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Mouthy Belgian coach of Malawi, Tom Saintfiet, jobless after loss to Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Belgian Tom Saintfiet position as Malawi national football team coach is untenable following his side’s 0-2 loss to Nigeria at UJ Usuene Stadium in Calabar in a 2014 World Cup qualifying game on Saturday. Saintfiet whose appointment was ratified on July 2 by the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) explained that he had an “agreement till midnight on […]

Nigerian women accused of “birth tourism” in Canada

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 8th, 2013

TORONTO — Carrying fraudulent, forged and stolen passports, dozens of Nigerian women began making their way to Toronto not long ago — so many that last year the Canada Border Services Agency identified it as a “trend.” The women were between the ages of 20 and 35, and were traveling with the help of “facilitation” […]

Discovering Our Potentialities – By Arnold A. Alalibo

Posted by admin Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Saturday, September 7th, 2013

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | Sept. 7, 2013 – Every man, except the pampered child of fortune, ought to have a vocation in order to earn his livelihood. In ancient Jewish society, acquisition of vocational skills were required. Apostle Paul of the Bible even added tent-making to his vocation while Jesus earned carpentry […]

Fire Guts Hausa Quarters in Yenagoa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Saturday, September 7th, 2013

A mid-night inferno has rendered homeless more than 400 residents of Hausa/Fulani Community, a suburb around the Aretallin area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Scores of residential apartments, including permanent structures, batchers and make-shift houses were completely destroyed, while property estimated to cost millions of Naira were also consumed in the inferno. Some elders […]

Amaechi, Mbu at war

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News Saturday, September 7th, 2013

Escort commander’s removal, an order from above -Police It’s an afterthought, lame excuse-Govt Barely 24 hours after the Rivers State government raised the alarm that the state police commissioner, Mbu Joseph Mbu was plotting harm against Governor Rotimi Aamechi following the sudden withdrawal of the latter’s security commanders, the police command has offered explanations for the […]

Customs arrests forgers of govt certificates, seals

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 7th, 2013

Bank tellers found in their hideout Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A Ikeja, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have arrested members of a syndicate that specialises in the forgery of various government import documents including the seal of the Comptroller General of the NCS.At a raid of the syndicate’s ‘office’ […]

I went into drug trafficking to get money for marriage- Suspect

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, September 7th, 2013

By Christipher Oji A 36-year-old man has been rearrested for the same offence of drug trafficking, a crime for which he is already standing trial in court. Nnaemeka Benjamin, who is standing trial for cocaine smuggling at the Lagos High Court, Ikoyi, was re-arrested with 1.820kg of heroin by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency […]

Kenyan lawyer sues Israel, others, over Jesus’ death

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 7th, 2013

Former Kenyan Judiciary spokesman has petitioned the International Court of Justice in The Hague to annul the trial and death sentence against Jesus Christ, nearly 2000 years ago. Dola Indidis is also suing Israel, Italy, King Herod, Pontius Pilate, various Jewish “wise men” and the Roman Emperor Tiberius for what he considers an illegal trial […]

Mudslide: C’River govt plans evacuation of residents

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Saturday, September 7th, 2013

There are strong indications that the Cross River State government has concluded arrangements to evacuate the residents of Edim Otop community in Calabar Municipal following the death of eight persons caused by a mudslide. On Wednesday, eight members of Amos Akaniyene family were submerged in a mudslide with three critically injured following a heavy downpour […]

Police seal off office of Baraje’s PDP faction

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday, September 7th, 2013

The Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party has described the closure of its head office in Abuja by the police as the height of impunity. A statement issued by the National Secretary of the Baraje-led group, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, said security forces were mobilised to seal off the office on Saturday based on […]