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Unknown gunmen attack police station in Azare

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, December 4th, 2011

Azare (Bauchi) – Unknown gunmen on Saturday attacked the police station at Azare in Bauci State, destroying the station. Eye-witnesses said the attack was led by heavily armed persons. One of the witnesses said that a loud blast was heard, followed by sporadic shots of gun fire. Officials of the Bauchi State Command of the […]

3 soldiers, 11 others die in separate accidents

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Uncategorized Sunday, December 4th, 2011

By Dayo Johnson and Gabriel Enogholase No fewer than 14 persons including three soldiers were killed in two separate accidents yesterday. The soldiers were trapped and burnt to death in an auto crash at Aiyegunle, Oka-Akoko, near Owo, Ondo State alongside five students of a military school and two others. In the other accident which […]

Digging into the Palimpsest: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Nigerian tradition in literature

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Saturday, December 03, 2011 Chimamanda Photo: Sun News Publishing Juxtaposed with Chinua Achebe’s Aristotle-like praise of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s accomplishment as a historical/war novelist, Joyce Carol Oates’ description of Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun as “a major successor to such twentieth-century classics as Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart” (Half blurb) is significant enough to […]

SSS raids computer village over missing INEC DDC machines

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

Detectives from the State Security Service (SSS) have stormed the famous computer village located at Ikeja area of Lagos over stolen materials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos office of the commission INEC Lagos office declared, shortly after the April general elections, that some materials, such as Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines […]

Jonathan fires sports minister

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Saturday, December 3rd, 2011

President Goodluck Jonathan has relieved the Minister of Sports, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman of his post with immediate effect. This is to afford him the opportunity to focus fully on the pursuit of his declared political ambition. In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, President Jonathan […]

Riot: Provost, registrar sacked in Katsina

Posted by admin Headlines, Katsina, State News Friday, December 2nd, 2011

The Katsina State government has announced the immediate sack of the provost and the registrar of Yusuf Bala Usman College of Legal and General Studies, Daura. The government also announced the dissolution of the Governing Council of the college with immediate effect. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Muntari Ibrahim, stated this in Katsina on Thursday […]

Man arraigned for stealing Obasanjo’s letterhead (When wll OBJ be arraigned for stealing the man’s billions?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07) Friday, December 2nd, 2011

A 36-year-old man, who claimed to be a serving “Major” in the Nigerian Army, Mr Jeremiah Garba, has been arraigned before a High Court sitting in Abeokuta, on Wednesday, for stealing letterhead of former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The accused was brought before Magistrate K.M Peters of Magistrate Court I, Isabo, Abeokuta, for stealing letterhead from the ex-president’s […]

Final year Law student bags 19-yr jail term for kidnapping

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, December 2nd, 2011

A final year Law student of the University of Benin, Chima Anthony Akpalaba, has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for kidnapping a seven-year-old girl. Justice T. C. Makwe of the Delta State High Court handed down the sentence in Asaba. The convict, who had been standing trial since 2009 on a five-count charge of […]

Gov. (Oyo) Ajimobi employs 20,000 youths

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Friday, December 2nd, 2011

In fulfillment of the poverty alleviation programme of his administration, Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State, yesterday inaugurated the state Youth Empowerment Scheme, (YES-O) during which 20,000 youths were offered immediate employment. The governor, while speaking during the inauguration at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium where all the 20,000 youths were gathered, urged them to be […]

Saddam, Gaddafi and the Arabs: An African perspective(2)

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, December 1st, 2011

HE was never perceived as a stooge of any government as he stood charismatically for the defence of his country and the African integrity. His country was a major financier of freedom movements in some African countries like Zimbabwe, Angola and South Africa towards their independence. It was not surprising that one of the grandsons […]