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Gaddafi’s body has bullet hole, burial within 24 hrs

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will be buried according to Muslim rites within 24 hours, a Libyan transitional government force commander said on Friday. The announcement is coming just as witnesses said the body bore a visible bullet hole in the head. “He will get his right like any Muslim; his body will be washed […]

Minister bewails N2t spent annually on food importation

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, the Minister of Agriculture, says Nigerian spends N2 trillion annually on food importation. Adesina, who disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at an interactive session with members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, said the country had become a dumping ground for imported food. “It is a shameful thing that Nigeria has […]

Picture: Priest sees mystery snake in vision, days later, same reptile shows up in church member’s house

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, October 21st, 2011

• The snake lying at the premesis of St Peter’s Angelican Church, Alaba Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Till this moment, many are still trooping into St Peter’s Anglican Church in Alaba, near Alaba International Market in Ojo, Lagos. They want to see the remains of a mystery snake which was […]

N1.3bn fraud: EFCC arraigns Fayose

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Ekiti, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Erstwhile Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose was on Wednesday arraigned at the Federal High Court, Ado-Ekiti by the officials of the Economic and Financial and Crimes Commission, EFCC, for alleged diversion of Ekiti State fund to the tune of N1.3 billion while in office. The case with number FHC/L/179c/2006, brought before Justice Emmanuel […]

Groups flay rape of old women in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Some women groups in Enugu State have condemned the recent raping of old women by youths of Opi in Nsukka Local Government Area, describing it as ‘’barbaric and bizarre’’. Mrs. Joy Ezeilo, the Executive Director, Women Aid Collective, WACOL, said yesterday that it was a violation of women’s rights and a crime against humanity. She […]

Police arrest man for piercing wife’s eyeball

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Sylvester Emezi, who fled his Port Harcourt, Rivers State, home for Lagos, after allegedly piercing his wife’s eyeball with a sharp object during a scuffle. Mean time, the body of the motorcycle passenger, who, Monday, plunged into the lagoon at Third Mainland Bridge, is yet to be recovered, […]

10 die in Imo flood disaster

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

The death toll in the flood disaster currently rocking Okwuamarihe and Amanachi communities in Orsu Local Government Area of Imo State has risen to 10. Similarly, over 50,000 families have also been sacked from their ancestral homes by flood, while several houses have been submerged in the disaster. Narrating the ordeal of his people to […]

Iwuanyanwu calls for creation of additional states in South East

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, has called for the creation of additional states in the South East geo-political zone. Iwuanyanwu made the call on Tuesday in his Ikeduru country home in Atta in Imo, when the Acting National Chairman of the party, Malam Abubakar Baraje, paid him a condolence […]

Picture: Ritualists strike in Ekiti- Abduct girl, 14, shave her pubic hair

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

•Ranti Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section A 14-years old girl, Ranti Openiye, narrowly escaped death at the hands of ritualists in Ado-Ekiti last Thursday. Her escape was simply miraculous after spending 72 hours in their den. A six-man syndicate at Basiri area of the state capital kidnapped Ranti, a student of […]

Rape of female corps member: Suspects remanded in prison custody

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp) Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Two suspects accused of raping a female member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano State have been remanded in prison custody by a Kano Chief Magistrate Court. The suspects, Abba Garba 18 and Abubakar Sulemain, 17, were remanded in prison custody over their alleged complicity in the rape incident that took place […]