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Kenyan police probe politicians as nine killed in fresh clash

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

KENYAN officials Wednesday announced the killing of nine people in the latest unrest in south-eastern part of the country, raising concern over security less than two months before the first polls since deadly post-electoral violence five years ago. The violence in the Tana River region, agency report stated, first erupted in August, pitting the Pokomo […]

FG re-awards Zik’s mausoleum contract

Posted by admin Nnamdi Azikiwe (1963-66), Presidency Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

THE Federal Government Monday re-awarded the construction of Zik’s mausoleum in Onitsha to a French company, Bouygues, at the cost of N1.49 billion. The mausoleum is the final resting place of the former President of Nigeria, the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who died in 1996, which was first awarded by the late Gen. Sani Abacha. […]

In Abia, the war against crime rages on

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Bank gives five Toyota double -cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets to the state THE fight against insecurity in Abia State was boosted at the weekend with a donation of five security Toyota double-cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets by First Bank of Nigeria Plc. to the state. The Managing Director of the […]

Imo begins fumigation of 23 flood-affected communities

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

TO prevent an outbreak of diseases, the Imo State government has begun fumigation of 23 communities ravaged by flood last year. The State Chairman of Flood Management Committee and Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Obi- Njoku, is leading in the exercise. Obi- Njoku said the exercise was necessary in view of the rising high cases […]

Federal Government to rebuild burnt Alaafin’s palace

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Ondo, Oyo, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

THE Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in Ilaje Local Council of Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, has given indications that the Federal Government would give a helping hand in rebuilding the burnt part of the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi. Akinruntan, who led an advanced presidential team on a sympathy […]

Again, hope dims for Eco’s takeoff in 2015

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, African Union (AU), Headlines Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

THE take off date of the common currency in the West African Region, the Eco, may again be shifted from the planned January 2015 if presentations by the Nigerian government, the West African Monitoring Institute (WAMI), the West African Monetary Authority (WAMA) and the ECOWAS Commission Monday at the 34th meeting of the Technical Committee […]

Jonathan’s wife flown to Germany

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan Monday, January 14th, 2013

Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, was on Monday flown to Germany for what a Presidency source said was for a check-up. Fears over Mrs. Jonathan’s health spread last year when he was away from the country for weeks. She was said to be in […]

Lawless and backward Saudi behead underage Sri Lankan maid

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 13th, 2013

(CNN) — Rizana Nafeek was a child herself — 17 years old, according to her birth certificate — when a four-month-old baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia. She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family. Although Rizana said the baby died in a […]

Killing of innocent Nigerians must stop -Abdulsalaami

Posted by admin Abdulsalaami Abubakar (1998-99), Presidency Sunday, January 13th, 2013

FORMER Head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has again warned that the cycle of blood-letting and killing of innocent Nigerians by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, would no longer be tolerated. Abdulsalami gave the warning in Minna, Saturday, during the graduation ceremony and inaugural lecture of Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development (AAIPSDS). […]

Bomb scare at Port-Harcourt International Airport

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines, Rivers, State News Sunday, January 13th, 2013

THERE were anxious moments last Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport when a passenger on board a Lagos-bound Aero aircraft attempted to disembark from the plane at the point of take-off. His action triggered off suspicion in other passengers that he might have planted a bomb in the plane and was struggling to disembark […]