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Pastor in court over N225,000 fraud

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, October 27th, 2011

One pastor Frederick Igboka, 36, on Tuesday appeared before an Upper Area Court in Gwagwalada for allegedly defrauding one Chioma Nmaduewesi of N225,000. Igboka,who was accused of defrauding Nmaduewesi in the pretext of processing her travelling documents to Japan, had in the process issued her with fake documents. The Police Prosecutor, Sunday Okedi told the […]

State affairs: ACN declares Yakowa missing

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Headlines, Kaduna, Party Politics, State News Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kaduna State chapter has said that with the increasing spate of insecurity in the State, Governor Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa may have lost grip of the state’s affairs. To this end, the ACN has declared Yakowa missing for allegedly paying nonchalant attitude to the plights of the people, but decided […]

Igbo leaders brainstorm on funding tertiary institutions

Posted by admin Education, Headlines, South-East Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The downward trend being experienced in the education sector, particularly the higher institutions has been blamed on a dysfunctional system of the system and underfunding in different secondary and tertiary institutions in the country. This was the thrust of the first ‘Civil Society Summit on the Structure and Funding of 21st Century Higher Education in […]

Extension of detention: Baba Suwe challenges court order

Posted by admin Headlines, Judiciary, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Tuesday, October 25, 2011 Baba Suwe Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Detained Lagos-based comedian, Babatunde Omidina, a.k.a Baba Suwe, yesterday filed a fresh motion praying a Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to vacate its earlier order made on October 21, empowering the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to […]

Excess crude account: Govs ask court to stop FG from making withdrawals

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, Oil Politics Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The lingering crisis over the Excess Crude Account deepened yesterday with state governors praying the Supreme Court to stop the Federal Government from making any withdrawals, howsoever, from the account styled the “Excess Crude Account” (or any account replacing same by any name howsoever) pending the hearing and determination of a suit they filed in […]

Yobe Governor loses wife

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Women Politics, Yobe Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has lost his youngest wife, Hajiya Zainab to the cold hand of death yesterday morning. She was said to have died at the National Hospital Abuja from a protracted illness, which treatment was actually started in Egypt but she was brought back to the country in the wake of […]

Arms importation: Judge orders journalists, lawyers, litigants to leave courtroom

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

Citing the need to protect national security, a Federal High Court Judge, Justice Okechukwu Okeke yesterday ordered journalists, lawyers and litigants to leave the court room as trial commenced in the arms importation case against two persons, an Iranian and a Nigerian. The Iranian, Azim Aghajani and Alli Abass Jega are currently being tried for […]

Gaddafi, son buried in secret location

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

MISRATA (AFP) – The body of Libyan ex-leader Muammer Gaddafi was buried overnight in a secret location after days of being put on display in a market freezer, a Misrata military council member said Tuesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gaddafi’s remains were buried “overnight in a religious ceremony” along with the […]

Abia sack: Imo indigenes return

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, Imo, State News Monday, October 24th, 2011

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA IMO indigenes and even Abia born women married to Imo husbands have reportedly been disengaged from the Abia public service prompting disenchantment across Imo. As the administration in Owerri ponders its response, Chidi Nkwopara reports on the feelings of Imo stakeholders. THE threat issued by Abia State Government that it would sack […]

I killed Gaddafi, Libyan rebel claims

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, October 24th, 2011

A LIBYAN revolutionary fighter has bragged in a leaked video that he was the man who killed that country’s despotic former ruler, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi. The young man, who is pictured but has not yet been identified, said he killed the fallen dictator because he could not bear the thought of taking him alive. ‘We […]