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Suspected ritualists pluck 56-yr-old man’s eyes, teeth

Posted by admin Bauchi, Headlines, State News Monday, February 6th, 2012

From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi Relatives of a 56-year-old man in Bauchi State whose eyes were plucked by suspected ritualists in Bonjiji village have appealed to the inspector general of police to fish out the people who carried out the dastardly act. The victim, Malam Umar Bojinji, who is currently receiving treatment at the Abubakar Tafawa […]

Opinion: Why Igbos are fleeing the north

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Monday, February 6th, 2012

By Dan Onwukwe ( 08023022170 dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com ) Tuesday, February 07, 2012 The scene at many motor parks in Kano in recent weeks has had a distressingly foreboding smell. It typifies what is happening in many other states in the North. In droves, they are leaving. Some have lived in these places for over 30 years. […]

Attack on Agip facility-MEND talks tough as explosion rocks ex-militants’ hotel

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, February 6th, 2012

Sounding tough and unrepentant, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday served notice of bigger attacks on oil installations. MEND had last weekend blew up Agip truck line in Brass, Bayelsa State, resulting in a loss of 4,000 barrels of oil per day even as the Joint Task Force (JIF) said […]

Opinion: Extra-judicial brutality and cover-up conspiracy

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, February 5th, 2012

There seems to be an unwritten conspiracy among the rank and file of the nation’s security agencies that they must never admit to, or apologise for wrongs, crimes or brutalities committed by uniformed law enforcers against civilians. This is the impression one gets every time a case of unlawful killing or brutality is said to […]

Nyako emerges winner in Adamawa guber election

Posted by admin Adamawa, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News Sunday, February 5th, 2012

BY UMAR YUSUF YOLA – Admiral Murtala Nyako of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has been re-elected Governor of Adamawa State in the governorship elections conducted yesterday. Declaring the results in Yola Sunday, the Returning Officer for the election, Professor Mohammed Hamisu Mohammed announced that a total of 685,103 votes out of the 1,843,619 voters […]

Stop senseless killings, Ohaneze tells Northern leaders

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The Anambra State chapter of the Ohaneze Ndigbo has asked traditional and political leaders in the North to stop the senseless killings and destruction of property by the Boko Haram sect. The Chairman of the Anambra State chapter of Ohaneze, Dr. Philip Atamuo, told SUNDAY PUNCH at Adazi Nnukwu, Anambra State on Friday that the […]

Nations Cup Update: Zambia, I’Coast through to AFCON s’finals

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Zambia and Ivory Coast eased into the African Nations Cup semi-finals with 3-0 wins over Sudan and co-hosts Equatorial Guinea respectively on Saturday in the first games of the weekend’s quarter-final clashes. A 15th minute goal from defender Stopilla Sunzu, a second after 66 minutes from captain Chris Katongo and a third four […]

Disturbing Picture: Dead conductor: LASTMA hands over officers to police

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority on Saturday said it had handed over three officers of the agency to the police over the death of a 24-year-old commercial bus conductor, Rasheed Alabi. Alabi was killed in Lagos last Thursday after two officials of LASTMA allegedly pulled him down from his bus to his death. […]

Nigerian varsities fail to make top 1,600 in the world

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world. The University of Benin ranked 1,639th on the global scale, the 18th in Africa and […]

Research: Nigeria Among 5 Most Active Countries on Twitter

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, February 3rd, 2012

By Raheem AkingboluWith 1,646,212, volumes of geo-located Tweets in the last three months of 2011, Nigeria is one of the five most active countries on online interactions in Africa; a research study has revealed. According to ‘How Africa Tweets’, a new research launched in Nairobi recently, the high number of young people Tweeting from mobile […]