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Super Eagles’ Ahmed Musa’s house burgled

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, August 3rd, 2012

NIGERIA international Ahmed Musa lost many valuables after his house in Kano was burgled on Wednesday. Speaking with MTNFootball.com from Moscow, the CSKA Moscow winger said he was sad about the incident but at the same grateful to God that no life was lost. “Armed robbers attacked my house in Kano today(Wednesday). I was sad […]

Letter: High cost of education in Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, August 3rd, 2012

THROUGHOUT the world, education plays a crucial role in all sectors of a nation’s economy. Education is very essential for nurturing an individual’s mind. However, the high cost of education across the country today has negated the United Nation’s perception of education for all as a right, rich or poor. Exhorbitant school fees do not […]

Niger: Sharia court judge in trouble over alleged abduction

Posted by admin Niger, State News Friday, August 3rd, 2012

A Sharia Court Judge (names withheld) at Kateregi Village, in Katcha Local Government Area of Niger State is now in trouble over an allegation of abducting a 25- year-old accused, standing trial in his court. Nigerian Tribune gathered that the victim, Mallama Hadiza Hajara Umar, was ordered to be remanded in Minna prison custody by […]

NDLEA nabs man with cocaine in anus at Lagos airport

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Obivuko Ifeanyi, with 210grams of substances that tested positive for cocaine. Obivuko, who inserted the drugs into his anus, was detected with the aid of a body scanner during the inward clearance […]

London 2012: Man fined for racial abuse to Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Friday, August 3rd, 2012

PETRAS Lescinskas, who was arrested during the Lithuania-Nigeria match, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated offence. The Lithuanian man who gave a Nazi salute during an Olympic basketball match has become the first person to be convicted of a racially aggravated offence at the Games and fined £2,500. He was told that his behaviour and […]

Boko Haram: US lifts restrictions on citizens’ movement •Cautions them to be more careful

Posted by admin American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

THE United States (US) embassy in Abuja has lifted the restrictions on US citizens not to visit establishments identified as potential targets. A security message entitled: “The US Mission in Nigeria issues this emergency message to update US citizens on the current threat situation in Nigeria”, signed by Carol A. Cox, Consular Section chief, said […]

Jonathan visits amnesty trainees in Trinidad and Tobago

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Niger Delta Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, visited the National Energy Skills Centre (NESC) at Point Lisas, Couva in Trinidad and Tobago, in continuation of his three-day state visit to the Caribbean nation. The centre is currently training no fewer than 70 Niger Delta youths in heavy equipment operations, crane operations, metal arc welding, industrial mechanical maintenance […]

Insecurity: House chickens out of summons to Jonathan

Posted by admin House, Legislature Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

THERE are strong indications that members of the House of Representatives have abandoned the summons to President Goodluck Jonathan to appear before them to address the worsening insecurity in the country. Five weeks after the June 19 resolution by the House to summon the President, The PUNCH found out on Thursday that there had been […]

Okonjo-Iweala in Senate: Nigeria not broke, cash problems normal

Posted by admin Latest Politics Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday, tried to douse the controversy set off by the implementation of the budget by the Goodluck Jonathan administration. Okonjo-Iweala spoke at the Senate when she appeared before the special joint committee on the performance of the 2012 budget. Asked if the country was broke, she said, […]

Subsidy scam: Court denies accused bail

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Oil Politics Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

*Says he has previous criminal records By ABDULWAHAB ABDULAH, ONOZURE DANIA & MICHAEL OLADEPO LAGOS – An Ikeja High Court yesterday refused to grant bail to one of the oil marketers, Oluwaseun Ogunbanbo who is being prosecuted alongside others on the ground of his previous criminal records even as others were admitted to bail. Ogunbambo, […]