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Minimum wage: A’Ibom workers suspend 3-week strike

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, State News Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Akwa Ibom State Government workers have suspended the strike which they embarked upon since January 3, 2012 over some problems in the implementation of the new minimum wage. The decision to suspend the strike, according to the labour leaders, was a response to the pleas by elder statesmen, the clergy and the royal fathers whom […]

Age scam rocks female U-17 camp…4 flamongoes flee camp

Posted by admin Soccer, Sports Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Following the threat from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to deal with any player who falsifies his or her age to qualify for the underage teams, four players have fled the camp of the female Under-17 team, the Flamingos, in Abuja this week. Member of the executive committee of the board, Barrister Chris Green, said […]

Day Naval personnel wreaked havoc at marine academy

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012 • East Marine Diving Academy administrative block. Inset: Udokwu PHOTOS: Sun news Publishing More Stories on This Section Ordinarily, it would be expected that when officers of the Navy visit a marine academy, the students would be enthralled. And memories of the visit would linger in the hearts of such students […]

Ojukwu: Nigerians in UK begin Christian rites

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines, South-East Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Nigerians in the United Kingdom (UK) will on Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 begin to pay their last respects to the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who died on November 26 last year. It is being organized under the auspices of Igbos in the Diaspora with a concelebrated high mass at the biggest catholic cathedral […]

Picture: 25-yr-old corps member arrested for swindling Canadian and US visa applicants

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Thursday, January 19, 2012 • Ajobola Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Detectives attached to the Special Fraud Unit (SFU), Ikoyi, Lagos, have nabbed a 25-year-old youth corps member, Aliyu Ajobola, over an alleged fraud. Crimewatch had earlier published the report of one Fred Makanjuola (at large), who fraudulently packaged programmes and […]

Ndigbo accuse FG of toying with their lives

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Barely 48 hours after the nationwide anti-subsidy removal protest ended, President Goodluck Jonathan may need an urgent and concrete action to douse the tension brewing in the South East geo-political zone. The people in the area have resolved to give back fire for fire in the event of any further killing of their kinsmen in […]

19 MASSOB members arraigned

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Nineteen members of Movement for Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) were yesterday arraigned in an Onitsha Magistrate Court on a three-court charge of kidnapping, conspiracy and assault occasioning harm. The accused persons are Monday Uteze (36); Chukwuma Okwute (29); Onyedika Obiora (21); Iruka Nwagwu (27); Luke Egwuatu (81); Onwumyili Ogonna (32); Ugochukwu Mba […]

Suspect arrested with liquid cocaine at Lagos airport

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Thursday, January 19th, 2012

A drug suspect, currently in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), is telling the anti-narcotic officials all he knows about the 7.1kg of liquid cocaine found with him at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos . The suspect, 32-year-old Patrick Chukwuemeka emulsified the drug in a solvent and packaged it […]

Bill to remove ‘’Force ‘’ from Nigeria Police passes second reading

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Abuja – A bill to alter the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 to remove the word “Force’’ from the Nigeria Police Force passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The objective of the bill is to delete the word “Force’’ from the Nigeria Police Force to read “Nigeria Police.” The bill […]

Fuel subsidy: I won’t step down – Alison-Madueke

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Oil Politics, Raw Politics Thursday, January 19th, 2012

By Okey Ndiribe and Oscarline Onwuemenyi ABUJA – The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke has dismissed calls by critics for her to step down from office to allow proper investigation into allegations of abuse in the management of petroleum subsidies. Alison-Madueke, who spoke to journalists yesterday after the inauguration of the Special Petroleum […]