by Chukwudi Akasike 165 Comments Vandalised vehicles. Inset:Ahanonu in his burnt house. | credits: Chukwudi Akasike THE people of Omuokiri Aluu Community have begun to count their losses barely 24 hours after students from the University of Port Harcourt embarked on reprisals to avenge the killings of their colleagues. The angry students had on Tuesday […]
Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were lynched on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community has said that policemen were present during the killings. Chinwe who spoke in a telephone interview during a public affairs programme […]
A Kano-bound IRS Airlines plane departing the Lagos airport on Wednesday morning collided with an abandoned truck beside the taxiway, forcing the pilot to cancel the flight. The wing of the Fokker-100 aircraft, it was learnt, collided with the truck which fell into a drainage on Tuesday. The truck belongs to a Federal Airports Authority […]
A surprising division emerged in the ranks of the people of Bakassi Peninsula, who are now making a different demand from the Federal Government. Led by former presidential aide, Senator Florence Ita-Giwa, the people, under the auspices of Bakassi People General Assembly, were now demanding that the Federal Government should forget about appealing the judgment […]
Written by Leon Usigbe Tuesday, 09 October 2012 PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, decorated the newly appointed service chiefs with their new ranks, He charged them to do more to end the persistent security challenges facing the country as well as the ongoing crude oil theft in the Niger Delta. Those sworn in and decorated […]
Written by Clement Idoko Tuesday, 09 October 2012 THE Federal Government has announced the selection of 101 First Cass honours degree candidates as recipients of 2012 Presidential Special Scholarship for Innovation and Development. The awardees will be sent abroad to study in the top 25 universities in the world up to Masters and PhD levels. […]
Written by Adebayo Waheed Tuesday, 09 October 2012 The Senate Committee on Education, on Monday, issued a two-week ultimatum to the authorities of the University of Ibadan to explain its financial activities and budgetary implementation in the last one year. The committee, chaired by Senator Uche Chukwumerije, made the demand during its visit to […]
Written by Hassan Ibrahim Tuesday, 09 October 2012 Christian leaders from the North have said in Kaduna that they would no longer support the emergence of a Muslim president from the North since the region had had enough national Muslim leaders from the region since independence. The elders, under the aegis of Northern States’ Christian […]
Canada is to assist in enhancing the operational capabilities of Nigerian security services to enable them respond adequately to internal and regional security challenges. This came as both countries agreed that effective political, economic, security and development cooperation among them would help to build a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria. They also committed themselves to promoting […]
THE Federal Government yesterday finally decided that it would not appeal the 2002 Bakassi judgment. In a statement it released at 11.30pm yesterday and signed by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, the Federal Government stated that the firm of international legal practitioners it hired to advise on the merits and demerits of the […]
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