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Gunmen open fire on Benue gov’s convoy

Posted by admin Benue, Headlines, State News, Top Stories Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam | credits: http://liveofofo.com Benue State Governor Gabriel Suswam narrowly escaped death on Tuesday when his convoy was attacked by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Suswam’s convoy was on its way to Gbajimba in Guma Local Government Area of the state when the incident occurred. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, […]

Eagles $10,000 bonuses dependent on approval

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

NFF President, Alhaji Aminu Maigari | credits: www.newnigeriannewspapers.com The Nigeria Football Federation has explained that the $10,000 match-win bonuses earmarked for the Super Eagles for the 2014 World Cup stand as proposal for now. Adjusting the figures or going with it will depend on what is finally approved for their proposed budget. The General Secretary […]

U.S. man walks free after 30 years on death row

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has walked free, after prosecutors asked a judge to set aside his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, citing new evidence in the case that exonerated him. Glenn Ford, 64, was convicted by an all-white jury for the 1983 robbery and murder of […]

Police arraign pastor for cutting off two-year-old’s fingers

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Saidat Faleye | credits: Samson Folarin The Sabo Police Station on Tuesday arraigned a 49-year-old pastor, Moyo Martins, before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly cutting off the fingers of a two-year-old child, Saidat Faleye. The incident happened on Olumo Street, Iwaya Onike, Yaba, Lagos State. It was learnt that the mother of […]

Five buried alive in Ghana gold mining accident

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Five people, including a one-year-old girl, have been buried alive in an illegal gold mining pit in Ghana’s Central Region, an Accra-based radio station has reported. It said the accident occurred at Akookoso, in the Amansie Central district, on Tuesday when they were in the pit digging for gold. The child was with her parents […]

Opinion: Lessons from Yonggi Cho’s imprisonment

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Jide Ojo | credits: File copy The fall of supposed men and women of God is not a new phenomenon. Even the Holy Bible has records of such: Adam, Moses, Judas Iscariot were examples. In contemporary times, we have had about the humpty-dumpty fall of some great men of God. In July 1986, Marvin Gorman, […]

Refineries must be privatised, says Alison-Madueke

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Oil Politics Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke Contrary to denials by the Presidency, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, said on Tuesday that the privatisation of the nation’s refineries remained the best way to tackle the problems in the petroleum sector. Alison-Madueke stated this when she appeared before the Joint Senate Committee […]

Soldiers attack B’Haram camp, seize 700 vehicles

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Some captured Boko Haram suspects (sitting) and one of the vehicles seized from them by soldiers … on Monday. | credits: MOD The Special Forces involved in the ongoing campaign against the Boko Haram insurgents have recorded what security sources have described as one the greatest breakthroughs in the campaign against terrorists in the North-East. […]

Pension thieves cashed 400 cheques in one day –Witness

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde | credits: File copy A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of seven persons accused of complicity in the over N20bn police pension fraud, Mustapha Gadanya, has narrated to Justice Hussein Baba of the Federal Capital Territory High Court how 400 cheques were cashed […]

Sanusi: Whistleblower or Hypocrite? – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Articles, CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma Sunday, March 9th, 2014

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 09, 2014 – The feverish disputation over the suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigerian (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by President Goodluck Jonathan dramatizes a major problem of Nigerian politics. Nigerian political parties lack ideological and philosophical anchors. Without ideological and philosophical differences between […]