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Fuel scarcity looms as suppliers drop out

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Oil Politics Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Agency Reporter 17 Comments Nigeria faces fuel shortages as a crackdown on fraud and the government’s lack of funds to pay for subsidies have prompted private firms to halt imports, which could trigger unrest and harm the country’s faltering economic expansion, Reuters reported on Friday. Half the money set aside for […]

Police kill four suspected robbers in Ogun

Posted by admin Ogun, State News Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 24 Comments The police in Ogun State said in Abeokuta on Friday that their men shot and killed four suspected highway robbers. The suspects were said to have attempted to rob a car conveying plainclothes policemen on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The suspected robbers numbering about seven had in […]

Police rescue kidnapped Enugu 6yr-old in Warri

Posted by admin Delta, Enugu, Headlines, State News Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh, Enugu 26 Comments The anti-kidnap unit of the Enugu State Police Command has rescued six-year-old Kosi Akilo, who was abducted recently from her parents’ home at River Lane Crescent in GRA, Enugu. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that the anti-kidnap unit, led by Superintendent Stephen Osaghae rescued Akilo in the early […]

Role of UK banks in Nigeria’s corruption cases

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

As Nigeria celebrates the re-birth of democracy in the country, corruption remains the bane of development in this part of the world. More worrisome is the role played by some institutions in the advanced countries in aiding corruption in the country. Some commercial banks in the United Kingdom have continued to launder millions of pounds […]

Pandemonium in NASS as Rep, aides assault FRSC official

Posted by admin House, Legislature, Senate Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

There was confusion at the lobby of the National Assembly in Abuja on Friday as a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ibrahim Olaifa, and his aides manhandled an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps. The offence of the FRSC official, Mr. Mediel Jerry, was that he reportedly clamped Olaifa’s car for parking […]

UNILAG students, police clash again

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Motunrayo Aboderin Some protesting students of the University of Lagos and policemen clashed in Lagos on Friday. The students were protesting the Democracy Day’s renaming of UNILAG as the Moshood Abiola University by President Goodluck Jonathan. As the policemen fired teargas to disperse the crowd, the students threw bottles and stones […]

I’ve forgiven the man who published my nude pictures –Anita Hogan

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Nollywood (Film Industry) Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by ’NONYE BEN-NWANKWO Nollywood actress Anita Hogan speaks with ’NONYE BEN-NWANKWO about life after her nude photograph scandal Why I took a break The entertainment industry does not require you to be active every moment. Sometimes, you have to relax and take care of other issues. I have not done any production […]

Oil theft: Navy, EFCC hand over seized vessels to firm

Posted by admin Armed Forces, EFCC Politics Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

The Nigerian Navy, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, have transferred two vessels, MT Beskid and MT Hope, impounded for oil theft to an indigenous firm, Fenix Impex Nig. Ltd. Our correspondent gathered that the ships were handed over on Wednesday to the firm by the Flag Officer Commanding, […]

Customers to provide National Identity Number at banks – CBN

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Headlines Friday, June 1st, 2012

By Babajide Komolafe LAGOS —The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, imposed fresh condition for owning a bank account saying that from January 8, 2013, the National Identity Number, NIN, would be criteria for owning and operating a bank account in the country. To this effect, from September 1 this year, CBN in conjunction with […]

Provost of UNIZIK medical school kidnapped

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 1st, 2012

BY VINCENT UJUMADU, Awka THE Provost of College of Medicine of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus was Friday kidnapped at his home town, Ogidi in Anambra State. The Provost, who is also a Senior Consultant on Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi was abducted while he was returning from […]