Local Government Area of Niger State, the Parish Pries…
Lagos: Police arrest sailor for endangering lives of 10 pupilsNigerian TribuneThe Marine Police attached to the Lagos Waterways Authority, on Tuesday, apprehended a local boat sailor over an allegation of non-provision of safety jackets for 10 underage…
Daily Times NigeriaWe can conduct 2015 elections without armed men —JonathanNigerian TribuneSATISFIED with the peaceful conduct of political campaign rallies in Cross River State, ahead of the governorship election in the state due on Saturday, Presi…
WorldStage110m SIM cards so far registered —NCCNigerian TribuneThe Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), on Tuesday, in Abuja, disclosed that the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards so far registered under the combined registration project has…
Senate rejects special court for terroristsNigerian TribuneSenate, on Tuesday, rejected a proposal to create special court to handle the trial of persons arrested in connection with act of terrorism within Nigeria. This was part of the report of the Se…
Leadership NewspapersOpposition members defect to LP in Ondo •As crisis looms in Ondo PDPNigerian TribuneMembers of the opposition parties in Ile-Oluji/Oke-igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Tuesday, defected again to the Labour Party (LP),…
Leadership NewspapersOpposition members defect to LP in Ondo •As crisis looms in Ondo PDPNigerian TribuneMembers of the opposition parties in Ile-Oluji/Oke-igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Tuesday, defected again to the Labour Party (LP),…
Leadership NewspapersOpposition members defect to LP in Ondo •As crisis looms in Ondo PDPNigerian TribuneMembers of the opposition parties in Ile-Oluji/Oke-igbo Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Tuesday, defected again to the Labour Party (LP),…
Preparing for the coming heavy rainsVanguardWHEN the heavy rains descend upon us later this year, nobody can say he or she was not warned enough. On February 13th 2012, Mother Nature herself fired a warning shot through a powerful flash storm that deva…
The Nation, PakistanBoko Haram talks tough •We'll continue fighting until… •Denies losing …Nigerian TribuneFOLLOWING the attack on Baga Fish Market in Maiduguri on Monday by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, spokesman for the sect, …
NDLEA discovers fake drug laboratoryThe Nation NewspaperBy Kelvin Osa- Okunbor 8 hours 9 minutes ago The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested three Bolivians and a Nigerian for operating a laboratory for the illegal production of M…
NDLEA discovers fake drug laboratoryThe Nation NewspaperBy Kelvin Osa- Okunbor 20 hours 43 minutes ago The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested three Bolivians and a Nigerian for operating a laboratory for the illegal production of…
Bank PHB: Atuche asks court to quash charge against himVanguardBy Abdulwahab Abdulah& Arji Donald LAGOS — Former Managing Director of Bank PHB Plc (now Keystone Bank), Mr. Francis Atuche, yesterday, asked an Ikeja High Court, Lagos, to quash the …
Daily Times NigeriaEx parte order: INEC says no going back on Cross River governorship election …The Nation NewspaperBy Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja 3 hours 13 minutes ago DESPITE Monday's ex parte order of an Abuja High Court purportedly stopping t…
Telegraph.co.ukLions kill two, 30 animals in YobeThe Nation NewspaperBy JOEL Duku, Damatur 7 hours 43 minutes ago TWO herdsmen and some 30 domestic animals have been killed by two rampaging lions in Gulani Local Government Area of Yobe. The wild animal…
Leadership NewspapersBattle for governorship seats rages on at Supreme CourtThe Nation NewspaperBy KAMARUDEEN OGUNDELE 3 hours 9 minutes ago The 2010 electoral reform was designed, among other things, to stamp out or reduce the delay in justice dispens…
Leadership NewspapersAkunyili urges FG to name 2nd Niger Bridge after OjukwuVanguardEnugu – Former Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has called on the Federal Government to name the proposed second Niger Bridge after the late Dim Chukwuem…
WorldStageBomb scare causes pandemonium in KadunaVanguardBy Luka Binniyat KADUNA – Pandemonium broke out Tuesday afternoon at Unguwan Sarki, Kaduna, after some residents pointed to a sack under a table near the local market and swore that it was concea…
WorldStageBomb scare causes pandemonium in KadunaVanguardBy Luka Binniyat KADUNA – Pandemonium broke out Tuesday afternoon at Unguwan Sarki, Kaduna, after some residents pointed to a sack under a table near the local market and swore that it was concea…
Myjoyonline.comJonathan vows to sack appointees over 2015 campaignInformation NigeriaIT is an issue President Goodluck Jonathan could no longer gloss over. Three years to the end of his tenure, his appointees, who are eyeing elective offices at both th…
