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Kwara govt moves to ban okada riders

Posted by admin Headlines, Kwara, State News Monday, November 21st, 2011

Kwara State police command is on the move to stop the activities of commercial motor bike business, popularly called okada, in all parts of the state, following the incessant hacking of innocent people with cutlass and planks by men using unregistered okada to commit crime in the state. Speaking with journalists in Ilorin on Monday, the Commissioner […]

‘Nigeria loses N455bn yearly to poor sanitation’

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, November 21st, 2011

UNITED Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) chief, water, sanitation, and hygiene section, Mr Vinod Alkari, has revealed that, Nigeria loses N455 billion annually or 1.3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) due to poor sanitation. Similarly, he added that, 33 million people defecate in the open while only a third of the country’s population […]

7 killed in fresh Fulani attack in Plateau

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Monday, November 21st, 2011

NO fewer than seven people were killed in renewed hostilities between the Berom and Fulani in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday, while 20 others sustained injuries. Nigerian Tribune learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday, when some Fulani herdsmen on revenge mission for their cattle […]

Picture: Ex-athlete, Monye, arrested for murder in S/Africa

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, November 21st, 2011

Monday, November 21, 2011 Ambrose Monye Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section A Nigerian former athlete, Ambrose Monye, 35, is in South Africa’s police custody over an alleged assassination of a South African woman, Chanelle Henning, Tuesday last week in Faerie Glen. Ambrose Monye, 35, who was recently acquitted of murder, is […]

Balarabe Musa, Makarfi, ACF, others mourn

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, November 21st, 2011

SHOCK and disbelief rent the air in the North, following the news of the death of The Guardian Newspapers Publisher, Mr. Alex Ibru, who passed on yesterday. Among the many sympathisers were the former Governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Special Senior Assistant to […]

Robbers seize 70-yr-old man

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, November 20th, 2011

By Albert Akpor Just as residents Imo State, South-East Nigeria are still basking in the euphoria of low crime rate occasioned by the proactive and zero-tolerance for crime measures put in place by the administration of Owelle Rochas Okorocha, a gang of armed robbers, Thursday night, struck at the residence of Elder Vincent Dike in […]

268 die on Lagos-Benin road – FRSC

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, November 20th, 2011

By Simon Ebegbulem, Benin City THE Zonal Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr. Yakubu Attah, yesterday, raised the alarm over the spate of road accidents around the Ovia River, along the Benin-Lagos express road in Ovia North East Local Government Council of Edo State, just as he disclosed that no less than […]

National Awards Govt unfair to Enyimba, Anyansi – Odegbami

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, November 20th, 2011

By JOE APU Sunday, November 20, 2011 Anyansi Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The National Merit Award was held in Abuja last Monday amid pump and ceremony. In fact, it was a roll call of who is who in the country. The awardees beaming with smiles on that day, came out […]

Picture: Bandits invade Kogi, kill 2 policemen

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Sunday, November 20th, 2011

From EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, Lokoja Sunday, November 20, 2011 • The Divisional Police Station, Kabba, Kogi State, attacked by bandits • Photo: Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Pandemonium broke out in Kabba, the headquarters of Kabba Bunu local government of Kogi State when 10 armed men invaded the town and bombed the divisional police […]

Britain introduced rigging in Nigeria –Onukaogu, Anambra REC

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, INEC Politics, State News Sunday, November 20th, 2011

By ALOYSIUS ATTAH Sunday, November 20, 2011 •Onukaogu • Photo: Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, a Professor of English and Literary studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife is also a Pastor in the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) Worldwide. As the Anambra State Resident Electoral Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission […]