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Eleweomo’s loyalists attack Tokyo’s filling station

Posted by admin Oyo, State News Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

At least three workers of Bus-Lakson Filling Station, said to be owned by a factional leader of the state council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a. Tokyo), were reportedly injured during an attack on the filling station by some hoodlums on Sunday evening. The filling station is located in […]

Presidency to spend N1.57m on food daily

Posted by admin Presidency, Top Stories Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Emerging details of this year’s budget proposals indicate that the Presidency has proposed to spend N574m on food in 2011. When this total is spread over the 365 days in 2011, the average amount that the Presidency will spend on food per day is a little over N1.57m. The N574m is N168.7m more than the […]

FG to deploy CCTVs in public places

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

The Federal Government on Monday resolved to introduce security measures in a bid to check the rising incidents of bomb blasts in the country. Among the measures taken at the end of an emergency National Security Council meeting in Abuja was the deployment of closed-circuit televisions in public places or establishments to monitor movements into […]

National Security Council meets, plans war on terrorism

Posted by admin Latest Politics Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday presided over an emergency meeting of the National Security Council convened to address the state of security in the country. The meeting became imperative following recent spate of bomb blasts in the country, including the New Year Eve bombing at the Mammy market opposite the Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja. A source […]

Marwa Asks PDP to Rescind Decision on Adamawa

Posted by admin Adamawa, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Intrigues and manipulation still pervaded the outcome of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ad hoc and national delegates election across the states, as one of the governorship aspirants in Adamawa State, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa has asked the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to rescind its decision to cancel the congress and conduct a fresh one […]

Terrorism, election drag Obama to Nigeria, other African countries

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Top Stories Monday, January 3rd, 2011

President Barack Obama of the United States is expected in Nigeria this year. The president is also billed to visit other African countries. The reason for his visit has been linked to the spate of terrorism across the continent as well as the elections that will be held throughout Africa. Also, the US government officials […]

Student excretes 68 wraps of hard drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, January 3rd, 2011

A final year student of Anambra State University, Igbiaram, has been saved from a possible execution in Malayisa, following his arrest by operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. The suspect (names withheld) was intercepted during routine screening of passengers on Emirate flight to Malayisa, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport with over 68 […]

Abuja bomb blasts: Atiku alerts Nigerians to alleged plot to frame up opponents

Posted by admin Raw Politics Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Former vice president and presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar has alerted Nigerians to President Goodluck Jonathan’s alleged heightening desperation of making his political rivals the scapegoats of the latest bombing incidents in Jos and Abuja. A statement in Abuja by his Campaign Organisation in Abuja yesterday accused the president of […]

INEC rules out registration of more parties

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics Monday, January 3rd, 2011

The Chairman Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has said there will be no registration of more political parties for now. Jega stated this at a News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum on Monday in Abuja, that the commission had received two more applications for registration of parties, but said they came too […]

Dealing with the nightmare we ordered

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Okey Ndibe Monday, January 3rd, 2011

By Okey Ndibe , Tuesday, January 04, 2011 – Innocent residents of Jos, a once quiescent town, and Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, received gruesome gifts within the last week. On Christmas Eve, several bombs exploded in different parts of Jos, leaving in their wake a death toll as high as eighty, an unknown number of the […]