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OPINION: Let’s fight corruption, the Chinese way

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

The only way to curb corruption in Nigeria is to fight it the Chinese way. In this case, anyone found guilty of stealing public funds should be made to face capital punishment. Despite the shortcomings of the Obasanjo administration, the establishment of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Due Process Office and strengthening […]

Banker jailed for 10 years over N9.2m fraud

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja has sentenced a former employee of United Bank for Africa Plc, Romeo Omenogor, to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding the bank of N9.2m. Justice Joseph Oyewole, in his judgment delivered on Wednesday, also ordered 38-year-old Omenogor to pay the bank the sum of N6.6m as restitution. The Economic and […]

Eagles beat Lone Star 2-0 in Monrovia

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, February 16th, 2012

The Super Eagles continued their impressive preparation for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Rwanda when they thrashed the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Monrovia on Wednesday. A brace from Sunday Mbah ensured the Eagles, made up of players from the domestic league, recorded their third victory in four friendly games […]

Picture: Air force general dies in Kaduna

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Kaduna, State News Thursday, February 16th, 2012

February 16, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Kaduna The Air Officer Commanding, Nigerian Air Force Training Command, Kaduna, Air Vice Marshall Ibrahim Salihu, is dead. The air force general died on Thursday morning as arrangements were being made to fly him to Bahrain for medical treatment for an undisclosed ailment. The Public Relations Officer, NAF Training […]

CAF League: Dolphins Pick Liberation Stadium

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Dolphins FC SUPERSPORT.COM Nigeria champions, Dolphins will play their 2012 CAF Champions’ League matches at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium. The venue for the club’s home games in this year’s edition of Africa’s elite club competition had been shrouded in mystery following reports that the brand new ultra modern Adokiye Amiesimaka Sports Complex was at […]

Houston’s Funeral to Be Broadcast on Internet

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Whitney Houston SKYNEWS Whitney Houston’s fans will be able to watch her private funeral on the internet after her family agreed to allow a camera into the small church service in Newark, New Jersey. Some fans expressed disappointment after it was announced that just 300 relatives and friends would able to attend the private funeral […]

Tinubu Returns

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, returned to Nigeria Wednesday aboard a chartered private jet that landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos about 9.00 pm and declared he was hale […]

Lamentations, posers from family of shot Kaduna official

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Thursday, February 16th, 2012

THREE days after their breadwinner, Pastor Isua Kiforo, was shot at the Kaduna State Government House by security operatives, who took him for a suicide bomber, life has become miserable for the family. His wife, Charity, who spoke yesterday on the incident and the plight of the family since the incident occurred, raised a […]

272 inmates die in Honduras’ prison fire

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

IN what is termed the deadliest fire in years in the country’s overcrowded prison system, about 272 inmates were killed and dozens injured when a fire tore through a prison in Honduras, officials in the Central American country said yesterday. “We are pulling out bodies… The situation is serious. Most (inmates) have suffocated,” Agence France […]

Govt shakes up the Army, redeploys 72 Generals

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Thursday, February 16th, 2012

A MAJOR shake up has been carried out in the military by the Federal Government. In the exercise announced by the government yesterday, 72 top Army officers were affected. The redeployment of the senior officers, which was described by sources in government as “routine”, is however believed to be part of the efforts to strengthen […]