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Dana didn’t heed my warning – Akpabio

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

AKWA Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio on Sunday said he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3. The governor regretted that his warning was not heeded. Akpabio told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, that he intimated the […]

Oyo sacks 3,000 workers for forgery

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

June 11, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade, Ibadan Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi | credits: Oyo State Government said on Sunday that it had sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification among other offences. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said the workers were sacked to […]

Bomber, gunmen kill 12 in Jos, Biu churches

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Plateau, State News Monday, June 11th, 2012

June 11, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam and Adelani Adepegba large crowd gathered at the rubble of Lord’s Chosen Church in Jos on Sunday. | credits: No fewer than 12 persons were killed in separate attacks on churches in Jos, Plateau State and in Biu, Borno State, on Sunday. The Christ’s Chosen Church of God building […]

Crash: Victims’ families reject ‘joint burial’

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 11th, 2012

Families of victims of last Sunday’s Dana flight 992 crash have rejected a Lagos State proposal to give the victims a joint burial. The state had reportedly said that if the families agreed to a joint burial in a dedicated cemetery, the families would be allowed to exhume the corpses if they wished to identify […]

Fresh threat of violence as ex-militants demand N3bn

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, June 11th, 2012

Fresh violence may erupt in the crisis-prone Niger Delta following threats from ex-militants to return to the creeks and resume hostilities in about two weeks. The ex-militants are demanding a total of N3bn compensation from the Federal Government for the killing one of their leaders, John Togo, and allegedly destroying two coastal communities in Delta […]

World Cup Qualifier: Eagles disappoint fans, fail to claim maximum points against Malawi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, June 9th, 2012

Malawi celebrate late goal against the Super Eagles Nigeria’s stuttering start to their World Cup qualifying campaign continued on Saturday as they were held to a 1-1 draw away by Malawi in their African zone Group F tie in Blantyre. The result follows a narrow, and late, triumph in their opening qualifier over lowly Namibia […]

Super Eagles Star, Christian Obodo, kidnapped

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, June 9th, 2012

Nigeria midfielder Christian Obodo has been abducted in the Effurun suburb of Warri in Delta State. Obodo, who was driving alone in his car with a customized number plate, was abducted soon after visiting an in-law on Saturday morning. A family member told KickOffNigeria.com that the player’s car was left behind and no ransom demand […]

Indian owners of Dana Air flee Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, June 8th, 2012

As Dana Air’s woes continue to mount over its plane that crashed on Sunday in Lagos, its senior managers of Indian nationality have reportedly fled the country as Nigerian aviation officials investigate the cause of the crash. LEADERSHIP gathered that the managers hurriedly fled because of the anger the death of more than 200 people […]

Opinion: How to make Nigeria a bribery-free society

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Friday, June 8th, 2012

Bribery is an all pervasive phenomenon; and most people in the country engage in it one way or another on a regular basis. It is the linchpin of all financial crimes, yet it is a highly elusive concept, so much that countries around the world have struggled to pin it down with any degree of […]

Alleged N2bn fraud: Court admits Sylva to bail on liberal terms

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Friday, June 8th, 2012

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, admitted the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, to bail in the sum of N100million with one surety in like sum. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had slammed on him a six-count criminal charge bordering on corruption and money laundering, an offence contrary […]