How Lagos PDP can oust ACN, by Obasanjo
... was no way they could snatch the governorship seat, which was their ultimate aim, from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). The former president spoke when the PDP executives in Lagos paid...
View ArticleNigerian Forces Kill 13 Boko Haram Militants After Church Attacks
Islamist militants in Nigeria's restive north have taken the lives of 34 people since Christmas, including 27 Christians attending church services.
View ArticleTechnical Services Companies to Watch in 2013
... & Chemicals Ltd.: Contract to provide ammonia technology for its planned grassroots ammonia plant in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 3. Kentucky Utilities contract to provide EPC services for the...
View ArticleACN faults PDP over criticism of Jonathan
CITING blackmail, Action Congress of Nigeria has described as irresponsible, cheap and inflammatory the ruling Peoples Democratic Party's statement that President Goodluck Jonathan was being criticised...
View ArticlePolice parade Kano ex-PDP chief, others over lawmakers' death
FORMER chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Tarani Council of Kano State, Alhaji Saleh Kura, and a suspected hired killer, Ibrahim Lawal, were Wednesday paraded by the Kano State Police Command...
View ArticleDr. Stanley Okoro, Atlanta plastic surgeon, opens office in Abuja Nigeria
... with offices in Marietta and Atlanta, GA. He recently announced that he is opening an office in his home country of Nigeria. Dr. Okoro announced, " We are the premier cosmetic plastic surgery...
View ArticleNigerian journalists freed, but equipment still held
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Nigeria's State Security Service to return laptops and cell phones confiscated from two journalists who were illegally detained for more than a week...
View ArticlePaul James Delaney
... October. Many more would have come if they had been able, from across North America and around the world, especially Nigeria and Sierra Leone. There were former students from his nearly 30 years...
View ArticleAnenih and the race for BoT chairmanship seat
AS the race for who occupies the seat as the Chairman, Board of Trustees Peoples Democratic Party heightens ahead of the election on January 8, 2013, it is becoming obvious by the day that the former...
View ArticleLagos Fire: Firecracker importer arrested
... of damage caused by the Boxing Day explosion. Among the structures marked by LASBCA are Anwar-Ul-Islam Movement of Nigeria, headquarters Central Mosque built 30 years ago, St. Patrick Catholic...
View ArticleJonathan disowns posters
President Goodluck Jonathan, Wednesday, said he had no hand in the posters campaigning for his presidency in 2015 in Abuja, saying those who were behind it were only doing their own thing, and not...
View ArticlePolice arrest alleged killers of Kano lawmakers
... arrested a man suspected to have sponsored the killing of two members of the state legislature. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that one of the legislators, Alhaji Garba Garko, was killed...
View ArticleWealthy Gulf investors warm to Africa
... regions no longer look as attractive to some Gulf investors as they did just a few years ago. A young man in Lagos, Nigeria, uses a BlackBerry to take a picture of himself at a concert put on by...
View ArticleKeshi open to Odemwingie talks
Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi has told supersport.com he is ready to talk to Peter Osaze Odemwingie "only if he shows interest in doing so." The 31-year-old West Bromwich Albion forward had accused...
View ArticleFG to acquire 30 aircraft, plans reduction in air fares
... aircraft were used as collateral for loans. General Manager, Corporate Communications, Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Mr Dati Yakubu, stated this in Benin City, Edo State, yesterday,...
View ArticleTwo buildings razed in Lagos on New Year day
Tragedy again struck in Lagos on New Year day as two buildings on Jones Street, Ebute-Metta, Yaba Local Government, were razed, property worth millions of naira destroyed.
View ArticleSSS releases 2 detained journalists
... extremist group, Boko Haram. Al-Mizan, established in 1991 and published in the Hausa language spoken throughout Nigeria's north, is run by the Shiite organisation Islamic Movement of Nigeria....
View ArticlePolice deny banning PDP congresses in Adamawa
The Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 3, Alhaji Tambari Yabo, made this known in an interview with newsmen in Yola.
View ArticleI am not a cultist, says Gov Akpabio
... reading appointments to all section of the state. During the Solemn Assembly, prayers were offered for the state and Nigeria. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev. Mathew Kukah, delivered the...
View ArticleTransporters hike fares in Asaba
... return to base after the Christmas and New Year holidays. An investigation by a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who visited Chukwudumebi and Efex motor parks on Friday in Asaba,...
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