The Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced a middle-aged man, Innocent Eze, to eight years imprisonment for assaulting and raping a 12-year-old girl. Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye in the judgment delivered on Friday held that Eze was guilty of indecent assault and defilement. The convict was jailed one year for the first count and seven years […]
A governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, has described the rejection of the consensus arrangement proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan to select the party’s governorship candidate in 2014 election as gross indiscipline. Adeyeye said this in a statement issued on his behalf by the Director-General of his campaign […]
Anxiety has enveloped Ajakurama in Ovia South West Local Government of Edo State as operatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta stormed the community demanding the whereabouts of a repentant militant, Ojuemi Perediseghabofa. The security operatives, who reportedly stormed the community at about 1am on July 18, 2013, took away Perediseghabofa’s wife […]
The Presidency on Sunday dismissed the reported insistence of five northern governors on the sack of the Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. The governors — Muritala Nyako (Adamawa), Rabiu Kwankanso (Kano), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) —had on Saturday met with President Goodluck Jonathan on issues that […]
OUTCRY against its £3,000 tourists visa bond notwithstanding, Britain will commence the scheme in the six listed Commonwealth countries in November, Financial Times report quoted the Home Office as saying. The Commonwealth countries to be affected by the policy which was announced in June are Nigeria, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The affected […]
By News Express, www.newsexpressngr.com, on 27/07/2013 The pastor’s daughter at the centre of a row between Nigeria’s umbrella Christian and Muslim groups has broken her silence, debunking claims by her father and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that she was abducted and converted by force. The conversion of 24 years old Miss Charity (now […]
The leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, may have been cornered by operatives of the Joint Task Force in Gwoza hills, Borno State. A top security source told Saturday PUNCH on Thursday that the JTF had located the area where the Boko Haram leader was hiding. The source stated, “We are […]
At 119 years old Johanna Mazibuko, who lives in small town south-west of Johannesburg, could be the world’s oldest person. Ms Mazibuko was born in 1894, according to her identity papers, and has outlived five of her seven children. “God gave my life in abundance, plus a bonus. I am very old now,” she told […]
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor They are three senators with a common streak of having been pushed out of office by the courts. Now Senators Chris Ngige, Emma Anosike and Andy Uba are in the frontline in the battle to succeed the outgoing governor of Anambra State. Yesterday, Senator Chris Ngige stole the show in […]
By Kingsley Omonobi, Gabriel Ewepu-Abuja Two Army Majors and thirteen soldiers killed by Boko Haram Terrorists in the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, as well as UNAMID operations in Darfur, Sudan, were yesterday given national burial at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja with President Goodluck Jonathan insisting that the nation will win the […]
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