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Boko Haram: Exhibitors Shun Opening of Kaduna Trade Fair

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, April 29th, 2012

FEARS of possible bombing by Boko Haram prompted exhibitors, visitors and residents to stay away from yesterday’s official opening of this year’s Kaduna International Trade Fair, which recorded a low number of participants. This came on the heels of last Thursday’s attack on the SOJ Plaza, Kontagora road housing three national dailies, ThisDay, The Sun and The […]

Rivers: Gunmen kidnap Rev Father…community leader’s wife too

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Friday, April 27th, 2012

A Reverend Father in Onne, Rivers State, Fr. Nwika Gbinu, has been kidnapped by gunmen. The cleric was allegedly abducted recently in the premises of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Onne, in Eleme Local Government Area at about 2.49am. A source told Daily Sun that the kidnappers whisked him away and he had since been in […]

Onitsha robbers meet waterloo in Lagos

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, April 27th, 2012

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a five-man gang of notorious armed robbers, who came from Onitsha, Anambra State, to operate in Lekki and Ajah areas of the state. The suspects are specialists in car-snatching and house burglary. They were said to have gone to Ajah in March 2012 and robbed its residents. They […]

Liberia’s Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes – to serve prison term in Britain

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, April 26th, 2012

LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AFP) – Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor was convicted Thursday of war crimes for arming Sierra Leone’s rebels in return for diamonds in the first verdict against a modern former head of state by a global court. “The trial chamber finds you guilty of aiding and abetting of all these crimes,” presiding judge Richard […]

Gunmen raid Gombe police stations, bank

Posted by admin Gombe, Headlines, State News Thursday, April 26th, 2012

KANO (AFP) – Attackers have carried out assaults on two police stations and a bank in a northern town, but it was unclear if there were casualties, residents and authorities said Thursday. The attackers raided the northeastern town of Bajoga in Gombe state, using guns and bombs, beginning late Wednesday and into early Thursday. Residents […]

Man who allegedly killed lover after romp hangs in police custody

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 26th, 2012

By OLA AJAYI IBADAN – A suspect, Asimiyu Ayantayo, who allegedly beheaded his lover last Thursday, has hanged himself in police custody. He was paraded with his alleged accomplice, Isiaka Akanbi, on Tuesday, in respect of beheading of a middle- aged woman in Ibadan. After allegedly killing his mistress, Sakirat Emiola, he was accused of […]

Police uncovers explosives worth N9m as blast causes panic in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, April 26th, 2012

A bomb blast outside a military base on Wednesday in the city of Kano caused panic but no injuries, while police earlier in the day discovered a large cache of explosive materials. The homemade bomb planted in an open sewer across from Bukavu military barracks caused people to flee and businesses to shut, a military […]

UI shut for 2 weeks

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

THE University of Ibadan (UI) has officially been closed down for two weeks, with the purpose of finding a lasting solution to the power problems facing the institution, as well as curbing the recent students’ unrest, which has halted the academic progression of the institution in the last three days. The statement was made available […]

Man, woman kill spouses over food

Posted by admin Headlines, Katsina, State News Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

A housewife, Hussaina Sani, 35, has alegedly killed her 66-year-old farmer husband, Sani Dan-Mamman, in Mujifa, Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State. Daily Sun learnt that Dan-Mamman had demanded an explanation from his second wife after he was given a meager lunch. According to a source, the man had given his wife two measures […]

Gunmen kill director, 2 others, set bodies ablaze in Plateau

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Even as security men are yet to unravel those behind the murder of a councilor in Barakin-Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, unknown persons have again killed three persons in the same local government and set ablaze their bodies on Monday evening. The local government council, which is still under the state of emergency […]