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Lagos gives 10-day ultimatum to 5 million tax evaders

Posted by admin Lagos, State News Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

The Lagos State Government has given 10 days ultimatum to tax defaulters in the state to comply or relocate from the state to avert the full wrath of the law, saying it is no longer business as usual in the state for tax evaders. Speaking with newsmen at a world press briefing in Lagos, the […]

Southern Kaduna: No longer at ease

Posted by admin Kaduna, State News Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

March 21, 2012 by Segun Olatunji 9 Comments Kaduna State Governor, Patrick Yakowa | credits: File copy SEGUN OLATUNJI examines incessant attacks on Southern Kaduna villages and notes that the area has not known peace since the last April presidential poll Although the tension generated by the last April post-presidential election violence in Kaduna and […]

UTME: 1.5m candidates jostle for 500,000 admission slots

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

OVER 1.5 million candidates are to sit for the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations across the country on Saturday, the national examination body said on Tuesday. The candidates are to compete for about 500,000 admission slots in various tertiary institutions for the 2012/2013 academic season. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, said this at a […]

Jos: Gunmen kill two policemen, attack Police College

Posted by admin Nigerian Police Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

March 21, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam 157 Comments Two riot policemen attached to the Special Task Force in Jos have been killed by unknown gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen. Corporals Safiyanu Suleman and Thomas Kozah were said to have been killed in Palang, Bachict, Riyom Local Government Area on Sunday. Also, two policemen were […]

Tension still high after Yoruba-Hausa clash in Lagos

Posted by admin Lagos, State News Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Scenes of the clash. | credits: Olatunji Obasa and Kunle Falayi Tension is still high in Agiliti, Mile 12 area of Lagos following a clash between Hausa youths and their Yoruba counterparts in the area on Monday. Our correspondents report that police vans were still stationed around the area made up of three streets: Oniyanrin, […]

UNILORIN teaching hospital begins cosmetic surgery, kidney transplant

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has concluded plans to start cosmetic surgery and kidney transplant in the hospital. Speaking at a press conference in Ilorin on Tuesday, the Chief Medical Director, Prof. Abdulwaheed Olatinwo, said UITH had the capacity to match the development. He stated that the hospital’s plan to start renal care and kidney […]

Defamation: Briton demands N1bn from police

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Nigerian Police Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

A Briton, Mr. Khomeini Bukhari, who was allegedly dispossessed of his property by two policemen, has demanded N1bn from the Nigeria Police for defamation of character. He claimed that the police breached their statutory duty by not investigating the incident he said had left him traumatised. In a letter to the acting Inspector-General of Police, […]

Tension in Ojukwu’s family over property

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Members of the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu family may be setting for a showdown over the sharing formula of the ex-Biafran warlord’s property, THE PUNCH learnt on Tuesday. A prominent member of the Ojukwu family, who did not want his name in print, said, “About two weeks after the burial of Ezeigbo Gburugburu, family […]

N74bn not enough for amnesty programme – Dokubo-Asari

Posted by admin Niger Delta Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

March 20, 2012 by Friday Olokor, Abuja 206 Comments Former President of the Ijaw Youth Council and Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, on Monday insisted that the Federal Government’s N74bn vote for the rehabilitation and retraining of the Niger Delta ex-militants in the 2012 budget was not enough. In […]

How I was raped by my teacher – Nine-year-old pupil

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

A nine-year-old pupil of Sunshine Nursery and Primary School, Ile-Ife, Osun State, (name withheld) has narrated before a High Court sitting in Ife how she was allegedly raped by her teacher, Mr. Francis Ijiwande. At the hearing on Friday, the pupil alleged that Ijiwande had forceful carnal knowledge of her in 2010. The pupil told […]