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Tanker fire deaths in Rivers rises to 200

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

July 13, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike and Mike Odiegwu “Tanker exploded. The explosion sounded like an earthquake. Many of them could not come out alive,” a panic-stricken survivor of a petrol tanker fire that killed over 200 at the outskirts of Okogbe community, Rivers State, on Thursday narrated to The PUNCH. The survivor, whose car […]

Picture: TV presenter abducted in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

July 13, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu A popular television presenter, Alhaji Razaq Gawat, has been abducted in Lagos, PUNCH Metro learnt on Thursday. Gawat, who is the anchorman of an Islamic TV programme during, E didè e ji sari, which is broadcast on Nigerian Television Authority Channel 10, was reportedly abducted around Apongbon end of […]

Yobo sad over Fenerbahce treatment

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, July 13th, 2012

Nigeria skipper Joseph Yobo is sad over his treatment by Fenerbahce . Yobo has spent the last two seasons on loan in Turkey. With the Turkish vice-champions due to start pre-season training next week, the defender wants to know his fate. Negotiations are ongoing between the management of Everton and the Yellow Canaries on a […]

Jonathan’s wife appointment as perm sec shocking – NBA

Posted by admin Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News Friday, July 13th, 2012

July 13, 2012 by Success Nwogu and Mike Odiegwu Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin branch, Mr. Rafiu Balogun, and leader of Committee of Muslim Organisations, Kwara State, Prof. Shehu Jimoh, on Thursday in Ilorin, described the appointment of the wife of the President, Dame Patience Jonathan as one of the 17 new Permanent Secretaries in […]

Controversy trails Patience Jonathan’s appointment as Perm Sec

Posted by admin Bayelsa, First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, State News Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Samuel Oyadongha & Dapo Akinrefon LAGOS—Reactions have continued to trail the appointment of the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, as a Permanent Secretary in Bayelsa State Civil Service. While Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, described the appointment as sycophancy carried too far, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, argued that with […]

IAAF investigates Spanish visa denial row for Nigerian athletes

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By Ben Efe, Barcelona World athletics governing body IAAF has asked the Athletics Federation of Nigerian to write a report of what transpired between the Nigerian team to the World Junior Championships and the Spanish Embassy in Lagos. The Nigerian juniors arrived two days into the championships here in Barcelona. This was after the Spanish […]

7 wounded, 70 houses destroyed in communual clash

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA—SEVEN persons sustained various degrees of injuries, through gun shots and 70 buildings at various stages of construction were destroyed, when youths suspected to be from Ogidi in Anambra State, invaded a disputed land between the community and Nkpor both in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. Most of the […]

Police rescue accountant from irate teachers over alleged N2m theft

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By Godwin Oghre Sapele—The timely intervention of the Divisional Police Officer of Sapele Area Police Command, Delta State, Mr. Kenneth Akubue, and his men, saved a middle-aged man, an Assistant Accountant in Sapele Local Government Education Authority, Mr. Austine Erhurhu, yesterday, from being lynched by over 200 irate primary school teachers of the council. The […]

Students on rampage, wound 4 LASTMA officials, abduct one

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By OLASUNKANMI AKONI, EVELYN USMAN & MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO LAGOS—Pandemonium broke out yesterday at Ojuelegba, Surulere area of Lagos State when students allegedly from Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, took to major highways and went after officials of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority, LASTMA, wounding at least four and abducting one in the process. The […]

Alleged witchcraft: Woman, 70, lynched over step-son’s ordeal

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 12th, 2012

By GBENGA ARIYIBI … How she was tortured in Ekiti palace, by daughter ADO-EKITI—A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Rebecca Adewumi, was, yesterday, lynched by a mob in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State, over alleged witchcraft, even as the deceased family petitioned the police, asking for justice. Narrating the ordeal her mother passed through to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, the first […]