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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 […]

Police get own varsity (So they can earn PhDs in bribery?)

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

Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, has been upgraded to a degree awarding institution. This followed an approval given to the institution by the National Universities Commission on Tuesday. Although the institution is meant to serve as a training ground for police cadets, its degree awarding status brings the total number of Nigerian universities to […]

Boko Haram planned to paralyse Kaduna – GOC

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Mechanised Division, Kaduna, Major-General Garba Wahab, on Tuesday revealed that the arrest of 33 members of the terrorist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, prevented the plan to unleash terror on Kaduna State. Garba said the sect had planned to paralyse the state on Monday but that the arrest of the […]

Man docked over alleged withdrawal of N.1m cheque

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, April 2nd, 2012

By BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE IKEJA – A 20-year-old man, Adebowale Olamilekan, who was apprehended while allegedly trying to cash a cheque of N100,000 from the account of one Professor Mordi at Ikeja branch of Skye Bank Plc, has been charged before a Lagos State High Court, Igbosere by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Olamilekan […]

Police confirm 7 dead, 15 injured scooping petrol from crashed truck

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Yola – (NAN) The police in Adamawa have confirmed that seven persons were burnt to dead, while scooping petrol from a tanker involved in an accident at Ganigaku Village, Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa. Police Public Relations Officer Nemuel Yoila told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Yola that 15 others […]

Senegal presidential poll: Some lessons for Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, April 2nd, 2012

“On this day, March 25, 2012, at 9:27 pm., President Abdoulaye Wade, a candidate in the presidential election, called President Macky Sall to congratulate him for having won the election and to wish him good luck in his mission as the head of Senegal in the hope that he will render the Senegalese happy. In […]

Bill Gates gives $12m grant to boost yam production

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Monday, April 2nd, 2012

LAGOS (AFP) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $12-million (nine-million-euro) grant Monday to a project aimed at boosting yam production and doubling the income of west African farmers of the crop. It is the foundation’s largest grant for yam production anywhere in the world, said a spokesman of the International Institute of […]

N37m spent to light Abuja Stadium -NSC

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Despite that the National Stadium, Abuja is still in total darkness, the National Sports Commission (NSC) says it has spent a whopping N37.238 million to restore electricity at the main bowl of the stadium. It would be recalled that the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abuja Electricity District Company, Engineer […]

One killed in Kaduna bomb explosion

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, April 1st, 2012

There was confusion at the Ungwam Muazu, an outskirt of Kaduna State on Sunday as a bomb explosion rocked the area, killing the suspected bomber and leaving two others seriously injured. The injured persons were taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention. An eyewitness said, “I heard a deafening sound on my way from […]