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Police recover N3.5m from suspected kidnappers in Osun

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Two weeks after a popular Ife-based petrol dealer, Alhaji Popoola Ogundoyin was kidnapped, detectives from the Osun State Police Command have freed the victim and recovered N3.5m from the suspected kidnappers. Addressing a news conference in Osogbo on Friday, Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Solomon Olusegun, said the family of the victim had given […]

Police intensify surveillance in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Commissioner of Police Lagos State Police Command, Yakubu Alkali File copy The police in Lagos said on Friday that they were intensifying surveillance of identified flashpoints in the state during Christmas and New Year festivities. The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Samuel Jinadu, said this in an interview with […]

Ojukwu personally fought to stop Nigerian soldiers from taking over Uli Airport – Emma Okocha

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Saturday December 24, 2011 •Ojukwu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on this Section Those who have read the book, Blood on the Niger, will certain remember Mr. Emma Okocha, renowned historian and scholar on conflict. He’s also a researcher, who covered events in Burundi, Congo, Somalia, Western Sudan and Dafur. In this interview, Okocha […]

Robbers cart away xmas items in Akure

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Efforts by Akure North local government council area of Ondo State to ameliorate the suffering of some indigenes of the area through its empowerment scheme have suffered a major set back as night marauders burgled the council secretariat and carted away empowerment items running to several millions of naira The items, which were to be […]

No Christmas in Abuja!

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Saturday, December 24th, 2011

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja is turning into a shadow of itself as most residents are leaving the city in droves for the Christmas and New Year celebrations in their respective villages and states. Checks by our correspondent indicate that, despite complains of harsh economic situation in the country, residents have continued to jam […]

Pastor, wife in SSS net over kidnap, murder

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Presiding pastor of I am That I am Church, Minna, Niger State, Evangelist Okechukwu Ifedi, his wife, Juliet and an accomplice, Victor Ibegbu have been arrested by the Niger State command of the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged kidnap, extortion and murder. The three were arrested over allegations of kidnapping and murder of one, […]

Nigerians in Togo prisons cry out

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, December 24th, 2011

Nigerians incarcerated in prisons in Togo, a neighbouring West African country, have called on the Federal Government to come to their aid. According to these Nigerians, majority of whom are in Prison Civile, Lome, Togo, some of them were arrested on trumped-up charges and clamped into jail, where they are subjected to inhuman treatment. The […]

Abdulmutallab demands new lawyer

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Umar AbdulMutallab Nigerian-born terror suspect, Umar AbdulMutallab, has asked for a new lawyer. The student, who is awaiting sentencing by a United States federal court in Michigan for allegedly trying to blow up an American airliner on Christmas Day in 2009, said his current lawyer, Anthony Chambers, deceived him, Detroit Free Press […]

UK council blacklists UNIJOS, UNN, other medical graduates

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Minister of Education, Prof. Rugayyatu Rufa’i The British General Medical Council has barred medical graduates of nine Nigerian universities from practising in the United Kingdom. The GMC, an independent body of regulators which registers medical doctors to practise in the UK, in a directory released on Wednesday, blacklisted medical graduates that […]

Picture: Husband of slain banker, Akolade, arraigned for murder

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Alleged wife killer, Akolade Arowolo (second left), during his appearance at Ikeja High Court in Lagos … on Wednesday. Photo: Goke Famadewa. Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly killed his banker wife, Titilayo, was on Wednesday arraigned for murder at a Lagos High Court in Ikeja. Arowolo is facing one count of murder, […]