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`How Air Force pilots survived plane crash in Akwa Ibom’

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News Saturday, October 29th, 2011

The authorities, yesterday, shed more light on the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane that crash landed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Friday, saying the aircraft landed 1,100 meters from the runway. They insisted that the two pilots of the plane, one of six involved in the 2011 Staff Continuity Training Exercise and Sports Week […]

Killer wonder bank•25 depositors die •13,000 lose N22bn •Emir shields fraudster from police

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Like Judas goat, he led the unsuspecting lambs to the slaughter. He swore that he never meant to swindle anybody but four years after his victims took that tragic turn in the road, all most of them have to show for their ‘labour’ is tears and debts the size of a small Latin-American country. And […]

NAF plane crashes in Uyo

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News Saturday, October 29th, 2011

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane has crashed in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The L-39 trainer jet was on a routine training exercise from the 303 Training School in Kano when it crashed about 50 metres away from Uyo airport. However, no life was lost in the incident, which happened at 7:15 p.m. on Friday. […]

Rita Dominic on the nick of time

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, On The Lighter Side Saturday, October 29th, 2011

Over a decade ago, Rita Dominic was a wannabe star. At a meeting over a decade ago, she told this reporter that she wanted to be all she could be. Shortly after, Rita emerged from the lot to become a bona fide star. A star whose stardom transcends the shores of this country; and ever […]

NAFDAC decries high incidence of fake drugs

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, October 27th, 2011

ENUGU—South East zone of National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has raised fresh alarm over the high incidence of counterfeit drugs in the country. It also announced the discovery and seizure of fake drugs worth over N2.5 million from Ogbete main market in Enugu during the week. The seized drugs, which were […]

Ijaw accuse Police IG of complacency over Bayelsa killing

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Ijaw Monitoring Group, IMG, has described the failure of Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to respond to the killing of 20-year-old Emmanuel Victor by a policeman at a check-point in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, last week, as an embarrassment to Nigerians and the international community. In a statement by Comrade Joseph Evah, the Ijaw group […]

Opinion: Theodore Orji and the politics of non-indigenes

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State appears as one with patriotic zeal and love for the fatherland. It is also expected that these ascribed qualities would rub-off on his ethnic group-the Igbo. But political developments in Abia, God’s Own State, in recent times, especially on the vexed issue of non-indigenes in 21st Century Nigeria and […]

Gunmen invade court free robbery suspect, kill prison official

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Hell was let loose yesterday in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State when dare devil robbers stormed a High Court, killed a prison official and set free a robbery suspect, Abdulrazak Nasiru who was standing trial in the court. An eyewitness told Daily Sun that the gunmen had hid in a nearby primary […]

27 states face bankruptcy

Posted by admin Headlines, State News Thursday, October 27th, 2011

From the Senate came the gloomy news yesterday that the financial accounts of 27 states are in the red as some of them have been declared either “distressed” or “gloomy.” Only Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra and Jigawa states were given a clean bill of health. The six states that are in financial distress are: Kano, […]

Gaddafi’s son seeks aircraft to surrender -NTC source

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Dubai – Muammar Gaddafi’s fugitive son Saif al-Islam wants an aircraft to take him out of Libya’s southern desert so he could turn himself in to The Hague war crimes court, a source with Libya’s National Transitional Council said on Thursday. A fearful Saif al-Islam, 39, went on the run at about the time his […]