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S’Court rules on Borno guber appeals Oct 31

Posted by admin Borno, Governors, Judiciary, State News Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Supreme Court has fixed October 31, 2011 to deliver judgement in the consolidated appeals bordering on the Borno State Governorship Election Petition where the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the April 26, 2011 polls, Alhaji Mohammed Goni is challenging the victory of Governor Kashim Shettima of the All Nigeria Peoples Party […]

Arms importation: Judge orders journalists, lawyers, litigants to leave courtroom

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Citing the need to protect national security, a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants to leave the court room as trial commenced in the arms importation case against two persons, an Iranian and a Nigerian. The Iranian, Azim Aghajani and Alli Abass Jega are currently being tried for […]

Army employs war dogs (In the midst of human unemployment)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Latest Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Nigerian Army said it has employed war dogs to detect narcotics and explosives as well as locate dead and decomposing human tissues. Speaking while declaring open the Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police training week in Abuja, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant-General Onyeabor Azubuike Ihejirika, also disclosed that the dogs would be trained […]

Gaddafi, son buried in secret location

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

MISRATA (AFP) – The body of Libyan ex-leader Muammer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gaddafi’s remains were buried “overnight in a religious ceremony” along with the […]

States sue FG, want Excess Oil Funds in S’Court’s custody

Posted by admin Latest Politics, State News Monday, October 24th, 2011

SOME states of the federation, opposed to the newly launched Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), have sued the Federal Government. Their action followed the failure of the states and the central government to resolve the legality and propriety of the SWF through dialogue. The suit came three years after the Federal Government opted for an out-of […]

Abia sack: Imo indigenes return

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, Imo, State News Monday, October 24th, 2011

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA IMO indigenes and even Abia born women married to Imo husbands have reportedly been disengaged from the Abia public service prompting disenchantment across Imo. As the administration in Owerri ponders its response, Chidi Nkwopara reports on the feelings of Imo stakeholders. THE threat issued by Abia State Government that it would sack […]

Arms import: Judge adopts secret trial for Iranian, Nigerian suspects

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics Monday, October 24th, 2011

By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—Trial resumed, Monday, behind closed doors in the case against an Iranian, Azim Aghajani, and a Nigerian, Alli Abass Jega, accused of importing arms illegally into Nigeria from Republic of Iran. Trial judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke, who ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants out of the court room as the case was called, […]

How Boko Haram leader was killed, Army chief tells court

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics Monday, October 24th, 2011

ABUJA— Commander of a military task-force in Borno State, Colonel Benjamin Ahanotu, who arrested the former leader of the Boko Haram sect, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009 and handed him over to the police, Monday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that he was murdered by the police. Col. Ahanotu testified before the trial […]

I killed Gaddafi, Libyan rebel claims

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, October 24th, 2011

A LIBYAN revolutionary fighter has bragged in a leaked video that he was the man who killed that country’s despotic former ruler, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. The young man, who is pictured but has not yet been identified, said he killed the fallen dictator because he could not bear the thought of taking him alive. ‘We […]

Ex-Governors who had passed through EFCC furnace

Posted by admin Governors, Latest Politics Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

So far, 17 ex-governors have passed through the furnace of the EFCC. And 13 of them are 52 cases listed by the EFCC on its website as “high profile cases.” They include: Ayo Fayose The former Ekiti State governor was arraigned at Federal High Court, Lagos, on 51-count charge of embezzling N1.2 billion. The matter […]