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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was involved in a plane crash on Thursday, was moved to the National Hospital in Abuja for further medical attention on Friday. The governor and other survivors of the crash had earlier been admitted at a hospital in Yola, Adamawa State, where the crash occurred. Suntai arrived in […]
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House, Legislature
Friday, October 26th, 2012
As the Federal Government and labour representatives move to resume the deadlocked talks with workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria over their factitious pension fund, there are indications of fresh obstacles to successful negotiations. Essentially, the House of Representatives Committee on Power is not in favour of giving a special treatment to the […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Ex-militants who claimed to be in the third phase of the Western Delta Wing of the Federal Government Amnesty Programme on Friday alleged that the amnesty office in Ondo State did not pay them the money they were promised for their involvement in the last governorship election in the state. They alleged that the Special […]
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Headlines, State News, Taraba
Friday, October 26th, 2012
There is an indication that injured Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba may be flown to Germany for what sources at the National Hospital in Abuja described as “intensive treatment.” Saturday PUNCH gathered that an air ambulance chartered by Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State arrived early on Friday morning and left Yola for Abuja later […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja Omission of Ukrai-based Nigerian players among invited foreign players to prosecute the Super Eagles AFCON qualification matches has angered the uninvired players, who have sent the Nigeria’s Head Coach, Stephen Keshi’s, name into their black books. Dynamo Kyiv’s sensational striker, Brown Ideye, who made the disclosure while fielding questions from Daily […]
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Headlines
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Christian Agadibe She is a product of AMBO reality TV show and she tells whoever cares to listen that her virginity is still intact despite massive sexual harassment in the movie industry. The Adamawa State-born actress even boasts that nothing would make her lose her virginity to another man except her husband. Annabella Zwyndila, […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, October 26th, 2012
We’re not involved in export permit racket – NNPC By STEVE AGBOTA The Central Bank of Nigeria has disclosed that the total federally-collected revenue in the month of August stood at N1.021 trillion, representing an increase of 26.4 per cent, compared with the monthly budget estimate of N751 billion. The bank in its monthly Economic […]
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National Politics, South-East, Top Stories
Friday, October 26th, 2012

Former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has said that there is need to elect an Igbo man as president in 2015 if the country must make progress, just as he dispelled insinuation that he scuttled Dr. Alex Ekwueme’s presidential ambition in 1999. Kalu, who is the founder of Njiko Igbo, a socio-political […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, October 26th, 2012
The presidential ambition of the Ekwuemes may not be over yet, as a member of the family has decided to continue from where the former vice president, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, Stopped. He clocked 80 years last week. Dr. Ada Ekwueme-Onuora, is the Chief Medical Director, Kalva Clinic, Lagos, and a trained psychosocial rehabilitation practitioner at […]
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Governors, Headlines, State News, Taraba
Friday, October 26th, 2012
Suntai, five others critically injured By UCHE USIM, SAM OTTI, Lagos and PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi Governor of Taraba State, Danbaba Danfulani Suntai, was critically injured on Thursday night when his private jet crashlanded at Ngoro Village, located about 30 kilometers to Numan, in the state. He was piloting the airplane, which had five others on […]