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Soyinka Gets Awo Prize
Professor Wole Soyinka: Wins AwolowoNobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka will today be named the first recipient of the Awolowo Prize for Leadership.He will receive the prize at a ceremony today,...
View ArticleChristian Leader Seeks Action Against Corruption
The President, Centre for Righteous Living (CRL), Reverend Solomon Adebolagun has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to be more active in the fight against corruption.Speaking with P.M.NEWS after...
View ArticleCourt Dissolves 26-Year Old Marriage
An Orile Agege Customary Court in Lagos on Tuesday dissolved a 26-year old marriage over stealing and being troublesome by the woman.The Court President, Mr. Joseph Adewusi, held that the union of...
View ArticleLASU Crisis: Lawmaker Appeals For Peace
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Wahab Alawiye-King, has called on the management of the Lagos State University (LASU) to commence efforts to bring what he called...
View ArticlePolice Arrest Oba In Court
There was a mild drama on Tuesday at Ota High Court, Ota, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria when the police stormed the court and arrested Oba Fatai Alani Matanmi of Ijokoland, Ogun State, as he was...
View ArticleNCP Loses Bid To Stop Deregistration
National Conscience Party this morning lost in its bid to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from deregistering some political parties.A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos...
View ArticleWomen To Take Over Businesses By 2017
Mrs. Lola Okanlawon, the President of Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW), says women will take over many businesses in Nigeria by 2017.Okanlawon made the observation in an interview with the News...
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Contrite lawmakers apologise after Amosun brokers peace
Abiodun Onafuye/ AbeokutaFor the timely intervention of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, a repeat of yesterday’s fracas would have occurred at the Ogun State House of Assembly, where pugilist lawmakers broke...
View ArticleNigeria: 13 Christians killed in Kano
MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/KanoThe Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has urged the authorities to probe the gruesome killing of 13 factory workers identified as Christians at Sheka, Sharada Phase 111 in...
View ArticleArms found in Kaduna home near barracks
FEMI ADI/KadunaA team of soldiers from First Division, Nigerian Army last night raided a residential house located at Sabon Birni Road Kawo area within Kaduna North Local Government area of Kaduna...
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Spanish kidnapped By Nigerian lover rescued
JETHRO IBILEKE/BeninThe Edo State Police Command has rescued a Spanish, Jose Anthonio Murili Turrillo who was kidnapped and held captive in a hotel room in Benin City since last Saturday by his...
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Fire Guts Sunny Ajose’s house
AYODELE EFUNLAFire Wednesday afternoon gutted the home of Mr. Sunny Ajose, the former Lagos State Head Of Service and special adviser to Governor Raji Fashola.The incident happened at Abisogun Leigh...
View ArticleCourt Affirms Bayelsa Governor’s Candidacy
Nnamdi Felix / AbujaBayelsa state Governor, Seriake Dickson on Wednesday trumped his challenger, Austin Febo Ogionwo before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja as the court struck out Ogionwo’s suit...
View ArticleIsrael urges citizens to avoid Nigeria
Nigeria was listed among the nations that the Israel authorities warned its citizens to avoid during the Passover holidays at the end of March for fear of attacks.Israeli public radio reported on...
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Fugitive Maina Knows Fate 21 March
Nnamdi Felix / Abuja A Nigerian federal high court siting in Abuja will on 21 March determine whether the warrant of arrest issued against fugitive former chairman of the disbanded Presidential...
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Encomiums As Soyinka Receives Awo Prize in Lagos
TOKUNBO OLAJIDEEminent Nigerians turned out in large numbers today in Lagos for a leadership award presentation for literary icon, Professor Wole Soyinka.The Nobel Laureate was bestowed with the...
View Article‘My wife denied me sex while having ex-marital affair’
A Nigerian who accused his wife of alleged adultery, on Wednesday told a Gwagwalada Upper Area Court in Abuja that she denied him sex for over a year, while having an affair with another man..Alhaji...
View ArticleSpanish royal palace workers to go on strike
Gardeners, waiters, cooks and other workers at Spain’s royal palaces will go on strike for the first time over Easter to protest against salary cuts and longer working hours, their union said...
View ArticleUS rues embezzled billions in Iraq
After invading Iraq ten years ago, the United States spent $60 billion on a vast reconstruction effort that left behind few successes and a litany of failures, an auditor’s report said Wednesday.The...
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Possible link found between salt, auto-immune disease
A high-salt diet may be a risk factor for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS), according to three papers published in the journal Nature on Wednesday.Two of the studies showed that salt...
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