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20 burnt to death, 5 injured in Ife-Akure road crash

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

No fewer than 20 people were burnt to death in a road accident that occurred yesterday, when two 18-seater buses collided and caught fire at Iwaraja-Ijesha junction along Akure-Ife Road in Osun State. According to an eyewitness, an 18-seater bus, which was heading probably for Ekiti State or Iwaraja swerved from its lane to avoid […]

Shoot treasury looters – Oyebola

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Chief Areoye Oyebola has called on the Federal Government to take more drastic actions against corrupt persons to save the country from impending peril. Oyebola, a writer and journalist of great repute, and founder of the Movement for Nigeria’s Total Transformation, made the call during the launch of his latest book, entitled: Great Issues Nigeria […]

NFF may take Rwanda tie outside Abuja

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

The possibility of the magnificent Abuja National Stadium hosting any match or event now depends on the prompt intervention of the Federal Government to provide fund to procure the needed multi millions Naira electricity cable supplying power to the stadium vandalised by cable thieves in November last year. The Director General National Sports Commission (NSC), […]

How Odumegwu-Ojukwu united Nigerians, by Okonjo-Iweala

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines, Women Politics Monday, March 5th, 2012

FOR the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the death of former Biafran leader Dim Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu has united the whole country . She told The Guardian shortly after the internment of Odumegwu-Ojukwu at the weekend at Umudim community in Nnewi, Anambra State that the Ikemba Nnewi was a man who in death united the whole […]

Tribute to Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu – By Femi Fani Kayode

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Sunday, March 4th, 2012

By Femi Fani-Kayode A great and proud warrior. A true son of Africa. The strength and pride of the Igbo race. Tell it not in the north, the south, the east or the west….for how are the mighty fallen. You stood firm and fought hard for your people when it mattered the most. Nothing else […]

S-Africa denies entry to Nigerian passengers, cite invalid document

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Johannesburg – Many Nigerians aboard Arik Air and South Africa Airways flights were refused entry to South Africa on Friday. The passengers were denied entry by the South Africa Port Health authority and the immigration service on the ground that they had invalid yellow fever vaccination cards. One of the passengers, Olaminde Olaofe, said that […]

Mass Retirement Looms in Police

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

THERE is an uneasy calm in the Nigeria Police as a result of speculations of a mass retirement, following the recent promotion of some officers above their senior colleagues. Sources revealed to Saturday Tribune that some Commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) over Senior Assistant Inspectors General of […]

Expect Surprise in Abuja – Rwanda Coach (Even Rwanda can now insult us – kai)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

RWANDA coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic is already playing mind games ahead of June 17 return leg of 2013 Africa Nations Cup against Nigeria in Abuja, saying that though the Super Eagles are the favourites, yet he has a record of never losing on Nigerian soil. Nigeria and Rwanda played a scoreless draw in Kigali on […]

88-year-old man attacked in Ibarapa

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

Following protest that occurred on Wednesday at Idere in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State over nomination into some political offices, an 88-year-old man, Chief Silas Okunlola Lasunsi, is now lying critical ill at an Igboora hospital, having been attacked by some hoodlums. Factions of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have, for […]

Court Orders NDLEA to Pay Baba Suwe Within 21 Days

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Friday, ordered the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to pay the N25 million judgment fee awarded against it to popular actor and comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, within 21 days. Justice Yetunde Idowu, who gave the order in granting a conditional stay of execution to […]