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Gbaramatu youths warn Chevron over EGCDF

Posted by admin Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

WARRI – GBARAMATU youths of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State have warned Chevron Nigeria Limited to stay away from the feud between youths of the Kingdom and their representatives in the Egbema Gbaramatu Cmmunities Development Foundation, EGCDF. In a letter addressed to the management of Chevron in Lagos and ESCRAVOS, signed […]

NDLEA nabs 26-yr-old man with 1.8kg of hard drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Sunday, January 29th, 2012

By Daniel Eteghe Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, yesterday, arrested a 26 years old drug trafficker over unlawful exportation of 1.800 kilogrammes of methamphetamine worth over N5million at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The suspect, Mr. Nzeka Christian, who claimed that his pastor prayed for him to have a successful trip […]

Fear mars Sunday worship in Kano

Posted by admin Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Christians in the city of Kano were searched outside church on Sunday by troops on alert after Islamists who recently killed 185 in the city vowed their violent campaign would go on. Some in the flashpoint northern city avoided services entirely, fearing fresh attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist sect whose daring […]

Okogie ill, flown to India

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, January 29th, 2012

By Sam Eyoboka LAGOS – There were indications that the 75-year old Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has been flown abroad for medical treatment. Sources close to the church said, Sunday, that the cleric was rushed out to India for an undisclosed ailment, but information available to Vanguard said he could not stand […]

Ex-militant runs amok, kills speed boat driver

Posted by admin Niger Delta Sunday, January 29th, 2012

By Emma Amaize WARRI- A notorious ex-militant went berserk, weekend, at Obotebe community, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State and gunned down a speed boat driver, Salemon Ariri. He fled the community after the incident but irate villagers set ablaze the residences of his father, a prominent leader of the town and other relations […]

Gunmen attack police station in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Kano – (AFP) Gunmen attacked a police station on Sunday in Nigeria’s flashpoint city of Kano sparking a shootout with police, witnesses and police said. The attack followed the January 20 assault by the Islamist group Boko Haram that killed at least 185 people in the city — and after a string of recent threats […]

‘I’ve Lived in Kano For 25 Years, But Today, I am Afraid… So, I’ve to Move My Family Home’

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, NNP Spotlight, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Northern Governors Plead With Non-Indigenes To Remain • Boko Haram, In New Message,Threatens To Bomb Sokoto IN droves, they besieged motor parks in the ancient city that has been under siege of gunmen in the past few days. The intended journey was not one of the numerous routine trips they had always done, to and […]

Acting Governor Sacks SSG

Posted by admin Adamawa, Governors, State News Sunday, January 29th, 2012

THE Acting Governor of Adamawa State, Alhaji Umaru Fintri, has commenced formation of his cabinet, sacking, in the process, Mr. Kobis Ari, former Secretary to the State Government under the defunct government of Murtala Nyako. The new SSG, Prof. Liman Tukur, had been chairman of the Adamawa Universal Basic Education Board, prior to his sack […]

Boko Haram Threatens Sultan of Sokoto, warns of release of members

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Religion, Sokoto, State News, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories Sunday, January 29th, 2012

THE Boko Haram sect has warned the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, to intervene in the release of its arrested members by the police, as failure to do so could lead to attacks and bombings of Sokoto, as it did in Kano on Friday, January 20, 2012. The sect alleged that many […]

I see revolution –Kokori – FG used juju on Labour

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Kokori • Photo: Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Remember Chief Frank Kokori, former General Secretary of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)? Any day, his name rings a bell in Nigeria. He is one of those whose names are synonymous with the labour movement in Nigeria. During the reign of […]