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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, […]

Ibru’s wife loses bid to wind up Federal Palace

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Font size: Mrs. Ibru Mrs. Maiden Ibru, widow of the late publisher of The Guardian newspaper, Alex Ibru, on Friday lost in her bid to wind up Tourist Company of Nigeria Plc, owners of the prestigious Federal Palace Hotel. A Federal High Court in Lagos threw away a suit she filed to that effect. Mrs. […]

Liberian morticians held over missing corpse in Onitsha

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Anambra, Headlines, State News Saturday, May 19th, 2012

There was palpable tension on Friday in the commercial city of Onitsha over the disappearance of the corpse of a 42-year old woman, Eunice Azala, from a mortuary, one month after it was deposited. Two Liberian morticians attached to the Bex hospital Awada, where the incident took place have been arrested by policemen attached to […]