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Igbo has best appointment under Buhari – Keyamo

Posted by admin Latest Politics Monday, September 7th, 2015

In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU, human rights lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, speaks about President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments You are from the South-South. Why have you come out to defend President Muhammadu Buhari’s appointments which are largely in favour of the North? I am not a tribalist. If I was, I wouldn’t have campaigned for […]

2 cable vandals electrocuted in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Sunday, September 6th, 2015

ENUGU—Two persons, who specialized in vandalizing installations of Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, were electrocuted, weekend, while attempting to remove the power distribution property. Meanwhile, a young man of about 25 years of age is currently hospitalized in Anambra State for burns to his body while attempting to vandalize EEDC’s 2.5 MVA transformer, which serves […]

FG repatriates 260 Togolese immigrants

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 6th, 2015

By Monsur Olowoopejo The Federal Government has repatriated 260 Togolese immigrants, barely three months after they applied for asylum in Nigeria. The Federal Government through the Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS repatriated the Togolese immigrants last Saturday, ending their three months stay in Nigeria after arriving on foot through Seme border. An official of the Lagos […]

Oliseh begs Nigerians (Already?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, September 6th, 2015

Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh has described the 0-0 draw against Tanzania as satisfactory considering it was his first game in charge of the Eagles. Oliseh seemed relieved that his debut as coach had now come and gone, and called on fans and the media to rally behind the team in their subsequent matches promising […]

How America, West frustrated Jonathan’s anti-Boko Haram war

Posted by admin American Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, September 6th, 2015

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief As President Muhammadu Buhari inquires into the Boko Haram war expenditures under the last administration, it has emerged that Nigeria’s traditional allies in the West deliberately frustrated former President Goodluck Jonathan’s efforts towards ending terrorists’ activities in the country. US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with President Goodluck […]

Igbo activist sues Buhari over Ali’s appointment as Customs CG

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 6th, 2015

An Enugu-based activist, Ifeanyichukwu Okonkwo has filed a suit at the Federal High Court Umuahia, Abia state challenging the constitutionality of the appointment of Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (rtd) as the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service by President Muhammadu Buhari. However, Okonkwo’s suit is coming few days after Marcel Dim-Udebuani, a lawyer who hails from […]

Pictures: How Nigerian conmen lived large in London

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 5th, 2015

Nwaofor advertisement TOP HEADLINES Two London-based Nigerian conmen, Godwin Nwaofor andFrank Onyechonam involved in defrauding mainly American pensioners, informing them they had won the Australian Lottery, through bogus letters, have met their waterloo. Daily Mail reports that Nwaofor who had cheated pensioners out of £5m life savings had […]

Picture: European migrant crisis: Asylum seekers in Hungary struggle with police after being pulled off train

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

European migrant crisis: Asylum seekers in Hungary struggle with police after being pulled off train 0 By Our Reporter on September 3, 2015 Breaking News, Trending Asylum seekers have thrown themselves onto train tracks and fled from police trying to take them to a reception centre in Hungary, as authorities sought to end a standoff […]

Behold, Adeleke University, in Osun State, where owner bankrolls students

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

From YINKA FABOWALE, Ibadan “Weird” is probably not the word to describe it. But Adeleke University, a private higher institution in Ede, Osun State, is certainly unusual in more than one respect. Apart from its strange description as a faith-based, even though it was established and is being solely financed by accomplished but silent […]

Okagbare opts out of All Africa Games

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Thursday, September 3rd, 2015

Her absence won’t affect us in Congo, says AFN THOSE hoping to see African and Commonwealth track queen, Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor, return to action after fumbling at the just concluded IAAF World Championship in Beijing, China, may have to wait a bit longer. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) confirmed yesterday that Okagbare would […]