Leadership NewspapersFashola Bemoans Lack Of Adequate Security At SecretariatP.M. NewsIn the wake of Boko Haram attacks in the country, Governor Babatunde Fashola has bemoaned the lack of adequate security at the Government Secretariat, Alausa in Ikeja…
Leadership NewspapersNURTW Chieftain, Olohunwa, Condemns Lagos Island Mayhem, Sues For PeaceP.M. NewsFormer Chairman of the National Union of Roads Transport Workers, Lagos State Chapter, Rafiu Akanni Olohunwa has condemned the mayhem that occurred on …
Abul Qaqa: How We Carried OutLeadership NewspapersDetained Boko Haram kingpin Abul Qaqa has made further revekations on the modus operandi of the sect. Qaqa, who was recently arrested by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) in a dramatic move…
Slain banker's trial: Court admits weapon as exhibitNigerian TribuneJUSTICE Lateefa Okunnu of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, admitted the alleged weapon (a kitchen knife) that was used to murder former Skye Bank staff, Omo…
Osun DefenderCorruption trial: Alao-Akala, others fight backNigerian TribuneFORMER governor of Oyo State, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, his former Commissioner for Local Government, Senator Hosea Agboola and an Ibadan-based contractor, Mr Femi Babalola, cu…
How school leaver was killed in Ibadan, by colleagueVanguardBy OLA AJAYI IBADAN- A man identified as Rilwan Asimiyu, said to be preparing to write the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB examinations, in anticipation of admission into the Un…
Rep dragged to court over alleged certificate forgeryVanguardBY Suzan Edeh Bauchi- A member representing Bauchi Central Constituency in the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Yakubu Mohammed on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been dragg…
Nigeria, US lead in illegal varsities, says Afe BabalolaThe Nation NewspaperBy Sulaiman Salawudeen, Ado-Ekiti 12 hours 19 minutes ago RELYING on a simple search conducted on the internet, the founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief…
WorldStageHow oil companies short-change Nigeria – UduaghanNigerian TribuneTHE governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, on Monday, disclosed in Abuja that it would be difficult for the country to get the correct data of barrels of oil produced da…
Leadership NewspapersWamakko assures of transparencyThe Nation NewspaperBy Suleiman Adamu, Sokoto 6 hours 15 minutes ago Sokoto governor-elect Aliyu Wamakko yesterday assured the people that his administration will be transparent, sincere and accountab…
Okorocha accuses Ohakim, Imo PDP of fals…BusinessDayGovernor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has accused Ikedi Ohakim, his immediate predecessor and some elements in the Imo PDP of plotting falsehood, blackmail and provocation with the bid to destabilis…
BusinessDayKwara to erect N1.2 bn vocational centreBusinessDayKwara State Government plans to build a N1.2 billion International Vocation Centre in Ajasse Ipo to train youths in marketable skills. The centre will provide world class training and establ…
Leadership NewspapersUnion Embarks On Strike Over Judgment Reinstating Former Kwara CJLeadership NewspapersThe Kwara chapter of the Judicial Staff Union (JUSU) on Monday embarked on a seven-day warning strike to protest the verdict of the Supreme Court…
ACN Guber Candidate Solicits Voters SupportNigerian ObserverCALABAR – The gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Cross River, Mr. Usani Usani, has appealed to the electorate to come out en masse and vote for him on February …
Man throws niece from three-storey buildingVanguardBy Abdulwahab Abdulah LAGOS — An Ikeja High Court, Lagos, weekend, sentenced a middle aged man, Thank-God Ukwueze, to five years imprisonment over the death of his niece, Nkiru Iruka, eight years ago…
Osun DefenderKaduna Official Mistakenly Shot Last Week Died This Morning.Osun DefenderThe Director of Administration and Finance in the Kaduna State Ministry of Information, who was shot last week after he was mistaken for a suicide bomber has died of …
AllAfrica.comAbba Moro: Robbers Broke into Kogi Prison – ThisDayNigerian BulletinMinister of Interior, Mr. Abba Moro, has clarified that the jail break at the Koton-Karfi Prison in Kogi State was carried out by armed robbers contrary to the popular v…
Leadership NewspapersTruck crushes four, injures three others in OgunVanguardBy DAUD OLATUNJI ABEOKUTA—No fewer than four persons were crushed to death by an articulated vehicle, popularly known as trailer belonging to a manufacturing giant on Saturd…
Leadership NewspapersStill on the five governorsNigerian TribuneJUDICIARY the world over is seen to be an arm of government saddled with both interpretative and adjudicative functions. With these, people put their faith in the judiciary and share the v…
