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Reps want FG to declare Women Day public holiday

Posted by admin Women Politics Thursday, March 8th, 2012

BY EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA—THE House of Representatives, Thursday, moved that the Federal Government should declare March 8 of every year to commemorate Women Day celebrations. The House condemned all forms of discriminatory practices against the womenfolk and praised their courage and dexterity in the face of discrimination. Towards this direction, the House resolved that every […]

Police probe death of three suspected cable vandals in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, March 8th, 2012

By Tony Edike ENUGU—THE Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigations into the mysterious death of three young men suspected to be cable vandals inside a NITEL underground pit within the Ogbete Main Market in Enugu, the state capital. Some traders at the market reportedly discovered the decomposing corpses of the three men inside the […]

Presidency decries ACN attack on Jonathan

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Party Politics, Presidency Thursday, March 8th, 2012

BY BEN AGANDE ABUJA – The Presidency,Thursday, decried what it said was a personal attack on President Goodluck Jonathan and the office of the president by the Action Congress of Nigeria saying that the denigration of the office and person of the president is unhealthy for the country’s political landscape. In a statement in Abuja, […]

Independence Day bomber: Kinsmen urge IG to probe death

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Emma Amaize WARRI- THE people of Kalafiogbene community in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, the country-home of Francis Osuwo, alias General Gbokos, the alleged October 1, 2010 Independence Day bomber, who died in detention at Kuje Prisons, Abuja, Thursday, called on the Inspector General of Police to probe the death of their son, […]

Diplomatic Row: S/Africa apologises for turning away Nigerians

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, March 8th, 2012

PRETORIA (AFP) – South Africa on Thursday apologised for blocking 125 Nigerians from the country and unveiled new immigration procedures aimed at ending a diplomatic row between the continent’s two powerhouses. The dispute blew up after immigration officials at Johannesburg’s main airport on Friday refused entry to Nigerians over suspicions that their yellow fever vaccination […]

Boko Haram murders British, Italian hostages – Jonathan

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, National Politics, Top Stories Thursday, March 8th, 2012

ABUJA (AFP) – A British and an Italian hostage killed on Thursday were murdered by “their Boko Haram captors” and those responsible have been arrested, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement. Jonathan “condemned the killing of two kidnapped foreigners — an Italian and a British citizen — in Sokoto state Thursday by their […]

Nigeria’s Seven Secrets and The Inevitability of a Sovereign National Conference (1)By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists Thursday, March 8th, 2012

By Dr. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, Yola, Nigeria, March 8, 2012 – Nigeria is a secret; and she has seven secrets. For this country to become profitable to the majority of Nigerians the secrets must be exposed in the most lucid manner that not a few Nigerians shall know about these and hopefully catch the necessary […]

Why Ibori’s Loot Must Not Go Back to Delta State – By Raheem Oluwafunminyi

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Delta, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News Thursday, March 8th, 2012

By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Ibadan, Nigeria, March 8, 2012 – In a country like ours where corruption is a norm and culture, quickly embraced and never fought to either a standstill or logical conclusion, the repatriation of Ibori’s loots by the Southwark Crown Court in the UK, remains a source of concern to this writer, most […]

Lawyer’s absence stalls trial of Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram suspect

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Thursday, March 8th, 2012

THE Federal High Court, Abuja Division yesterday fixed April 3, 2012 for definite trial of Mohammed Ashafa over his alleged link with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic Boko Haram sect. Although Ashafa was first arrested and arraigned and granted bail in 2006, he was re-arrested by the State Security Service (SSS) in July 2011 for alleged […]

Female banker kidnapped

Posted by admin Women Politics Thursday, March 8th, 2012

There was pandemonium yesterday at the Tinubu Estate Road, Isheri North in Lagos , when a female banker (name of the bank withheld) was kidnapped by gunmen. The female banker, Jumoke Oyegbola, wife of the business director, Verdant Zeal Marketing Communications Ltd was abducted at about 9.00pm when she was returning home from work. The […]