By BOLUWAJI OBAHOPO …parade security guard, 8 other suspected robbers LOKOJA—Kogi State Police Command has paraded seven persons for allegedly posing as bishop, pastors and prophets during a revival programme in Lokoja, capital of Kogi State. Those paraded include Bishop Bamidele Abraham of Eagle Kingdom Church, Lokoja and Pastors Chucks Ingalis Kelvin, Chinedu Okosisi, Samson […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Up to 27 million people are living in slavery around the world, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton estimated Tuesday as the US unveiled its annual report into human trafficking. But the report showed that as governments become more aware of the issue, instigating tough new laws and programs to help victims, […]
KADUNA (AFP) – Residents of Kaduna stayed indoors on Wednesday as a heavy deployment of soldiers and police enforced a ban on movements after three days of religious violence killed at least 61 people. The round-the-clock state-wide curfew was first imposed after three church bombings in the state on Sunday sparked reprisal violence by Christian […]
June 20, 2012 by Ihuoma Chiedozie, Abuja A witness on Tuesday told a Federal High Court in Abuja that the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Mr. Henry Okah, masterminded the October 1, 2010 bomb blast in Abuja because he wanted to register his annoyance with the Federal Government’s rejection […]
June 20, 2012 by Friday Olokor, Abuja A 52-years-old Italian, Mr. Mauro Zanin, was on Tuesday found dead in his detention room at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission headquarters in Abuja two days before his planned arraignment. Spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the incident, saying the Italian was “found motionless in […]
Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Hassan Kukah, has said that Nigeria is “dancing on a wet grave”. Kukah warned that unless something was done urgently, the grave might cave in soon. The cleric, who spoke in Abuja on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Northern Reawakening Forum, also wondered how Nigeria deteriorated to the […]
By Clarius Ugwuoha I am neither Lagosian nor a medical doctor. My views are absolutely disinterested, informed by concern for the plight of the masses caught on the wrong side of the fighting giants. Neither the Lagos State government nor the resident doctors formerly in her employ could be absolved of complicity in the unfolding […]
The Chairman of the Northern States Governors’ Forum, Dr Babangida Aliyu, says the spate of bombings by Boko Haram and other forces are intended to cripple the region’s economy. Aliyu, who is also the Governor of Niger State, said this on Monday in Minna in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Danladi Ndayebo. […]
June 19, 2012 by Nike Popoola | credits: Indications have emerged that the Dana Air plane that crashed in Iju-Ishaga area of Lagos on June 3 and caused the death of all 153 passengers and crew members on board and 10 people on the ground, may not have been properly insured. One of the underwriters […]
Aggrieved families of those who died in the Dana Air disaster of June 3 have perfected plans to sue the company for additional N1billion as compensation aside from the $100,000 each family is to get under the Nigerian Civil Aviation Regulations (NCARs). The fresh suit, according to the lawyer of the victims’ families, Olisa Agbakoba […]
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