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Explosion at Suspected Bomb Factory Kills Three

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

A SUSPECTED Boko Haram factory house located in Kaleri and London Chiki area of Maiduguri metropolis in Borno State exploded around 10.30am yesterday, killing three persons said to be in the place at the time of the incident. The blast was heard about three kilometres radius. Other bomb-making materials recovered by the Joint Task Force […]

Bayelsa Killing: JTF Declares Officer, Three Others Missing

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

…MEND Claims Responsibility For Thursday’s Killings THe Joint Military Task Force (JTF), code named Operation Pulo Shield, has declared missing the Commander of the Brass Unit of its command and three others shot by suspected oil bunkers along the Brass-Ogbia waterways of Bayelsa State. JTF Media Coordinator, Lt. Col. Timothy Anthinga, confirmed to The Guardian […]

Security, Crowd Control, Others Pose Challenges at Ojukwu’s Burial

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

SINCE Thursday evening when the remains of Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was brought into his Umudim, Nnewi country home, crowd control became a major issue as almost everybody in Anambra State wanted to a glance former Igbo leader before his committal to mother earth. However, from Nnokwa, which is a neighbouring community to […]

Promotions in police beget rising discontent

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

A storm is gathering over the recent promotions of a few senior police officers in the country, writes ADEOLA BALOGUN Consequent upon the promotion of some of its senior officers to the ranks of Assistant Inspector-General and Deputy Inspector-General last month, a cloud of uncertainty appears to overhang the Nigeria Police Force. As […]

10 die in Lagos road accident, others wounded

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, March 3rd, 2012

About 10 people died on Friday at the Otedola Estate on the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway when five vehicles, including a trailer, ran into some oil pipes, which were lying carelessly on the road. The oil pipelines, which were four in number, fell off another trailer on Thursday night at about 9 pm. The trailer […]

Cannibalism: S-Court frees accused 15 yrs after

Posted by admin Headlines, Judiciary Thursday, March 1st, 2012

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—Fifteen years after he was sentenced to death by hanging, the Supreme Court, Thursday, discharged Mr. Edet Mbang, accused of eating the flesh of one Baba Okoi who was murdered on October 7, 1989. Mbang and his three alleged accomplices, Obeten Essien, Mbang Mbang and Fidelis Obeten, were said to belong to […]

Osaze booed as Rwanda holds Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, March 1st, 2012

NIGERIA’S striker, Osaze Odemwingie was singled out for jeers after he failed to impress in Nigeria’s goalless draw against Rwanda in a 2013 Africa Nations Cup qualifier decided yesterday in Kigali. Odemwingie had come to the match on the strength of five goals in two matches for his English Premier League side, West Bromwich Albion […]

Kigali pitch robbed us of victory — Etuhu

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Dickson Etuhu NIGERIAN midfielder, Dickson Etuhu was scathing in his assessment of the Kigali pitch after the 0-0 draw against Rwanda on Wednesday. The artificial pitch of the Stade Regional de Kigali was roundly blamed, as the uneven surface did not allow for quality passing. “What a bad pitch,” Etuhu wrote. He also added […]

Pastor Adeboye clocks 70 •Jonathan greets RCCG G.O.

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, March 1st, 2012

THE General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, clocks 70 years old today, with the occasion coinciding with the March Special National Holy Ghost Service of the church. Fondly known as G.O or Daddy G.O, easy-going Pastor Adeboye, who was born into a poverty-stricken family from Ifewara in […]

Ojukwu for burial today, as Jonathan, Rawlings, Soyinka, others pay tributes

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, March 1st, 2012

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, former Ghanaian president, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, Professor Wole Soyinka, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, past and serving governors and others bade farewell to ex-Biafran leader, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, even as former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, was not physically present. The remains of the Igbo hero moved from Enugu to […]