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Robbers kill Rev Father, 5 others in Nasarawa

Posted by admin Headlines, Nasarawa, State News Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

No fewer than six persons including a Reverend Father in-charge of Wamba Catholic Church were killed over the weekend in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. According to an eyewitness account, the Reverend Father was coming from Wamba to Akwanga town when he stormed into the robbers who were operating along Wamba-Akwanga Road and […]

Police arrest bankers, others over robbery in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

FOUR suspects, including two bankers, have been arrested over a robbery attack on a branch of a new generation bank in Trinity area of Olodi Apapa, Lagos. Two of the suspects were said to have been caught inside the bank while trying to break into the vault, while the other two are the bank’s security […]

Sack education ministers, Gani’s son tells Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics, Raw Politics, Women Politics Monday, October 3rd, 2011

The son of the late legal icon and human rights activist, Mohammed Fawehinmi, has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to sack, without further delay, the two ministers in charge of education in the country, saying both lack quality to move the sector forward. Mohammed, who spoke after the thanksgiving service to celebrate the 60th anniversary […]

Make security priority for Guinea – Toro

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, October 3rd, 2011

With Nigeria’s all-important game a matter of days away, former Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Sani Toro, has called on the federal government and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to make security for the Guineans a top priority. Toro, said the importance attached to the game made it imperative for Nigeria to ensure that security […]

Boko Haram Scare Sparks Demolition in Lagos

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, October 3rd, 2011

GOVERNOR BABATUNDE FASHOLA By Gboyega Akinsanmi Operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on Environment and Other Special Offences stormed Agege area of the state Sunday, demolishing shanties and structures built along the rail line and drainage channels owing to what was ascribed to the constant scare of Boko Haram attacks in Lagos. Chairman of […]

Sultan Speaks on ‘Islam and Peace’ at Harvard

Posted by admin Headlines, Sultan of Sokoto Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III By Olusegun Adeniyi The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, will today deliver the Samuel L. and Elizabeth Jodidi Lecture, one of the most distinguished lectures at the Harvard University. According to a statement by the university, “the Sultan of Sokoto is the religious leader […]

National Hospital rejects accident victims in anticipation of bomb blast victims

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, October 3rd, 2011

National Hospital, Abuja. Inset: Accident and Emergency Unit A female auto crash victim in Abuja died on Saturday following National Hospital’s refusal to admit her at the Accident and Emergency Unit. PUNCH METRO gathered that there was an “order from above” that patients should not be admitted to the hospital in anticipation that there might […]

Nigerians killed near Gaddafi’s hometown

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Three Nigerians, alleged to be fighting alongside the soldiers of the ousted Libyan leader, Col. Muamar Gaddafi, have been killed by the National Transitional Council fighters close to Sirte, the ousted leader’s hometown. Spain-based Hamada Radio International monitored in Kaduna on Monday listed the three Nigerians killed as 33-year-old Ugochukwu Okafor; Emeka Aloysius Mohammed, […]

I hired those that killed my late husband – Detained wife

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, October 3rd, 2011

MORE revelations emerged, Monday,in the on-going investigation over the gruesome murder of a Lagos business man, Mr. Kazeem Ademoye,as the principal suspect who incidentally, is the victim’s wife, Mrs. Ngozi Ademoye, disowned her earlier assertion that she used an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) electrical gadget to murder her husband. She reportedly admitted that she actually […]

PHCN ordered to pay N8m to electrocuted woman’s family

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Bauchi—Power Holding Company, PHCN, has been ordered to pay N8.4million compensation to the family of a deceased pregnant woman who was electrocuted through alleged negligence by the company. The late Mrs Zainab Abubakar, 20, was said to have been electrocuted by a high tension transmission line which reportedly dropped on her building, causing her death […]