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Picture: Teenager’s leg amputated after police gunshot

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

The family of teenager shot and wounded by a policeman seek justice, writes MUDIAGA AFFE Narrating the incident to our correspondent, the victim’s father, Chief Nta Asuquo, said his son, an SS II pupil of Government Science School, Henshaw Town, Calabar South, was shot by one of the members of a team of anti-robbery policemen […]

S-Court dashes ACN’s bid to sack Governor Akpabio

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Judiciary, State News Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja …dismisses Akpanudoedeghe’s petition The Supreme Court, yesterday, quashed moves by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, to sack Governor Goodswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State through the election petition tribunal. ACN, alongside its candidate during the last governorship election, Senator James John Akpanudoedehe, challenged the decision of the Court of Appeal […]

Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

CAIRO, June 2, 2012 (AFP) – A judge sentenced former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison on Saturday after convicting him of involvement in the murder of protesters during the uprising that ousted him last year. Also given a life term for the killings was 84-year-old former strongman’s interior minister Habib al-Adly, while […]

Kenyan student kills, eats housemate

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

WASHINGTON (AFP) – A 21-year-old student from Kenya was held without bail in the US state of Maryland Saturday after allegedly killing and eating parts of his housemate, CNN television reported. Alexander Kinyua was arrested after being charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault in the alleged cannibalism case, the network said. Harford […]

Striking pilots disrupt Air Nigeria flghts

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Oyetunji Abioye 13 Comments Air Nigeria’s domestic and regional flights were disrupted on Friday as the carrier’s pilots and aircraft engineers embarked on strike. However, the airline’s international flights, especially London operated on schedule. The pilots under the aegis National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers claimed that the decision to […]

Police rescue kidnapped Enugu 6yr-old in Warri

Posted by admin Delta, Enugu, Headlines, State News Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Ozioma Ubabukoh, Enugu 26 Comments The anti-kidnap unit of the Enugu State Police Command has rescued six-year-old Kosi Akilo, who was abducted recently from her parents’ home at River Lane Crescent in GRA, Enugu. SATURDAY PUNCH learnt that the anti-kidnap unit, led by Superintendent Stephen Osaghae rescued Akilo in the early […]

Role of UK banks in Nigeria’s corruption cases

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

As Nigeria celebrates the re-birth of democracy in the country, corruption remains the bane of development in this part of the world. More worrisome is the role played by some institutions in the advanced countries in aiding corruption in the country. Some commercial banks in the United Kingdom have continued to launder millions of pounds […]

UNILAG students, police clash again

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

June 2, 2012 by Motunrayo Aboderin Some protesting students of the University of Lagos and policemen clashed in Lagos on Friday. The students were protesting the Democracy Day’s renaming of UNILAG as the Moshood Abiola University by President Goodluck Jonathan. As the policemen fired teargas to disperse the crowd, the students threw bottles and stones […]

Customers to provide National Identity Number at banks – CBN

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Headlines Friday, June 1st, 2012

By Babajide Komolafe LAGOS —The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, yesterday, imposed fresh condition for owning a bank account saying that from January 8, 2013, the National Identity Number, NIN, would be criteria for owning and operating a bank account in the country. To this effect, from September 1 this year, CBN in conjunction with […]

Provost of UNIZIK medical school kidnapped

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, June 1st, 2012

BY VINCENT UJUMADU, Awka THE Provost of College of Medicine of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nnewi Campus was Friday kidnapped at his home town, Ogidi in Anambra State. The Provost, who is also a Senior Consultant on Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi was abducted while he was returning from […]