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Dirty tricks petrol stations, attendants use to cheat customers

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 27th, 2014

Mrs. Bisola Ayeni, a businesswoman in her early 40s confidently left her house at Egbeda (Lagos) with an almost empty tank heading for Ikeja. The red light of the fuel indicator was blinking nonstop but Ayeni knew the quantity of fuel in her tank would take her to the next available filling station where she […]

Synagogue: Nigerian, Togolese, Beninoise victims still missing

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 27th, 2014

Veronica, one of the missing victims (inset) and a file photo of rescue workers at the site of the collapsedbuilding at the Synagogue Church of All Nations in Lagos Fresh information at the disposal ofSaturday PUNCH is that South Africa is not the only foreign country which lost its nationals in the collapse of a six-storey building […]

APC calls for Fayose’s arrest, prosecution for allegedly leading a band of thugs to beat up a Judge

Posted by admin Ekiti, Governors, Headlines, Judiciary, State News Saturday, September 27th, 2014

The All Progressives Congress has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Ekiti State Governor-elect Ayodele Fayose for allegedly leading a band of thugs to beat up a Judge and then instigating his supporters to attack and burn down the opposition secretariat in the state. In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by […]

Nigerian Troops Rout Terrorists In Benisheikh and Konduga

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News Friday, September 26th, 2014

Troops from the 7th Division of the Nigerian Army in Maiduguri have recorded yet another decisive victory over Boko Haram insurgents attempting to seize Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Maiduguri residents welcoming soldiers after they returned with APC’s taken from Boko HaramSaharaReporters learnt that soldiers stationed in Konduga yesterday repelled an attack by Boko Haram fighters […]

Nigeria at Independence and Now: Elders give verdict

Posted by admin Latest Politics Friday, September 26th, 2014

By: JULIET EBIRIM Ahead of the Independence Day celebration: Elders compare the state of the country now and what it was prior to independence Our politicians are not sincere — Akpan F.I Those days, you could buy something with equivalent of 20kobo and still have change. The monthly earnings were less than equivalent of N100 and it was […]

TB Joshua lied to us, family of deceased Zimbabwean woman claims

Posted by admin General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories Friday, September 26th, 2014

A DESPERATE Bulawayo woman, Catherine Ndlovu, who allegedly paid thousands of dollars to visit Nigeria, seeking divine intervention for her hospitalised daughter has been reported as one of the 115 people confirmed to have died after the collapse of a church building owned by the pastor, TB Joshua. Yesterday, the family of Ndlovu, 40, accused TB Joshua and […]

Zimbabwe students protest ‘miraculous’ doctorate for Mugabe’s wife

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, September 26th, 2014

Harare – The Zimbabwe students union on Friday demanded the resignation of authorities at the country’s top university after it awarded a “miraculous” doctorate to President Robert Mugabe’s wife. The PhD was granted to Grace Mugabe, a 49-year-old former typist in the president’s office, two weeks ago — just months after she enrolled for the course. Mugabe’s wife […]

Man, 34, arraigned for allegedly raping foreigner

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, September 26th, 2014

Lagos – A 34-year-old man, Fabian Anyanwu, who allegedly assaulted and raped a 22-year-old Cameroonian lady, on Monday appeared before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. Anyanwu, a resident of 721 Road, D Close, Block 2, Festac Town, Lagos, is standing trial on a two-count charge of assault and rape. The prosecutor, Cpl. John Iberedem, […]

‘50 fleeing B’Haram members arrested’

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Fifty fleeing members of the Boko Haram sect were said to have been apprehended by soldiers in Biu, south of troubled Borno State. Security sources revealed that the insurgents who were travelling from the Damboa axis of the state hid in atruck going to Gombe. A security source told journalists that the arrested men were in the custody […]

Ogun police kill 37 robbers in nine months

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye The Ogun State commissioner of police, Mr. Ikemefuna Okoye, has said the command arrested 220 armed robbers and killed 37 others during shootouts with his menbetween January and September 2014. The police boss, who spoke at the state police headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta, during a parade of some suspected cultists and robbers, […]