Akele, others blame arrest, tear-gassing of JAF members on Lagos govtVanguardBy Abdulwahab Abdulah & BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE LAGOS — Labour activist, Mr Ayodele Akele, has blamed the Lagos State Government for the tear gassing and arrest of Joint Act…
Leadership NewspapersBoko Haram not faceless, says Borno governorThe Nation NewspaperBy Yusuf Alli, Abuja 12 hours 20 minutes ago The Governor's position comes against the backdrop of President Goodluck Jonathan's call on the group to unveil it…
3SC dead supporter buriedNigerian TribuneA Shooting Stars supporter, Imam Bashir, who slumped and died after arriving at the stadium to watch his darling team play against Ocean Boys of Brass on Saturday has been laid to rest. According to the Media Of…
Leadership NewspapersIgbos committed to a united Nigeria – ObiVanguardZungeru (Niger) – Gov Peter Obi of Anambra on Saturday restated the commitment of the Igbo people to a united Nigeria. Obi made the remark during the burial rites of Dim Chukwuem…
Forces against Sovereign National ConferenceMoment Nigerian NewspapersPowerful elite in government are working hard to frustrate the growing clamour for a Sovereign National Conference. By Peterclaver Egbochue THE renewed call for a Sovereign National …
Leadership NewspapersRobbers Storm Ogun Secretariat, Police Kill OneAllAfrica.comBy Kehinde Akinyemi, 17 February 2012 Abeokuta — Dare-devil armed robbers today stormed the Ogun state civil servants' secretariat, Oke mosan, in Abeokuta, the state…
Telegraph.co.ukKogi prison break: Boko Haram members prayed before attackDaily SunThe 20 members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect who carried out Wednesday bombing of the Kotonkarfi prisons participated in the magrib (Muslim evening prayer) before they s…
Nigerian TribuneOne Party South-West A Fallacy – MimikoVanguardOndo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, says he believes in the economic integration of the south-west, noting however that political affiliation should not be a condition for the pract…
Civil war: Ojukwu defended his peopleThe Nation NewspaperBy Jide Orintunsin, Minna 4 hours 12 minutes ago Niger State governor Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu yesterday rose in defence of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu's action to take arm…
Osun DefenderTinubu tags Ribadu's appointment as insult to ACNOsun DefenderNational leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and erstwhile governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has described the appointment of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu…
Leadership NewspapersSanusi: Courting Controversy, Impacting His MilieuLeadership NewspapersGovernor of Central Bank of Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi executes his briefs with regular controversy, alarming frankness and not without some panache. He has d…
Leadership NewspapersIntrigues, complaints trail Ekwunife's re-electionVanguardBy Clifford Ndujihe ALTHOUGH Mrs. Uche Ekwunife of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has been returned as the winner of Wednesday's Anaocha/Njikoka/Dunukofi…
Leadership NewspapersSupreme Court affirms Borno, Zamfara governors' electionsThe Nation NewspaperBy Kamarudeen Ogundele, and Augustine Ehikioya, Abuja 4 minutes ago The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed the victory of both Borno and Zamfara state g…
AFPOuattara is new ECOWAS chairmanMoment Nigerian NewspapersPRESIDENT Alassane Dramane Ouattara of Cote D' Ivoire has been named the new chairman of the Economic Communities of West African States (ECOWAS). By Elizabeth Archibong, Abuja PRESIDENT A…
Leadership NewspapersBoko Haram: We won't accept any more excuses, FG tells PoliceVanguardBy DANIEL IDONOR, Abuja The Federal Government yesterday warned that it would no longer accept any excuse by the police over its inability to deal decisively …
CHANNELSRochas Calls for ECOWAS Bank Branch in ImoTHISDAY LiveBy Amby Uneze The Governor of Imo State, Chief Rochas Okorocha has called on the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) to establish a branch of the Bank in the state, as such wou…
Leadership NewspapersI'll withdraw suit against Tribune – AjimobiNigerian TribuneGovernor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, on Friday, said he would withdraw the N1billion suit filed in the state High Court against African Newspapers of Nigeria (ANN) Pl…
Osun DefenderSouthwest And Quest For Regional UnityP.M. NewsOn Monday, 13 February, 2012, leaders of the progressives in southwest Nigeria, gathered in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, to form a united and committed front for the pursuit of regional economic…