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FG hospitals turn back patients in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Monday, February 28th, 2011

ENUGU — It was a tale of woes for patients in Lagos and Enugu yesterday as striking doctors were adamant to continue their strike. Patients who visited the three Federal Government-owned health institutions in Enugu yesterday for medication were turned back following a one-week sympathy strike embarked upon by the medical doctors. Ironically, some of […]

Gunmen kill man, wife, 3 kids in Plateau

Posted by admin Plateau, State News Monday, February 28th, 2011

Five members of a family at Dabwa village, Kaduna Vom district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State were yesterday morning killed, while a little girl, believed to be the last child was wounded. Daily Sun gathered that nothing was removed from the house of the family head, whose name was given as […]

Power show: Jonathan locks Oshiomhole out of Benin

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, February 28th, 2011

In an apparent display of presidential powers, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday locked out the Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, some of his aides as well as other commercial passengers from Benin City, where ironically Oshiomhole is chief executive. The President’s security apparatus, The Sun learnt, simply shut down the Benin airspace over what it […]

Lagos/Jebba rail line ready for use

Posted by admin Lagos, State News Sunday, February 27th, 2011

The Nigerian Railway Corporation has recorded another milestone as the 488 kilometer Lagos /Jebba rail line is now ready for traffic of passengers and goods. The NRC Managing Director, Seyi Sijuwade, in a statement signed by the Assistant Director of Public Relations, Mr. David Ndakosu, said as soon as the rail line was commissioned […]

Protest against Arik’s flight delay

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Scores of Kaduna-bound passengers at the old domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Saturday, protested the delay of their flight by Arik Air. Eye witnesses said trouble started when the angry travellers insisted that the airline should compensate them for delaying the flight for no clear reason. Unconfirmed sources said some […]

Okah roars from jail – Nigeria ripe for revolution

Posted by admin National Politics, Top Stories Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Even in jail, purported leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, remains unrepentant and unfazed. From his South African prison cell, he spoke at the weekend and called for the “flushing out” of the political class in Nigeria through the kind of mass revolt and popular resistance sweeping […]

We are rascals for progress — Tinubu

Posted by admin General Politics, Raw Politics Saturday, February 26th, 2011

A leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria and former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has promised that the party would replicate the various developmental programmes in Lagos State and other ACN states if voted to power in the April elections. Tinubu made the promise at a rally in Ibadan, the Oyo […]

Governorship poll in six states: INEC at a crossroads over appeal

Posted by admin Latest Politics Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Barely five days after a Federal High Court in Abuja postponed the governorship elections in five states, the Independent National Electoral Commission is yet to decide on whether it would appeal the judgement or not. The commission had, shortly after the judgement, said it was handing it over to its team of lawyers for […]

Pirates now go for Nigeria’s little fish

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The crew of the Mareena 1 fishing trawler had finished hauling in their catch 25 kilometres off the coast and had settled into their bunks for a few hours of sleep when they were awakened by machine-gun fire. Nine heavily armed men in a speedboat were strafing their trawler. One of the bullets hit […]

April polls: INEC rules out electronic register …it’s illegal, says commission

Posted by admin EFCC Politics Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The Independent National Electoral Commission will not use the electronic voter register for the conduct of the April 2011 elections. Investigations by SATURDAY PUNCH in Abuja showed that INEC had already taken the decision to conduct the elections with the manual voter register that was produced from the last voter registration in January and […]