The relations between Nigeria and South Africa over yellow fever vaccination took an alarmingly embarrassing turn recently with both countries deporting the citizens of each other. The ostensible reason for yellow fever vaccination was what both countries needed to unleash the age-long hostilities and rivalry on one another. This is the same South Africa when […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olugbenga Ashiru, has urged new ambassadors to ensure the protection of Nigerians abroad. He said this just as he announced that the government’s policy on reciprocal diplomacy had come to stay. Ashiru said this in an address during the induction course for 88 Ambassadors-Designate in Abuja on Monday. According to […]
A Nigerian, who allegedly carried out two sex attacks on women he met in a Cambridge nightclub has been jailed. According to Cambridge First on Monday, Anthony Iyare, 29, attacked a woman in the toilets of the Fez Club in May, a year after sexually assaulting a woman he had met at the same club. […]
March 13, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa Unidentified gunmen believed to be cultists attacked bars along Hospital Road Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Sunday night, killing at least three persons including a sex worker. THE PUNCH learnt that the bandits, who allegedly wore police bulletproof vests, stormed the relaxation spots about 9.30pm and opened fire on […]
March 13, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Lekan Adetayo and Oluwole Josiah, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday begged governors from the North-East to back his candidate to be the new chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. A source in government told THE PUNCH that the President did so at a meeting held at the Presidential […]
March 13, 2012 by Kunle Falayi As the three-day funeral of Abiodun Ademola, who was allegedly shot by a Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Segun Fabunmi, commenced at Yaya Abatan in Ogba area of Lagos on Monday, policemen stormed the venue of the event. The policemen, our correspondent learnt, were from the Pen Cinema Police Station, […]
March 13, 2012 by Emmanuel Addeh, Warri Police in Delta State have begun manhunt for the kidnappers of five persons in Warri on Sunday. Two daughters of a Chevron Nigeria Limited contractor, aged two and nine years and their mother who works with Shell, were among those abducted by unknown persons around the Effurum Roundabout, […]
NO fewer than 61 people, believed to be itinerant Fulani herdsmen, have been arrested for poaching by the Old Oyo National Park at its Oke-Ogun forest reserves. The park is one of the seven National Parks in the country created in 1991. Addressing newsmen in Oyo town, the conservation officer in charge of the park, […]
Font size: Executive Secretary of PPPRA, Reginald C. Stanley The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has shortlisted 42 oil marketing firms to import 4,794,075,000 litres of premium motor spirit (petrol) for the second quarter of this year. In a statement signed by the Executive Secretary of PPPRA, Reginald C. Stanley, the agency said […]
The Nasarawa State Police have confirmed the killing of eight persons by unknown gunmen, who attacked Tse Yaji Village near Kadarko Town in the Keana Local Government Area of Nasarawa State on Sunday night. Its spokesman Cornelius Ocholi, confirmed the killing in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lafia yesterday. NAN […]
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