JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South African police said 13 people were wounded in gun and machete attacks at an Anglo American Platinum mine on Monday, after 1,000 people besieged a union office. “Mine security intervened and fired rubber bullets, and in the process a total of 13 mine workers, inclusive of four security guards (were hurt),” […]
Soni Daniel, Regional Editor, North As the National Assembly tries to wriggle out of the budget padding feud with the Presidency, a fresh round of crisis is looming in the House of Representatives following allegation by some aggrieved members that the leadership has short-changed them in the payment of their salaries and allowances. The aggrieved […]
Twenty-seven years after the death of Publisher of Newswatch, Dele Giwa, through a letter bomb, a similar incident occurred Monday under the Festac link bridge in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos, which left chairman of the local Dredgers Association dead. Commissioner of Police for Lagos State Command, Mr. Umar Manko in a statement […]
KANO (AFP) – Islamist group Ansaru on Monday claimed the kidnapping of seven foreigners in a deadly weekend raid on a construction site in restive northern Nigeria. The attack in Bauchi state late Saturday was the one of the worst incidents targeting foreigners in northern Nigeria, a region that has seen waves of violence by […]
By Ben Agande ABUJA—First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, yesterday, said she died and woke up after seven days during her illness which necessitated her absence from the country for almost three months. In a thanksgiving service held at the State House chapel in Abuja, the First Lady said the prayers of Nigerians sustained her while […]
By Dr. kunle Ojeleye / Calgary, Alberta / Feb. 16, 2013 –I have decided to write this short, reflective travel blog or article against the background of 3 key Nigerian issues which were highlighted recently by write-ups from Okey Ndibe, Pius Adesanmi and Simon Kolawole. These include: the state of Nigerian airports, the unprofessional and […]
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo / Ibadan, Oyo / Feb. 16, 2013 – wp_posts
By Ikechukwu Enyiagu / NNP / Feb. 16, 2013 – Nigeria’s present Leadership: The Worst offspring of Lugard’s Predictions Written by Ikechukwu Enyiagu, Ike.enyiagu@gmail.com Although Frederick Lugard’s curse-prediction/definition of the characteristics of the several ethnic groups which Britain eventually compelled into the near-century shame called Nigeria has been the discourse of several analysts for years; […]
The Federal Government through the Accident Investigation Bureau on Saturday, released reports of the air crashes involving Bellview Airlines, Aviation Development Company, and six other aircraft operators. The report came over six years after the Bellview and ADC crashes led to the death of 213 people in 2005 and 2006 respectively. The six other minor […]
*We’re going for one – Inyama *No, we have no such plans – Green THE Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has announced that it has no plans to contract a foreign technical director for the national teams. This is coming at the heels of an earlier disclosure by a Board member, Emeka Inyama that “there was […]
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