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Gunmen abduct Olu Falae, demand N100 million

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories Monday, September 21st, 2015

Chief Olu Falae | credits: Sunday Aborisade Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, has been kidnapped by gunmen on Monday on his farm at Ilado village in Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. The incident occurred on the day the former presidential candidate of the All Peoples […]

Man stabs, removes 74-year-old father’s heart

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 21st, 2015

The family’s apartment | credits: Olaleye Aluko Residents of Abesan Estate in the Ipaja area of Lagos State have been thrown into confusion after a man, Nelson Oamen, stabbed his father, Ehiremen Oamen, to death during an altercation. PUNCH Metro gathered that Nelson, who reportedly fled his father’s apartment in Block 272, after the incident […]

I regret Mama did not live to witness a new Nigeria -Buhari

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, September 21st, 2015

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, said he regretted that the matriach of the Awolowo dynasty, Chief (Mrs) HID Awolowo,,did not live to witness a new transformation and change the country would be experiencing. He said this through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engineer Babachir David Lawal, who led the FG delegation to the […]

Tobacco: When Will The World Defeat This Menace? – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Sunday, September 20th, 2015

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 20, 2015 – On May 31, 2015, ‘World No Tobacco Day’ (WNTD) was once again marked across the world. The theme for this year’s campaign is: “Stop Illicit Trade Of Tobacco Products.” First observed in 1987 following a motion passed by a cabinet of the World Health Assembly (WHA) which […]

6 Nigerian pilgrims dead in crane crash buried, says envoy

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 20th, 2015

Mecca – Nigeria’s Consul-General to Saudi Arabia Ahmed Umar said on Sunday that the six Nigerian Pilgrims who died in the Sept. 11 crane crash in Mecca had been buried. Briefing newsmen in Jeddah, he said the bodies were buried on Sept. 18, in a “specially designated cemetery’’ in Mecca, where all victims of the […]

Miracles galore at Deeper Life crusades

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion Sunday, September 20th, 2015

By Sam Eyoboka One striking feature of the ongoing Deeper Christian Life Mini-stries’ Lagos City-Wide Crusade in partnership with the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, besides the rain of miraculous feats in all the venues the train had birthed thus far, has been that despite the huge financial outlay in logistical arrange-ments the church has not collect-ed […]

Adeboye counsels first borns to put God first

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 20th, 2015

Thousands of Lagos residents Sunday defied the early morning downpour and thronged the national headquarters of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Throne of Grace Parish, Ebute-Meta, Lagos where the church’s General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye had a special service for first borns in every family, reports OLAYINKA LATONA. Speaking on a theme: “Destined to […]

HID Awolowo dies praying for her children

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 20th, 2015

The matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief (Mrs.) Hannah Dideolu Awolowo, fondly called HID, has passed on, aged 99. Awolowo, wife of the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, died, yesterday, at 3:15 pm, two months to her centenary birthday. She was said to have passed on after she held a meeting with her family members on […]

No arrest warrant for Saraki — Police

Posted by admin Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Sunday, September 20th, 2015

By Kingsley Omonobi & Ikechukwu Nnochiri Amid the controversy generated by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) order for the arrest of Senate President Bukola Saraki, the police said, yesterday, they were yet to receive a bench warrant to effect it. “I am yet to see one”, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. Solomon […]

Extra-Judicial Killings in Abuja, Benin: ASP kills senator’s son

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate Sunday, September 20th, 2015

Force CID arrests officers BY KINGSLEY OMONOBI, ABUJA The Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) of the Nigerian Police force has arrested and detained an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, and six other Police officers over allegations of extra-judicial killings in separate incidents that occurred in Abuja and Benin, the Edo State capital. The first case […]