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Ex-militants fault third phase amnesty list

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

A group protesting its exclusion from the amnesty granted the ex-Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government has kicked against the proposed inclusion of less than 4,000 of its members in the proposed Third Phase Amnesty programme. Our correspondent learnt on Monday that members of the group met at Ohoro Secondary School, Delta State to […]

Reps have no reason to impeach Jonathan – Balarabe

Posted by admin House, Legislature Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

September 18, 2012 by Agency Reporter 47 Comments | credits: FORMER Kaduna State Governor Balarabe Musa said on Monday that the House of Representatives had yet to advance enough and convincing reasons for threatening to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Musa made the remark in Lagos while reacting to […]

Nigeria should appeal against Bakassi judgment – Soyinka

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Wole Soyinka Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, urged the Federal Government to appeal against the ceding of Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon. Soyinka said this at the commemorative lecture of rights activist, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, at 79 in Lagos on Monday. He said Bakassi remained a testing ground for Nigeria’s corporate integrity, stressing that the government should know […]

Some national honorees may lose awards – Jonathan (Some, not all?)

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Monday sounded a note of warning to national honours awardees, threatening that the Federal Government would withdraw the honours from conferees that lacked credibility. Already, the President said he had mandated the National Honours Committee led by a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Alfa Belgore, to compile the list […]

Picture: Nigerian becomes first black VC in American varsity

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

A United States of America-based Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, has become the first black man to be appointed the Provost/Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America. Born in 1949 at Ifon, a town in Ondo State, Adesida, a professor of Electronic Engineering with outstanding works […]

Disturbing Pictures:Dead child found in man’s suitcase

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

-Punch The police have arrested a man, Usman Inuwa, with the corpse of a three-year -old child in a suitcase. The suspect resident in Bwari, a satellite town in Abuja, was said to have been arrested by security personnel after a tip-off at Maitama area of the city. He was said to have been accosted […]

We killed, arrested Boko Haram leaders – JTF

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

Soldiers manning a checkpoint in Kano shot to death two suspected Boko Haram leaders, AP reports. The dead reportedly included the spokesman for the sect, as well as a commander who operates in Kogi State, a military official said. It is unclear what happened next, though the official said soldiers shot dead both the commander […]

EFCC moves against two CJs

Posted by admin EFCC Politics Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Three other judges probed over fat bank accounts FIVE judges, two of them State Chief Judges, may have fallen foul of the law against corruption. They are now under investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly keeping fat accounts. The anti-graft commission has already obtained the statements of accounts of […]

N5, 000 banknote: Senators, Reps plan showdown with Sanusi

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), House, Legislature, Senate Sunday, September 16th, 2012

A show down is looming between the National Assembly and the Governor of the Central Bank (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi over his insistence to introduce the N5000 banknote. The two chambers are due to resume from their annual recess on Tuesday with members determined to stop the introduction of the new banknote. Influential members […]

ACN chieftains allege threats to their lives

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Two Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) leaders in Akoko, Ondo North Senatorial District, Olugbenga Omole and Barry Obamehinti (aka (Beri-Bonje), at the weekend alleged that some notable leaders of the ruling Labour Party (LP) were threatening to intimidate them for working against their party. It was learnt that Omole, who is a regular discussant on […]