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US, UK ban citizens from travelling to the North

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines Thursday, April 5th, 2012

By Uduma Kalu & AbdulSalam Muhammad ABUJA—The United States and the United Kingdom yesterday warned their citizens not to travel to certain parts of the north saying there is a high risk of terrorist attack during the Easter holiday. The UK foreign office and the US embassy in Abuja issued the updated travel warnings yesterday, […]

Robbery attack: Ekene Dili Chukwu apologises to students, parents

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 5th, 2012

By Theodore Opara EKENE Dili Chukwu Transport Company, yesterday, apologised to the parents and students of Holy Rosary College Enugu, over last Saturday’s robbery attack along Oke-Odo end of Shagamu/Benin Expressway, Ijebu Ode. The firm, however, maintained that the students were neither hurt nor sexually molested. The company’s legal adviser, Mr. Frank Obayagbona, while briefing […]

Gunmen kill 9 in Maiduguri •As JTF kills 3 in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Thursday, April 5th, 2012

NO fewer than nine people were said to have been killed at separate locations when gunmen opened fire at the Maiduguri Monday Market at about 2.00 p.m on Wednesday, leaving several injured, eyewitnesses told the Nigerian Tribune in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Nigerian Tribune also gathered that one Tajudeen, a mechanic on the Lagos […]

UNIABUJA closed indefinitely over students’ protest

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Thursday, April 5th, 2012

THE management of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), on Wednesday, closed down the institution indefinitely as a result of protest embarked by students against the suspension of four professional programmes of the university on Tuesday by the Federal Government. Students were given up till 6p.m. on Wednesday by the university’s management to vacate the two […]

Drug trafficking: Osun NDLEA nabs 60-yr-old woman, another

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Thursday, April 5th, 2012

THE Osun State command of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 60-year-old grandmother, Aduke Adebusuyi and Hammed Lateef, 18, for allegedly trafficking cannabis sativa, popularly called Indian hemp. The state commander of the agency, Mrs Anthonia Udu, disclosed this on Wednesday in an interview with journalists in Osogbo. According to […]

Drama as passenger steals N200,000 aboard flight

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 5th, 2012

THERE was a mild drama on an Arik Air flight from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, heading to the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja, on Wednesday, when a passenger (name withheld), stole N200,000 belonging to another passenger on the business class. According to information gathered, the passenger stood up in the aircraft and opened the […]

Luxury bus attack: Parents of allegedly raped girls to sue transporter

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, April 5th, 2012

PARENTS of the students, who were attacked by gunmen and reportedly robbed and raped at the weekend, have concluded arrangements to sue the transport company, Ekenedili Chukwu for “negligence of duty.” The parents also denied that their children were raped but admitted that the armed men sexually harassed them by asking them to strip their […]

Delta Govt gives MTN 7 days to pay N454m debt or …

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

BY FESTUS AHON UGHELLI – DELTA State Government has given seven days ultimatum to the management of MTN Nigeria Communications Limited to pay it accumulated ecology tariff amounting to N454.9 million or be ready to shut down their various masts scattered across the State. Mast State Commissioner for Environment, Mr Frank Omare who handed down […]

Electricity: Canadian firm demands N3.72bn to manage transmission company

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

A Canadian firm, Manitoba Hydro International, has demanded the sum of $23.72m (about N3.72bn) from the Federal Government to run the Transmission Company of Nigeria for three years. Manitoba, whose financial bid for the management of TCN, one of the successor companies of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria, was opened on Tuesday, emerged the […]

IG orders patrol of federal highways

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, on Monday directed the police to start the patrol of all federal highways across the country with immediate effect. The reported raping of 42 female pupils of an Enugu-based school by a 12-man robbery gang along the Ore-Shagamu Expressway, Ogun State on Saturday night and other cases have forced […]