2011 October 25 | New Nigerian Politics

Why we killed NTA journalist –Boko Haram

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnati Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram said that they were responsible for the killing of Zakariyya Isa, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) Maiduguri Network Centre. The group has also claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s multiple attacks on a police station and banks in Saminaka, Kaduna State […]

Yobe Governor loses wife

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Women Politics, Yobe Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has lost his youngest wife, Hajiya Zainab to the cold hand of death yesterday morning. She was said to have died at the National Hospital Abuja from a protracted illness, which treatment was actually started in Egypt but she was brought back to the country in the wake of […]

S’Court rules on Borno guber appeals Oct 31

Posted by admin Borno, Governors, Judiciary, State News Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Supreme Court has fixed October 31, 2011 to deliver judgement in the consolidated appeals bordering on the Borno State Governorship Election Petition where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the April 26, 2011 polls, Alhaji Mohammed Goni is challenging the victory of Governor Kashim Shettima of the All Nigeria Peoples Party […]

Arms importation: Judge orders journalists, lawyers, litigants to leave courtroom

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Citing the need to protect national security, a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants to leave the court room as trial commenced in the arms importation case against two persons, an Iranian and a Nigerian. The Iranian, Azim Aghajani and Alli Abass Jega are currently being tried for […]

Army employs war dogs (In the midst of human unemployment)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Latest Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues. Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained […]

Gaddafi, son buried in secret location

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

MISRATA (AFP) – The body of Libyan ex-leader Muammer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gaddafi’s remains were buried “overnight in a religious ceremony” along with the […]