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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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, […]
Yola – Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Alhaji Nasir el-Rufai has taken a hard knock on the present PDP-led Federal government, describing the party’s regimes since the enthronement of democracy in the country as disastrous. “PDP regimes in the past twelve years of our democratic system is not only disastrous, but completely against […]
Friday February 03, 2012 •Uwazurike The burial of the 12 Adazi-Nnukwu citizens killed in Mubi Adamawa State yesterday threw up another round of calls for Ndigbo to stand up and take their destiny in their hands. Leader of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ra;ph Uwazuruike who was […]
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