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Two Arraigned For Stealing 391 INEC’s DDC Machines

Posted by admin INEC Politics, Latest Politics Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

The police, in Lagos on Friday, arraigned two men before a Magistrate’s Court in Yaba for allegedly stealing 391 Direct Data Capture (DDC) machines belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The accused, Charles Awopetu (46) and Essien Godwin (42), were charged with conspiracy to commit felony and theft of the items. The police […]

88-year-old man attacked in Ibarapa

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Following protest that occurred on Wednesday at Idere in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State over nomination into some political offices, an 88-year-old man, Chief Silas Okunlola Lasunsi, is now lying critical ill at an Igboora hospital, having been attacked by some hoodlums. Factions of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have, for […]

Daniel Has No Case to Answer, Court Tells EFCC

Posted by admin EFCC Politics Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, on Friday, quashed the allegations of stealing, illegal deductions of local government funds, fraudulent conversion of public property and failure to declare assets against the former governor of the state, Chief Gbenga Daniel. The court said the decision followed the failure of the Economic and […]

Court Orders NDLEA to Pay Baba Suwe Within 21 Days

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Friday, ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay the N25 million judgment fee awarded against it to popular actor and comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, within 21 days. Justice Yetunde Idowu, who gave the order in granting a conditional stay of execution to […]

MEND Behind Killing of 4 Marine Policemen in Bayelsa

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Niger Delta, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Authorities of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield”, on Friday deployed local divers to retrieve the corpses of its officers, including a lieutenant colonel, who were shot dead on Thursday morning by suspected oil bunkerers, along Brass-Ogbia waterways, in Bayelsa State. Though, the identities of the slain officers […]

Group Backs Tukur For PDP Chairmanship

Posted by admin Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A pressure group, Goodluck Nigeria International, has expressed the desire of its members, home and abroad, to mobilise Nigerians to support Alhaji Bamanga Tukur for the National Chairmanship of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The statement was contained in a press release by the national chairman of the organisation, Alhaji Lekan Yusuf, and made available […]

Explosion At Bomb Factory Kills Boko Haram Members

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Residents of Kaleri ward in London Chiki area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council were again thrown into confusion at about 10:30a.m when explosions were heard at a residence close to the fence that divides University of Maiduguri and Kaleri ward. Saturday Tribune correspondent, who was at the scene, can authoritatively report that the blast killed three […]

IGP docorates new DIGs. AIGs, says its a new era (Didn’t the last IGP say that?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

ACTING Inspector General of Police [IGP] Mohammed Dikko Abubakar, yesterday decorated the newly promoted Deputy Inspectors General of Police [DIGs] and Assistant Inspectors General of Police with their ranks, stating that a new era in the policing of the country has come. Speaking shortly before the decoration, of the seven DIGs and 13 Assistant Inspectors […]

Explosion at Suspected Bomb Factory Kills Three

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A SUSPECTED Boko Haram factory house located in Kaleri and London Chiki area of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno State exploded around 10.30am yesterday, killing three persons said to be in the place at the time of the incident. The blast was heard about three kilometres radius. Other bomb-making materials recovered by the Joint Task Force […]

S’Court Upholds Uduaghan, Okorocha’s Elections

Posted by admin Delta, Imo, Judiciary, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

THE Supreme Court yesterday in Abuja put judicial seals on the elections of Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, as it dismissed the appeals seeking to nullify their victories at the polls. In separate judgments, the Supreme Court predicated its decision on the same legal pedestal and reasoning. The […]