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Why Lagos deserves special revenue allocation, by Fashola

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, May 28th, 2012

By MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO IKEJA— Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, justified why the Federal Government must accord the state a special status in the revenue allocation formula, stressing that “Lagos is to Nigeria what the neck is to the body.” Fashola spoke at a state banquet to mark the 45th anniversary of the creation […]

Picture: Army court-martials 2 colonels, 12 others for alleged misconduct

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Monday, May 28th, 2012

Jos — The Nigerian Army, Monday, began the court-martial of 14 soldiers serving in Special Task Forces in Maiduguri, Jos and Bauchi for alleged misconduct. The accused included two Colonels, a Master Warrant Officer, seven Lance Corporals and four Privates. The GOC, 3 Armoured Division, Maj. Gen Jack Nwaogbo, while inaugurating the court at the […]

CAR president becomes Celestial Church leader

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, May 28th, 2012

BANGUI (AFP) – The president of the Central African Republic (CAR), Francois Bozize, was elevated to the status of religious leader Monday, state radio said Monday. Francois Bozize “Whit Monday was an opportunity for the Celestial Church of Christ New Jerusalem to inaugurate a temple in Bambari and canonise the president of the republic as […]

UN court to sentence Charles Taylor on Wednesday

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, May 28th, 2012

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AFP) – Liberian warlord Charles Taylor will be sentenced for war crimes by a special UN court on Wednesday, after being found guilty of arming Sierra Leone rebels in return for “blood diamonds”. The hearing at 0900 GMT before judges of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, situated just outside The Hague, will […]

Gunmen attack Muslim worshippers in Potiskum

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Monday, May 28th, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers outside the home of a controversial cleric in Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding others, the military and residents said. The attack in the northeastern city of Potiskum occurred outside the cleric’s home, where he leads prayers on Sunday evenings, but it […]

Gunmen kill 4 traders in Yola

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, State News Monday, May 28th, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group on Monday in the city of Yola, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores of shootings and bomb attacks in northern, but it was not immediately […]

2015: Jonathan divides North

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, May 28th, 2012

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor, Henry Umoru, Abdulsalam Muhammad & Luka BinNIyat ABUJA—Prominent political stakeholders from the North were at the weekend divided in their response to the renewed bid by elder-statesman Chief Edwin Clark to position President Goodluck Jonathan for another term in office in 2015. While nearly all of them including those who […]

Jonathan denies complicity in alleged N155bn oil block scam

Posted by admin Armed Forces, National Politics, Top Stories Monday, May 28th, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, denied his alleged complicity in a N155 billion oil block scandal allegedly involving Shell, ENI subsidiaries in Nigeria, a Nigerian oil firm and a former Petroleum Minister, Mr Dan Etete. The President who had kept mum since an online news medium, Premium Times, last week, disclosed […]

Police arrest 5 students with charms, alcohol

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, May 28th, 2012

By DAYO JOHNSON, DAUD OLATUNJI & AMAKA ABAYOMI ABEOKUTA – Ogun, Ondo and Lagos states, yesterday, marked the Children’s Day with funfare and policy statements from their governors. In Abeokuta, men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, arrested no fewer than five secondary schools students at M.K.O. Abiola Stadium, the venue of […]

Picture: Amazing story of a corp member – Back from the dead

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Sunday, May 27th, 2012

This corps member resurrected in mortuary, but is now blind Photo: Sun News Publishing By: VICTOR EBIMOMI Date: Sun, 05/27/2012 – 15:00 Yobe State, for the national youth service programme. But his world turned upside down when he got involved in a car crash that claimed the lives of 16 of his fellow corps members […]