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Unemployment leads to thriving car marts on Lagos streets

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, June 30th, 2012

Some Lagos residents have resorted to selling used imported cars at every available space to make ends meet, writes ADEMOLA OLONILUA Driving around the city of Lagos recently, one could not help but observe that car marts have sprung up in virtually all parts of the mainland. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations show that most of the […]

Govt culpable in N’Delta pollution—Soyinka

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Wole Soyinka Saturday, June 30th, 2012

June 30, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that oil companies collaborate with corrupt governments in the past to inflict pains of environmental degradation on the Niger Delta people. Soyinka explained that the Niger Delta was systematically poisoned and degraded through […]

How Oshiomhole’s convoy was attacked – Police

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Friday, June 29th, 2012

By SIMON EBEGBULEMJ, Benin THE Edo State Police Command said yesterday that it has commenced investigation into the attack on the convoy of Governor Adams Oshiomhole Thursday night and the burning of the Police post by youths alleged to be students of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Usen. However, the State Government in […]

In picture: Pastor turns mad while praying for a mad man

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 29th, 2012

Scene of the mad man and the pastor, at Oke-Ado, Ibadan, Oyo State, on Thursday. Photo: Seye Adeniyi PEOPLE living at Oke-Ado area of Ibadan, Oyo State, as well as shop owners and automobile dealers along Molete road in the town, on Thursday, watched a drama involving a pastor and a mad man. The […]

Editorial: President Joyce Banda’s bad example for Africa

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 29th, 2012

President Joyce Banda, 62, emerged as Africa’s second female president on April 7th 2012 after her predecessor, Malawian President Bingu Wa Mutharika, died of heart attack. She promised to shake things up and improve relations with aid donor countries. One of the steps she took recently was the decision not to extend invitation to President […]

Dana Air crash: Reps give mgt 7-day ultimatum to pay compensation

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Friday, June 29th, 2012

BY OKEY NDIRIBE & EMMAN OVUAKPORIE ABUJA — THE House of Representatives, yesterday, gave the management of Dana Air to an ultimatum to pay the required compensation to families of its ill-fated aircraft that crashed in Lagos, Sunday, June 3, 2012, killing all 153 pessengers on board. The resolution of the House followed a motion […]

Dana: Only 34 families file claims for insurance

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 29th, 2012

As the 30 days stipulated by law for the beneficiaries of those who lost their lives in the ill-fated Dana Air plane to get the first tranche of payment ($30,000), approaches, the airline said only 34 families out of the 127 that were contacted, have duly completed and submitted their claims’ forms. The Dana aircraft, […]

Nigeria’s life expectancy lowest in West Africa – Don

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 29th, 2012

Gusau – Life expectancy in Nigeria is now 47 years, making it the lowest among west African countries, Prof. Abdulsalam Nasidi, Project Director, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has said. He said this in Gusau on Thursday at the commencement of the second Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of the state’s chapter of […]

After dumping second wife, Pastor Chris Okotie promises to marry third wife in December

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, June 28th, 2012

It’s no longer news that spiritual head of Household of God church and former presidential aspirant of Fresh Party, Pastor Chris Okotie and his pretty wife Stephanie have ended their four year-old fruitless marriage. If the report reaching us is anything to go by, then Rev Chris Okotie has said again that come December, he’s going to […]

Breaking News: U.S. Supreme Court upholds Obama Health Care law in its entirety

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Thursday, June 28th, 2012

In a 5-4 ruling, the high court decided the individual mandate requiring people to have health insurance is valid as a tax, even though it is impermissible under the Constitution’s commerce clause. “In this case, however, it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount […]