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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
From JOHN MKOM, Jalingo No fewer than five people were killed and about 300 houses set ablaze yesterday in early morning religious crisis that engulfed Wukari, headquarters of Wukari Local Government in Taraba State. A House of Assembly member representing Wukari II State Constituency in Taraba State, Ishaya Gani, who confirmed the incident to Sunday […]
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Biafra, Headlines
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha Some vandals suspected to be hired thugs have invaded the Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Library/ International Conference centre under construction in Owerri and pulled some parts of it down. The leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, who is constructing the […]
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Headlines
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri An Owerri High Court, presided over by Justice Ngozi Opara, has sentenced a middle-aged woman, Mrs. Felicia Uzoma and her 23-year-old son, Mr. Kelvin Uzoma, of Umuozu Ngugo community, in Ikeduru Local Government Area of Imo State, to death by hanging for the murder of nine-year-old Kasarachi Oforji, who was beheaded […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Published on February 23, 2013 by pmnews · 3 Comments Three Nigerians have been arrested in Mumbai, India by agents of the country’s Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC), after they recovered 100gms of cocaine on one of the Nigerians. On the streets, the drug is worth about $11,000. During interrogation, the men identified themselves as Okoye Chukwansonso […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Super Eagles defender, Kenneth Omueruo is set to rejoin Chelsea in the summer after his superlative outing at the 2013 African Nations Cup where he help the Eagles to win the trophy. He was sent on loan to ADO Den Haag to develop his skills, but Chelsea on the look out for replacement for aging […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Patience Jonathan, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Raw Politics
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

By HENRY UMORU ABUJA— WIFE of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dame Patience Jonathan Thursday boasted that 100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election. Also Thursday aspirations of some politicians to the most exalted position in the land may have been dashed as the PDP through the […]
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Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
FORMER South African president, Nelson Mandela has said that former President Olusegun Obasanjo played a prominent role in actualising the survival of democracy not only in Africa, but also the world at large. Mandela described Obasanjo’s outstanding leadership qualities as epochal, which he added, assisted him to restore democracy in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d’Ivoire […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013
Former vice-president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has donated the sum of N75 million to the Rotary International, District 9110, Lagos, to help it fight polio in the country. he former vice-president, who was the guest speaker at the dinner and dance ball organised by the Rotary International at Muson Centre, Lagos, linked the increase in polio […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

The division among the ranks of Nigerian governors under the aegis of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) appeared to have widened at the weekend, as no fewer than 13 governors have alleged that the last meeting of the forum was staged to scheme them out. Sources close to the forum told the Sunday Tribune in […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, February 23rd, 2013

WEST Brom manager, Steve Clarke, on Saturday incurred home fans’ wrath when he ventured to introduce Nigerian international, Osaze Odemwingie for match hero, Romero Lukaku in a 2-1 win over Sunderland at The Hawthorns in a Barclay’s Premier League clash. Odemwingie came on in the 87th minute but was booed by home fans who are […]