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Picture: Suspect hides cocaine in bedsheets …says ‘I have six children to feed’

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, August 15th, 2011

A mother-of-six, Folashade Agu, 47, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for trafficking 2.250kg of cocaine. Agu showed the ingenuity of a criminal mind by hiding the drug inside the bedsheets she brought from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was arrested alongside two other suspected Nigerian drug traffickers at the Murtala Mohammed […]

Suicide bomber gunned down …As police foil bombing in Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories Monday, August 15th, 2011

A deadly explosion was yesterday averted by the police in Borno when a 25-year-old suicide bomber with heavily wired Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) was gunned down by policemen at the entrance of the state headquarters of the police in Maiduguri. The bomber had defiled attempts to check his Honda Accord car at the command’s gate […]

Chelsea Midfielder, Mikel Obi’s Father Kidnapped in Jos – ‘Please let him go’ – Mikel Obi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 15th, 2011

Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has appeared on television to plea for his father’s release after he was kidnapped in Nigeria. Michael Obi, who runs an interstate transport company in the city of Jos, has been missing since Friday when he failed to return home from work, and the player’s representatives have confirmed that he […]

Fresh moves to remove EFCC chairman uncovered

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Latest Politics Monday, August 15th, 2011

FRESH moves to replace the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mrs Farida Waziri, were unfolded, at the weekend with indications emerging that both anti-and pro-Farida forces have started a consistent lobby of power brokers in the presidency. Sources in the know told the Nigerian Tribune that the presidency had been bombarded […]

Murder of okada rider causes tension in Jos

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Monday, August 15th, 2011

There was palpable tension in Jos, at the weekend, following the gruesome murder of a commercial motorcyclist by some unknown persons at Eto Baba in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The corpse of the okada rider identified as Kamilu Yahaya, was discovered in a stream in Eto Baba. It was learnt that […]

Okonjo-Iweala rules out conflict with CBN Gov

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Ministries, National Politics Monday, August 15th, 2011

The Finance Minister designate, Mrs Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said her role won’t put her in opposition with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor,Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. Apparently dousing speculations that she would clash with the CBN Governor on the demarcation between fiscal and monetary policies, Okonjo-Iweala said both of them would work together for the […]

No going back on single term – Presidency

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency, Top Stories Monday, August 15th, 2011

ABUJA— NOTWITHSTANDING the spate of criticisms that greeted the plan by the presidency to send a bill containing a single term proposal for president and governors to the National Assembly, it emerged, yesterday, that President Goodluck Jonathan is not about to jettison the plan. Those wishing that the idea would be dumped have therefore been […]

Policeman kills man over N20 in Anambra

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Monday, August 15th, 2011

AWKA- IRATE youths at Governor Peter Obi’s home town, Agulu, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, burnt down the police post in the town following the killing of a middle–aged man by a policeman at a check-point. An eye-witness said the man, who hailed from Awgbu in Orumba North Local Government Area, […]

We ‘ll monitor clean-up of Ogoni oil spills – Ihedioha

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, August 15th, 2011

ABUJA— Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha has said the legislature will play an effective oversight function to monitor the restoration of the devastated environment of Ogoni land and other communities affected by oil spills in the Niger Delta. While acknowledging the submission of the report of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, on […]

Customs impounds two oil tankers in Kano, nabs three suspects

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, August 14th, 2011

The Kano/Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has impounded two oil tankers, loaded with contrabands, worth several millions of naira, just as the command also arrested three suspects in connection with the attempted smuggling. The two oil tankers were said to have been intercepted at Gaida Village in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano […]