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Tragedy: Train crushes student to death

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, November 28th, 2011

A student of the Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun, was crushed to death by a passenger train at Old Garage, Osogbo yesterday afternoon. The student, who was resuming to Ila-Orangun was inside a commercial bus travelling to Ota-Efun where she intended boarding a bus to her school after over four months strike of lecturers […]

Why we can’t announce Ojukwu’s death now –Kinsmen

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, November 28th, 2011

Compliance to the customs and tradition of the people of Nnewi may delay the official pronouncement of the death of Chief Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu by the Igwe-in-council of Nnewi to the people of the town. Daily Sun investigations in Nnewi yesterday revealed that when a man of influence dies in the town, his mother’s kindred and […]

Ikemba was forthright -Buhari

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Monday, November 28th, 2011

Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, has eulogized Ojukwu, saying “Ojukwu was a forthright and honourable player.” In a statement signed by the residential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the April, 2011 election, Buhari said: “It is with great shock that I received the news of the passing away of […]

Boko Haram: Why Northern retired Generals are silent

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Monday, November 28th, 2011

A source closed to Army Generals of the Northern extraction has attributed the silence of the officers from the region on the menace of the Boko Haram sect on the fear of being misquoted by the public. According to the source would not like to make public comment on the issue to avoid being misquoted […]

Jonathan visits Kogi today

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Kogi, Presidency, State News Sunday, November 27th, 2011

THE people of Kogi will today receive President Goodluck Jonathan as he pays a one-day official visit to the state. While in the state, President Jonathan is expected to commission various projects put in place by the administration of Governor Ibrahim Idris. Among them are the newly constructed office of the state governor, office of the […]

Boko Haram burns police HQ, churches in Yobe •4 policemen killed, 20 others wounded

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Sunday, November 27th, 2011

THE fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, again struck on Saturday evening, killing four policemen, wounding about 20 others and burning some churches as they attacked the police head-quaters in Geidam, Yobe State. The attack on the police headquarters, according to Agency report, set the small North-East ablaze, in a wave of night-time gun and bomb attacks by […]

Ojukwu’s burial, a collective decision -Gov Obi •As IBB, Buhari, others pay tribute

Posted by admin Latest Politics Sunday, November 27th, 2011

GOVERNOR Peter Obi of Anambra State has appealed to those seeking to know the details of ex-Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s burial to be patient as, according to him, “it will be a collective decision in consultation with various stakeholders, with his immediate family taking the lead.” He said this in reaction to numerous calls […]

Group wants UNN renamed after Ojukwu

Posted by admin Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, November 27th, 2011

The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) a non-government organization (NGO) has advised the Federal Government to immortalize the late Biafran warlord and national leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Odumegwu Ojukwu by renaming the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) as Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON). The group said renaming a university of the UNN’s […]

Adieu, Ojukwu, The Ikemba of Nnewi – By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Kunle Ojeleye, NNP Columnists Saturday, November 26th, 2011

By Dr. Kunle Ojeleye, London, UK, – Nov. 27, 2011 – Earlier on today, the sun set on one of the most enduring personalities that has ever come out of the nation now known as Nigeria, as I received with sadness the news of the transition of Chief Odimegwu Chukwuemeka Ojukwu to eternity. Here is […]

Beyond the Arik Air-British Airways Face-off – By Dr. Jideofor Adibe

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists Saturday, November 26th, 2011

By Dr. Jideofor Adibe, London, UK – Nov. 27, 2011 – There are several things I feel the federal government is getting wrong. The list is long: its decision to push for a single term tenure despite massive public opposition, plans to remove so-called subsidies on petroleum products on spurious arguments that do not convince […]