| Print | E-mail Written by Dipo Ogunsola Saturday, 02 June 2012 Share Yakubu NIGERIAN international, Yakubu Aiyegbeni is wanted by two leading Chinese clubs, Guan Beijing and Shanghai Shenhua on a £5million-a-year (about N1.25b) contract. Yakubu, who scored 18 goals in the recently concluded English Premier League (EPL) has expressed his feelings that he […]
THE 788 doctors, who were recalled by the Lagos State government on Thursday, have declared that they will not resume duties until the state government withdraws the dismissal letter handed to them and sends letters of recall or reinstatement to all doctors, who were issued separate and individual letters of dismissal, saying their purported recall […]
The wedding ceremony of late social critic and educationist, Dr. Tai Solarin with Mrs Sheila Solarin, who turned 88, on Thursday, lasted for just seven minutes in 1951 in Manchester, United King-dom, a close confidant of the family, Dr. Wale Omole, has disclosed. Omole, who is widely described as one of the philosophical sons of […]
Democracy Day in Nasarawa State turned into a day of lamentation for the state governor, Alhaji Umaru Tanko Al’Makura, who expressed frustration over payment of N17 billion Paris Club loan his government never took. The governor said since he took over power a year ago, he has been battling with triple tragedy of having to […]
Talented actress and former Miss Funke Akindele has now officially become Mrs. Khadijat Olufunke Oloyede, thanks to her recent marriage to Kehinde Oloyede in Lagos on May 24. But some of her fans are unhappy that the resulting reception, which also took place two days later, was restricted to only members of her family and […]
June 2, 2012 by Comfort Oseghale 5 Comments At noon on May 25, 2012, Araromi Street in the Somolu area of Lagos was already deserted. Broken bottles littered the front of house N0. 23, the venue of a child naming ceremony that took place the previous night and the scene of the cold-blooded murder of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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