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Military Arrest PDP Loyalist, Raises Fears of Insecurity in Ogoniland

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News Friday, September 23rd, 2016

Ahead of the re-run elections for the state ad national assembly seats in Ogoniland, five persons were Sunday morning arrested in Yeghe Ogoniland, including a strong loyalist of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. John Sorbarikor Gbarazia. Also arrested is the wife of John S. Gbarazia, Mrs Gloria Gbarazia. John Gbarazia is a member of the […]

Governor Ambode & the Michael Jackson Syndrome – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News Friday, September 23rd, 2016

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria |Sept. 23, 2016 | Governor Ambode’s urban renewal policy is fundamentally flawed. For one, it strives to recast a Nigerian city in Parisian or Washingtonian mold. Secondly, it fails to realize that Lagos does not have to look like Paris, New York or Washington DC to be a beautiful, […]

Islamist gunmen attack Kenya police post

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

Islamist gunmen attack Kenya police post Kenya President, Uhuru Keyata Islamist gunmen launched an overnight attack on a police camp in Kenya’s north-east, close to the Somali border, police and militants said Thursday. “Over 50 terrorists attacked the police patrol base in two Land Cruisers but the officers in the camp managed to repulse them amid […]

Lawyer sues Buhari over Kogi ministerial slot

Posted by admin Kogi, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, September 22nd, 2016

A lawyer, Daniel Makolo, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly failing to appoint a minister to represent Kogi in his cabinet. Makolo said his suit – FHC\L\CS\44\2016, filed at the Federal High Court, Lokoja on Thursday – was pursuant to Order 34 Rule (1) and Order 5 Rule (1) of the Federal High Court […]

Picture: Celebrating Nigeria’s Rio Paralympians

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

NIGERIA’S PARALYMPIANS Jide Ojo Congratulations to Team Nigeria’s contingent to the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games for their sterling performance which fetched the country the best performing African nation at the global event. For the umpteenth time, our special athletes wiped our tears, did us proud and burnished the dented image of our dear country. […]

Women Affairs minister, Alhassan, slumps in Adamawa

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, Women Politics Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

-Punch Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter tweet The Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan Umar Muhammed, Yola The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha Jumai Alhassan, on Tuesday slumped at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Alhassan was on a two-day official visit to the […]

Police arrest Turai Yar’Adua’s housekeeper for missing N91m goods

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Turai Yar'Adua Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

The Police Command in Katsina State on Tuesday said it had arrested a 60-year-old housekeeper of Hajiya Turai Yar’adua, the wife of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua over missing goods worth N91m. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the state Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Usman Abdullahi, said this while briefing newsmen on Tuesday in […]

Flood kills 18, destroys 6,637 houses in Jigawa

Posted by admin Headlines, Jigawa, State News Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammadu Abubakar The Jigawa State Emergency Management Agency said flood had killed 18 persons and destroyed 6,637 houses in about 19 local government areas in the state. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the Executive Secretary of SEMA, Alhaji Yusif Sani, said this while briefing newsmen on the activities […]

Picture: Graduate impersonates Bishop Kukah, defrauds Oyedepo, Dantata, others

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 19th, 2016

Jehu Kwasu Adelani Adepegba, Abuja A graduate of Political Science, Jehu Kwasu, has narrated how he impersonated the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah and defrauded prominent Nigerians of millions of naira. Kwasu said his victims included Bishop David Oyedepo of Living Faith Church Worldwide, who he claimed gave him N500,000; the Chairman, […]

Obiano weeps as lorry crushes woman, grandchild

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Monday, September 19th, 2016

Tony Okafor, Awka THE Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, could not control his emotions on Friday night when he witnessed a ghastly lorry accident that crushed a middle-aged woman and her granddaughter. The accident occurred near Chief Eugene Obiagwu Bus-stop, Awka-Etiti, along Nnobi-Ekwulobia road of the state. The 911 articulated lorry crashed into shops in […]