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Police, doctor warn lovers

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 12th, 2012

By CHIOMA IGBOKWE Thursday, April 12, 2012 • Dr. Enabulele Photo: Sun News Publishing Major cities in the country, especially, Lagos, are replete with reported cases of lovers who went to the hotels or guest houses to catch fun, only for one or both to die while having sex. Sometimes, such deaths are attributed to […]

Battle of Dubai: Eagles vow to demolish Pharaohs (Demolish them first)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The Super Eagles’ camp in Dubai, came alive when national team boss, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, breezed in from the United States as the players vowed to go all out and destroy the might of Pharaohs of Egypt in today’s friendly duel in […]

Ohanaeze warns Uwazuruike over comment on 2015 presidency

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Thursday, April 12th, 2012

The Pan Igbo Cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has warned the leader of Movement for Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafran (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike to stop making utterances detrimental to the cause of Ndigbo. Addressing journalists in Oraifite Ekwusigo Local Government Area of Anambra State, the Director of Publicity, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in the Diaspora, […]

7 boys gang-rape girl, 15, in Rivers

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

A 15-year-old girl is lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt after she was allegedly gang-raped. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Rumuodumaya in Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of Rivers State. Already, no fewer than seven boys said to be in their early 20s have been rounded up by the Police […]

Four burnt to death in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway accident

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

April 12, 2012 by Kunle Falayi Three adults and a child were burnt to death on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday after a bus lost control and burst into flames. According to eyewitnesses, the two front tyres of the Mazda bus burst and the driver lost control and hit a culvert between the AP filling […]

Ademola’s death: IPO claims 200 youths attacked policemen

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Thursday, April 12th, 2012

April 12, 2012 by Kunle Falayi The police officer investigating the murder of Abiodun Ademola, the 26-year-old youth, allegedly shot by the Divisional Police Officer of Pen Cinema during the fuel subsidy removal protests in Lagos, has said about 200 youths hurled stones and bottles at the police team on the day of the incident. […]

ECOWAS ministers meet on Mali, Guinea Bissau

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Ministers of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council are to meet in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire today – in attempt to end the political crisis in Mali and Guinea Bissau. The sub-regional body said in a statement on Wednesday that the meeting would review various proposals for resolving the political crises in both countries. Members of […]

Gunmen kill Kaduna SSS pupil in mother’s presence

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Unknown gunmen in Kaduna on Wednesday killed a final year pupil of Imam Secondary School, Adamu Mohammed, at the Rigasa area of the state. It was learnt that Mohammed, a member of his school’s Man O War Club, was mistakenly killed as his killers suspected he was out to attack them. The deceased’s elder, Alhaji […]

TB Joshua and President Mutharika

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 12th, 2012

TB Joshua and President MutharikaApril 12, 2012 by Abimbola Adelakun As a caveat, I must admit I have a certain aversion to prophets and prophecies. And I did a piece, ‘Nigerian Nostradamuses’, on this some years back. To me prophets must be sadists of sorts. The Biblical narrative of Jonah, written by, I believe, an […]

Airlines to pay for cancelled flights, lost baggage

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Foreign and local airlines will in 30 days time begin to pay heavy fines and compensations for flights delays, cancellations, lost baggage and other related anomalies under a new set of rules introduced on Wednesday by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The new rules titled, “Passengers’ Rights Regulations,” were introduced in Lagos at a stakeholders’ […]