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Day all hell broke loose in Kaduna

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Scene of a bomb blast | credits: File copy DAVID ATTAH gives a detailed account of what transpired penultimate Sunday, when Kaduna State became a theatre of war. The time was 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 17, 2012. Madam Victoria Akpojiyovwi, fondly called “Mama” by her grandchildren, would by now be giving praises to the […]

‘Why Nigerian businessmen can’t access funds in US’

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, July 1st, 2012

The Director, Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development, in Indiana University, United States, Professor Bessie House-Soremekun, has given reasons for the inability of Nigerian and African businessmen to access the massive funds lying idle in the business sector in America. House-Soremekun said the dearth of partners that could be trusted by American businessmen had […]

The Pension Scam…How they looted the funds

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, July 1st, 2012

THE Senate, on June 21, adopted the report of its joint committee on establishment and inter-governmental affairs and states and local governments and recommended, among other things, the prosecution of Chairman of Pension Task Force Team, (PTFT), Abdulrasheed Maina, and other members of the team (including Mr. John Yusuf and B. G. Kaigama) for a […]

Int’l Helicopter School takes off

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

N International Helicopter Training School, the first of its kind in the West African sub-region would commence operations next month in Enugu State, says Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Umar Dikko. Dikko spoke at the weekend during a graduation ceremony of students of Administration, Air Police, Music, Physical Education and Regiment at 325 Ground […]

Repairs on Third Mainland Bridge postponed indefinitely

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

THE Federal Government may have indefinitely suspended the proposed repair work earlier scheduled to begin on the Third Mainland Bridge today, thus putting the controversy with the Lagos State officials over the matter to an abrupt but temporary end. Lagos Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Charles Nseobong Akpabio, yesterday disclosed in […]

Kidnapped Students Get Lawmakers’ N1m

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

THE Abia State House of Assembly has presented a N1m cheque to parents of 15 students of Abayi International Secondary School, Aba, who were kidnapped and rescued in 2010. The House also gave approval to relationship between the state government and Fidelity Bank of Nigeria Plc; approved dissolution of the state’s Board of Physical Planning […]

Sharia Judge Dragged Before High Court

Posted by admin Headlines, Jigawa, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

AN Upper Sharia Court Judge has been dragged before a High Court in Dutse for contempt. The Jigawa State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Chairman, Abubakar Hassan Fulata, who filed a motion at High Court 2 in Dutse had prayed the court to try the Kiyawa Upper Sharia Court Alkali (judge), Aliyu Hadejia, for contempt, […]

Mohamed Morsi sworn in as Egypt’s President

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 30th, 2012

CAIRO (AFP) – President Mohamed Morsi took the oath of office on Saturday to become Egypt’s first freely elected leader and its first head of state since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow last year. “I swear by the Almighty God to sincerely preserve the republican order and to respect the constitution and law, and completely care for […]

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 […]