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Monarch learns fate on rape case today

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Monday, May 21st, 2012

An Osogbo High Court will on Monday (today) rule on the rape case against the Alowa of Ilowa, Oba Adebukola Alli, who is facing trial for allegation that he raped a female National Youth Service Corps member. Having heard the submission of the prosecution, Justice Oyejide Falola, will rule on whether or not the monarch […]

Opinion: Taylor’s conviction: Implications and lessons for Africa

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, May 21st, 2012

A watershed for justice and constitutionalism in Africa was marked by the April 26, 2012 verdict of the Sierra Leone Special Court which convicted Charles Taylor for aiding and abetting war crimes. The court, sitting at the Hague, was established in 2002 with the mandate to try those who bear the greatest responsibility for crimes […]

Enugu guber poll: Court decides Chime’s fate today

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Monday, May 21st, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — A Federal High Court in Abuja will today deliver judgement on a suit seeking to sack Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State from office on grounds that he was not validly nominated to contest in the last general election. A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the state, […]

Our problem with Boko Haram – Northern govs

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Governors, Headlines Monday, May 21st, 2012

By Luka Binniyat KADUNA – Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue weekend expressed the frustration of Northern Governors over their inability to halt the violence perpetrated by the Islamic militant group, Boko Haram, saying they have found it difficult to initiate a meeting with the group because it hides its identity and the governors do not […]

Sacked Lagos doctors lobby for reinstatement

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, May 21st, 2012

By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna LAGOS — Indications emerged, weekend, that some of the 788 doctors sacked by the Lagos State government are now lobbying to get reinstated. Investigations by Vanguard revealed that some of the doctors have started responding to the queries they had earlier refused to respond to. They are banking on […]

Ghana prevented Nigerians from selling generator – Ajagu

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, May 21st, 2012

BY PROVIDENCE OBUH Lagos — President of the Academy for Entrepreneurial Studies (AES), Dr. Ausbeth Ajagu, has advocated the need for the Federal Government to stop the importation of generating sets into the country, in a bid to address the epileptic power situation in the country. Ajagu, who spoke weekend, at a press conference, said […]

Borno Govt. releases N100m for purchase of surplus onions

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Sunday, May 20th, 2012

The Borno State Government said on Saturday that it had released N100 million for the purchase of surplus onions produced by farmers in the state. Alhaji Zanna Mustapha, the Deputy Governor of the state dropped the hint in Maiduguri, while inspecting some bags of onions, which had been purchased and kept at the government’s central […]

Pictures: King Mswati III of Swaziland leaving a lavish lifestyle while his people starve

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Photos are beginning to come through from the picket in London to protest that King Mswati III of Swaziland has been invited to take part in the Jubilee celebrations of the UK’s Queen Elizabeth. The King, sub-Saharan Africa’s last absolute monarch, is staying at the Savoy Hotel, where rooms cost about £400 per night. He […]

Picture: Wife of suspected Media house bomber arrested

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Sunday, May 20th, 2012

Hauwa responding to questions from journalists As JTF uncovers sect’s enclave in Jos • Five other suspected bombers’ wives held • Accept negotiation offer, Sambo tells sect A suspected Boko Haram enclave came down in rubbles yesterday in Jos. Its last occupants included Hauwa Mohammed, said to be the widow of the suspected ThisDay suicide […]

Nigeria Still Redeemable –Bishop Badejo •As Fayemi Buries Mum

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Saturday, May 19th, 2012

THE Catholic Bishop of Oyo Diocese, Most Reverend Emmanuel Badejo, on Friday, expressed the hope that Nigeria could still be pulled back from the brinks, if the people were willing to put the fear God in their dealings. Bishop Badejo made the remarks in his homily at the funeral mass for Mrs. Dorcas Aina Fayemi, […]