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One-month old baby receives salary in Zamfara

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Zamfara Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

KANO (AFP) – A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs country. The name of the infant was recently found on the payment voucher of a local government council in northern Nigeria during an exercise to fish out […]

JTF recovers 1,000 firearms in Maiduguri arms mop-up

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, State News Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

KANO (AFP) – Soldiers from a special military unit deployed to end the violence in the city of Maiduguri on Tuesday launched a house-to-house search for weapons following an October 31 deadline for residents to turn in weapons. A military unit’s spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, said they have recovered at least 1,000 firearms in […]

Siasia drags NFF to court

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

BY OKEY NDIRIBE Sacked Super Eagles Coach Sampson Siasia has dragged the Board of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) to an Abuja High Court for breaching the terms of his employment contract. Speaking to journalists in Abuja during a telephone interview yesterday, Siasia gave reasons why he sued the NFF adding that the board breached […]

Igbo to celebrate Ojukwu’s birthday in grand style

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

All roads lead to Enugu tomorrow for the 78th birthday celebration, prayer for quick recovery of an Igbo icon, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and God’s protection of Ndigbo where an inter-denominational church service would be conducted by the Catholic bishop of Onitsha Diocese. Those expected to attend the occasion include senators, traditional rulers, politicians and […]

Kano now generates one billion naira monthly

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

The Chairman of the Kano State Board of Internal Revenue, Alhaji Habu Mohammed Fegge is not one man to be envied, going by the huge challenges of revenue generation before the Kano State government. But in this interview session, the man who is saddled with the task of changing the face of revenue generation in […]

Banana hawker rescued from ritualist’s deep freezer

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

A rice dealer at Marian market and Etim Edem market, Mr. Kenneth Ubah, has been nabbed by the police for allegedly locking up a 13-year old banana hawker in a disused deep freezer in Chief Obot Close State Housing Estate Calabar. Daily Sun investigations revealed that luck ran out on the trader when the brother […]

Keshi signs Eagles’ 2-yr deal ordered to take Eagles to Brazil 2014

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Nigeria has confirmed the appointment of a former captain of the Super Eagles, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, as a replacement for the sacked coach, Samson Siasia, and given a mandate to take Nigeria to the Brazil 2014 quarter-finals of the World Cup. Keshi replaces Samson Siasia, who was sacked last Friday after his 2012 Nations Cup […]

No more autonomy for Eagles’ coach – NFF

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Henchforth, the Super Eagles’ new chief coach will no longer enjoy full autonomy in executing his job if the executive board of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) finally strikes out the clause, which gives total freedom and outright non-interference to the Eagles’ chief coach and by extension other national teams’ chief coaches. The new term […]

Press Release By Prophet T.B. Joshua: Africa, the way forward

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Press Releases Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

The General Overseer of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, Nigeria, Prophet T.B. Joshua has attributed the backwardness of the African Continent to the dearth of consultants and elder statesmen. Lamenting the situation, T.B. Joshua said that former presidents of the African Continent should, by virtue of their experience and wisdom, become fathers […]

Bishop David Oyedepo, one of Nigeria’s Richest Pastors, Completes N2 Goshen Project

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Bishop David Oyedepo has added yet another feather to his crowded cap.He has completed a multibillion naira Abuja Goshen project. Named Goshen City, it’s a replica of Canaanland in Ota, Ogun State. It’s comfortably lying atop over 560 acres of land,along Abuja-Keffi Road. Information available to us revealed that the Goshen project commenced in 2008.And […]