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Gunmen kill former local council chairman in Borno

Posted by admin Borno, Local Govt, State News Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Unidentified gunmen, disguised as mourners, on Friday night shot dead the former chairman of Damboa Local Government, Lawan Kabu. Eyewitnesses told newsmen in Maiduguri on Saturday that Kabu was killed at his family house in Damboa, some 100 kilometers from Maiduguri, while mourning the death of his father who passed away on Wednesday. “We were […]

Nations Cup Update: Zambia, I’Coast through to AFCON s’finals

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Zambia and Ivory Coast eased into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with 3-0 wins over Sudan and co-hosts Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday in the first games of the weekend’s quarter-final clashes. A 15th minute goal from defender Stopilla Sunzu, a second after 66 minutes from captain Chris Katongo and a third four […]

Boko Haram: Intelligence operatives investigate Nigerians in the UK

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Sunday, February 5th, 2012

British security agencies are investigating Nigerians living in the United Kingdom for possible links with fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram. SUNDAY PUNCH learnt last week that the investigators were seeking to determine if the sect had sleeper cells or members that could launch attacks on the UK, particularly, during the forthcoming Olympic Games […]

Disturbing Picture: Dead conductor: LASTMA hands over officers to police

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Saturday said it had handed over three officers of the agency to the police over the death of a 24-year-old commercial bus conductor, Rasheed Alabi. Alabi was killed in Lagos last Thursday after two officials of LASTMA allegedly pulled him down from his bus to his death. […]

The President lied —Sylva

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Sunday, February 5th, 2012

February 5, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu – The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party ahead of the February 11 governorship election in Bayelsa State has snowballed into a verbal war between President Goodluck Jonathan and the deposed Governor of the state, Mr. Timipre Sylva. Apparently angry at the comments of Jonathan against him and his […]

Nigerian varsities fail to make top 1,600 in the world

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world. The University of Benin ranked 1,639th on the global scale, the 18th in Africa and […]

Boko Haram: Umar faults calls on southerners to return home

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The former military governor of Kaduna State and Chairman of the Movement for Unity and Progress, Colonel Abubakar Umar (retd) on Saturday faulted the calls by southern leaders on their kinsmen resident in the North to leave the region due to the incessant attacks on them by the militant Islamic sect, the Boko […]

Research: Nigeria Among 5 Most Active Countries on Twitter

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, February 3rd, 2012

By Raheem AkingboluWith 1,646,212, volumes of geo-located Tweets in the last three months of 2011, Nigeria is one of the five most active countries on online interactions in Africa; a research study has revealed. According to ‘How Africa Tweets’, a new research launched in Nairobi recently, the high number of young people Tweeting from mobile […]

Press Release: Gov. Akpabio Donates N50 million to Madalla Victims

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Niger, Press Releases, State News Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Press Release Akpabio Donates N50 million to Madalla Victims The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Akpabio has donated N50 million to the victims of the Madalla bomb blast at the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, Madalla in Niger State. About 43 persons were confirmed dead and more than 100 others injured in a bomb […]

Team recovers N151b embezzled pension funds

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, February 3rd, 2012

THE Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform has recovered about N151 billion of embezzled funds and assets of the Federal Government since it was set up in 2010. Most of these funds were recovered from the pension office at the Office of the Head of Service. The Chairman of the Task Team, Mr. Abdulrasheed Maina, […]