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Youth Corps member gang-raped in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), State News Monday, September 26th, 2011

TWO weeks after the uproar over the reported gang-raping of a student of Abia State University by five hoodlums, the police in Kano State, yesterday, paraded two of the four men who allegedly gang-raped a youth corps member. One of the suspects has confessed to having allegedly taken part in ‘’gang-raping’’ the youth corps member […]

Gov. Okorocha orders new Nigerian champion Heartland FC to remain in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Monday, September 26th, 2011

Governor Rochas Okorocha is still high on the success of Heartland FC who won the FA Cup on Sunday. The club was to return to Owerri Monday morning but he has ordered them to stay back in Lagos. There are no pretences about his mood. The success, coming 23 years after they won the FA […]

Book Launch –“The Republic of Biafra: Once Upon a Time in Nigeria My Story of The Biafra-Nigerian Civil War – A Struggle For SURVIVAL (1967-1970”)

Posted by admin Books & Magazines, Columnists, Headlines, Onyema Nkwocha Monday, September 26th, 2011

A New Book on the Preservation of Igbo and Nigeria’s Historical Events and Culture –“The Republic of Biafra: Once Upon A Time In Nigeria My Story Of The Biafra-Nigerian Civil War – A Struggle For SURVIVAL (1967-1970”) Dr. Onyema Nkwocha Synopsis of the Book Product Not quite four months after the Western Region’s election […]

Picture:World class scam: Man fools, swindles 7,000 Nigerians over Canadian visa • Held symposium, got police, court documents to convince victims

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 26th, 2011

It was high drama recently in Lagos when over 7000 Nigerians realized they had fallen prey to the tricks of one Fred Olawale Makanjuola, owner of Crystal Services, an immigration consultancy outfit.t was high drama recently in Lagos when over 7000 Nigerians realized they had fallen prey to the tricks of one Fred Olawale Makanjuola, […]

‘Non-indigene’ threat to national unity – Abia Govt.

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Monday, September 26th, 2011

THE threat to Nigerian unity, fanned by ‘indigene’ and ‘non-indigene’ issue is apparently not about to abate, going by a recent order emanating from the Abia State Government. The Theodore Orji-led government practically sacked so-called non-indigenes from the state’s public service, even when many of these are Igbo sons and daughters from other states in […]

Nigeria records 42% decrease in maternal deaths

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 26th, 2011

Lagos urges mass use of mosquito nets NIGERIA has recorded a 42 per cent decrease in maternal deaths due to pregnancy-related complications between 2008 and 2011, according to a report on global maternal and child mortality released at the just-concluded United Nations Summit on Non- Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and published in The Lancet medical journal. […]

Northern monarchs seek role in governance

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 26th, 2011

TRADITIONAL rulers in the North have urged the Federal Government to provide constitutional roles for them in the wave of intense security challenges facing the country. The monarchs, who met in Kaduna at the weekend under the chairmanship of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, also condemned the level of insecurity and poverty […]

MOSOP petitions UN human rights council over UNEP report

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, September 26th, 2011

LEADERS of oil-rich Ogoni, Rivers State, have petitioned the United Nations Human Rights Council to prevail on the Nigerian government to commence the implementation of the recommendations of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report on Ogoni. The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), which submitted the petition to the 18th session […]

Returnees relive journey of pain in Libya

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, September 26th, 2011

FOR three weeks they wandered in the desert and their destination was Nigeria. At last, they arrived in their motherland, which they left years ago in search of the greener pasture. But the joy of these over 100 Nigerians, who escaped from the war-torn Libya and arrived safely in their country to reunite with their […]

Armed robbers shut down Ijebu Igbo banks

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Two years after a robbery attack on one of the new generation banks in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, all banks in the town are yet to re-open for business. Investigation by the News Agency of Nigeria revealed that the management of the banks operating in the town had decided not to commence business due […]