TWO Senators and a former governor are currently under surveillance with a view to determining their alleged involvement in the activities of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, said on Wednesday. The three, according to Abubakar, are Senators Ahmed Zanna and Ali Ndume, and a former Governor of Borno State, […]
Nigerian Association of Greater Rochester, Inc. (NAGRoch., Inc), P. O. Box 77422, Rochester, New York nagroch@gmail.com My Fellow Nigerians and friends of Nigeria, It is with great pleasure and humility that I write this summary of the activities during our 52nd Independence Anniversary Celebration in Rochester New York. We embarked on a very ambitious program […]
A shoemaker who is a former resident of Teshie is accusing his landlord of snatching his wife with whom he has four children after losing his sight. Narrating the incident on Abrabo Asempa FM mid-morning show, Mr. Osei Owusu says he lost his sight while working as a shoemaker, subsequently became jobless. The wife, he […]
By Prince Charles Dickson | Jos, Nigeria | Oct. 31, 2012 – We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a public commentator, I […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — A Rwandan court sentenced the country’s top opposition political leader to eight years in prison on Tuesday for treason and on a charge stemming from this central African nation’s murderous ethnic attacks 18 years ago — genocide denial. The opposition leader, Victoire Ingabire, returned to Rwanda in 2010 after living abroad […]
Published on October 30, 2012 by pmnews Twenty-One Nigerian pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia, the National Hajj Commission has announced. Male pilgrims that died were 13. The commission’s bulletin shows that Katsina State has the highest figure of four; Sokoto, three, Kano, Lagos, Zamfara and Ogun recorded two deaths each. Oyo, Gombe, Yobe and the […]
Family of Lucy Ukpong, the 18-year-old sales girl killed by some policemen in Apo, Abuja on October 12, have said nothing short of justice will be acceptable to them. This is just as Lucy was buried amid tears at Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State on Saturday. PUNCH Metro had reported on Friday […]
US tennis superstars Serena and Venus Williams have landed Nigeria ahead of the two-nation tour that will see them play exhibition matches and train kids. Venus arrived at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos at about 3PM on Tuesday, October 30,2012 with officials from the ‘Breaking The Mould,’ BTM campaign team as well as pressmen […]
Two inmates of the Federal Prisons in Ahoada, headquarters of Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, have been shot dead by the operatives of the Joint Task Force (JTF) and policemen. They were attempting to escape through the ceiling after a jail break. Despite the quick intervention of the security agencies, four of […]
China said Monday it had lodged a diplomatic protest over the fatal shooting of a Chinese worker in Nigeria and demanded that Nigeria take “concrete measures” to better protect its nationals. Gunmen shot dead the Chinese construction worker in the violence-torn city of Maiduguri on Friday last week, the second killing of a Chinese national […]
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