2012 February 25 | New Nigerian Politics

How dubious pastors almost ruined my career — Ochei

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, February 25th, 2012

India-based ex- Enyimba striker and two-time CAF Champions League winner, Michael Ochei, in this interview with ’TANA AIYEJINA talks about his career and how pastors almost ruined his once promising career How is life in India? Things didn’t go well for me in the first club I played for but I could not come back […]

Pandemonium as lady pours faeces on cashier inside banking hall

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, February 25th, 2012

There was commotion at the Akure main branch of the First Bank of Nigeria Plc on Friday afternoon when a young lady, Miss Sade Babatunde, entered the bank with a polythene bag full of faeces packaged in a can and allegedly poured the content on a cashier who was attending to customers. Our correspondent gathered […]

Convention: PDP shuts out ministers, govs’ aides

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday, February 25th, 2012

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has removed ministers, ambassadors and presidential advisers as automatic members of the party’s congresses and convention. Also removed are the state commissioners, advisers to governors, chairmen and members of federal and state boards and parastatals. This was contained in a memo sent to members of the National Executive […]

Boko Haram: Police release teenagers arrested by soldiers

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Two teenagers arrested by soldiers last Thursday for allegedly driving their Mercedes Benz car into the walls of a primary school near the complex of the Defence Industries Corporations of Nigeria, Kaduna, have been released. The teenagers, Lukman Mohammed, and Kabiru AbdulRahman, were released following entreaties made to the police and military authorities by their […]

Corps members serve as tea girls, boys at N’Assembly

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Raw Politics, Senate Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Some National Youth Service Corps members serving at the National Assembly have decried the shabby way they are treated by members of the legislature. Findings by SUNDAY PUNCH on Saturday showed that the corps members were disappointed after discovering that serving at the Assembly was neither rosy nor challenging, contrary to their expectations. A male […]

Oil states reject North’s demand for more revenue

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Borno, National Politics, Oil Politics, Ondo, Rivers, State News, Top Stories, Yobe Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Anger dripped from the reply of governors and stakeholders in the oil-producing states on Saturday to the 19 Northern governors’ demand for a review of the revenue formula to give more funds to them. The South-South governors said such a call smacked of insensitivity to the plight of the zone, evident in its over 50 […]

Picture: Fake policewoman nabbed in Kwara

Posted by admin Headlines, Kwara, Nigerian Police, State News Saturday, February 25th, 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a 30-year-old mother, Yemisi Fagbemi, for allegedly parading herself as a police Inspector. fake policewoman advertisement Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Tuesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Dabo Ezekiel, said the suspect was arrested on […]