Facebook: Female corps member in NDLEA’s net over drugs

Those with unknown long distance friends on Facebook may need to be wary as a female corps member is now in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over drug parcel sent by her London-based Facebook friend. The lady had, at the weekend, received a telephone call from her London friend about […]

Nigeria may break unless… -Professor Akinyemi

FORMER Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor Bolaji Akin-yemi, has warned that unless the country is bold enough to appropriate steps to resolve its contending issues in a consensual way, it may break into pieces in a violent way. Speaking as a guest lecturer at a public lecture organised in honour of the Peoples Democratic Party […]

Opinion: Still on Nigeria/South Africa imbroglio

The relations between Nigeria and South Africa over yellow fever vaccination took an alarmingly embarrassing turn recently with both countries deporting the citizens of each other. The ostensible reason for yellow fever vaccination was what both countries needed to unleash the age-long hostilities and rivalry on one another. This is the same South Africa when […]

Sex assault: Nigerian jailed for four years, faces deportation

A Nigerian, who allegedly carried out two sex attacks on women he met in a Cambridge nightclub has been jailed. According to Cambridge First on Monday, Anthony Iyare, 29, attacked a woman in the toilets of the Fez Club in May, a year after sexually assaulting a woman he had met at the same club. […]

Poaching: 34 Fulani herdsmen, 24 hunters, others arrested

NO fewer than 61 people, believed to be itinerant Fulani herdsmen, have been arrested for poaching by the Old Oyo National Park at its Oke-Ogun forest reserves. The park is one of the seven National Parks in the country created in 1991. Addressing newsmen in Oyo town, the conservation officer in charge of the park, […]

Petrol: NNPC, Oando, others to import 4.8b litres

Font size: Executive Secretary of PPPRA, Reginald C. Stanley   The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has shortlisted 42 oil marketing firms to import 4,794,075,000 litres of premium motor spirit (petrol) for the second quarter of this year. In a statement signed by the Executive Secretary of PPPRA, Reginald C. Stanley, the agency said […]

Jos death toll hits 19

•Air Chief Marshal Petinrin Stations shut as Boko Haram kills policeman in Kano Defence chief Petinrin: we’ll device anti-violence strategy Jos was struggling yesterday to regain its rhythm, after Sunday’s bombing of St. Finbarr’s Church. In Kano, Boko Haram, the fundamentalist group believed to be responsible for the suicide bombing in Jos, struck in Kano, […]

Group Urges President Jonathan to Declare an Emergency on Corruption and Profligacy

Campaign for Breakthrough Nigeria, a non-partisan group of Nigerian professionals, has called on President Jonathan to declare an emergency on corruption and profligacy. The letter signed by the group’s Convener, Professor Kevin Iyk Ibeh and his colleagues, notes that these deadly sins pose a real and urgent danger to our nation’s existence, and that “the […]

Jos: Christians retaliate Boko Haram church bombing; kill 11

Boko Haram struck in Plateau and Borno states at the weekend, killing 10 people including two pregnant women, an Islamic cleric and seven members of Saint Fimbarr’s Catholic Church, Rakefield, Jos. Eleven victims lost their lives in reprisal attacks by youths. The attack on the Jos church resulted in a reprisal by angry youths which […]

Editorial from S/African Newspaper: Diplomatic Row-Nigeria in the wrong

Editorial from the Sowetan (South African Newspaper) OUR government has opted for a short-cut diplomatic strategy in its attempt to appease Nigeria. This after 125 citizens from the West African country were refused entry into South Africa. They were deported soon after immigration officials at OR Tambo International Airport queried the validity – or lack […]

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