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Salva Kiir Calls for Forgiveness as South Sudan Gains Independence

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Top Stories Saturday, July 9th, 2011

In his first address as the President of the new South Sudan Republic, Mr Salva Kiir asked the people of the South Sudan to forgive but not forget those who committed atrocities against them during decades of conflict with the north in which some 1.5 million people died. Mr Kiir, who signed the constitution and […]

Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Hausa Actress

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines Saturday, July 9th, 2011

The Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the death sentence passed on Kano State-based Kannywood actress, Miss Rabi Ismail, by a Kano State High Court and the Court of Appeal in the Kaduna Division, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002, by drugging and drowning him. In the lead judgment of the apex court […]

Two Foreigners Bag 45 Years For Drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, July 9th, 2011

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced a Taiwanese, Fong Chiu Sen and a Chinese, Wang Richard, to a cumulative jail term of 45 years for conspiring to import about 450.4 kilogrammes of cocaine from the Republic of Chile into Nigeria. Three Nigerians, Inua Mohammed, Ezeala Kingsley and Godswill Asomugha, who have been […]

Shortage of Funds Grounds Police

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Saturday, July 9th, 2011

With the high rate of insecurity of lives and property in the country, the agency empowered with the maintenance of law and order in the country, the Nigeria Police is said to be broke and lacks adequate fund to operate. The fund for the day- to-day running of the force and fuelling of patrol vehicles […]

S/West Govs Raise Committee on Integration

Posted by admin Governors, South-West Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Governors of states that made up the old Western Region have given teeth to their quest for regional integration when they agreed to set up a 21-man technical committee to explore areas of possible cooperation among them. This was their main decision at a meeting they held in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on […]

Slain Leader’s Anniversary: Boko Haram Plans Massive Attacks •As More Residents Flee Maiduguri

Posted by admin Boko Haram Friday, July 8th, 2011

The menace of Boko Haram insurgency currently ravaging parts of the North and Abuja is far from being over following indications that the sect has concluded arrangements to orchestrate massive bomb blasts on specific targets across states of the North at the end of July. Sources close to the administration confirmed to the Saturday Tribune […]

Transport Minister’s Aide Rough Handles NIMASA DG

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries, Raw Politics Friday, July 8th, 2011

A security detail attached to the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, gave the Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Security Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Patrick Akpobolukeme, the shock of his life on Thursday when he practically bundled the man out of the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. Sources confirmed that the action of the […]

‘Why some Nigerians are trapped in America’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, July 8th, 2011

Nigerian United States based environmental scientist, Dr. Asopuru Okemgbo, has said that life in United States of America is not bed of roses, as immigrants and foreigners have to prove themselves beyond their equals. Okemgbo, who has been in the US for over 20 years, said the basic needs – water, food, access roads, transportation […]

Bomb rocks Bauchi – Police Station, bank attacked

Posted by admin Bauchi, Boko Haram, State News Friday, July 8th, 2011

Bauchi State yesterday had its dose of destruction, as bomb explosions rocked a police station in Ankaleri area of the state. One policeman was killed. This is coming two days after similar explosions jolted Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. It was gathered that the explosion occurred at about 4.30pm when gunmen stormed the community in […]

Farewell to a great minister

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Ministries, Top Stories Friday, July 8th, 2011

DURING the year that Odein Ajumogobia, SAN, was Foreign Minister, many Nigerians and foreigners sang his praises and told me that they regarded him as the best Foreign Minister this country has ever had. And I would bask in the reflected glory whenever I heard the compliments that frequently were lavished on him because he […]