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ASUU begins nationwide warning strike today

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has ordered a shutdown of all academic activities in the nation’s universities, as it begins its one-week warning strike today. This is just as the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has thrown its weight behind the ASUU, while asking the Federal Government to honour the agreement reached with […]

Sanusi wins sub-Saharan African Central Bank Governor of the Year again (For introducing Islamic Banking)

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has been announced the winner of the 2011 Central Bank Governor of the Year Award for Sub-Saharan Africa for the second consecutive year, by the international magazine, Emerging Markets. According to the editor, Emerging Markets, Taimur Ahmad, the awards recognise and honour leading policy makers […]

Dangote donated N524.7m in one month

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has made a donation of N524.7 million cash and millions of naira worth of relief materials to the needy within the last one month. The states that have benefited from the billionaire’s largesse include Bauchi, Gombe, Kaduna, Oyo and Lagos states. In this regard, the Bauchi State governor, Mallam Isa […]

How Aliyu, Jang foiled emergency rule in Plateau

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Sunday, September 25th, 2011

A northern cabal said to be the mastermind of the sustained unrest in the North almost succeeded in causing a declaration of a state of emergency in Plateau State, but for smart moves by the governor, Jonah Jang and his colleague from Niger State, Babangida Aliyu. Findings by Nigerian Tribune indicated that members of the […]

Immigration arrests 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

THE Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), in Kaduna, has arrested over 100 suspected mercenaries from Libya. They were suspected to have fled the country and arrived in Kaduna through the Niger-Nigeria border at the weekend, after the fall of the regime of Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. The suspects, according to an eyewitness, arrived in the state […]

No Gaddafi men in Nigeria, says minister (Clueless minister)

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 25th, 2011

There is no confirmation that some Muammar Gaddafi loyalists have entered Nigeria from neighbouring countries such as Niger, Foreign Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru has said. Ashiru told Nigerian reporters covering the 66th UN General Assembly in New York that speculations that Gaddafi’s men had entered some states in Nigeria were untrue. “Our security agencies are on the […]

16 illegal refineries discovered in Abia

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Port Harcourt- About 16 illegal refineries have been discovered within Imo River Field of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, Abia State, causing the company to shut down production of 25, 000 barrels of oil per day since August 28, 2011. The action aims at starving the bunkerers of oil product in order to prevent further […]

FA Cup: Heartland FC wins Nigerian Championship

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, September 25th, 2011

Where is Mike Obi?His stunning free kick won Heartland their last FA Cup final 23 years ago. Then they were Iwuanyanwu Nationale, a team that dazzled in the Nigerian scene, winning the league in three successive years and also making impact in the continent. Those were the days they were ably led by Prince Lemmy […]

Nigeria Needs $10bn Annually to Achieve 40,000 MW

Posted by admin Headlines, Power Sector Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Minister of Power, Prof. Bath Nnaji, By Crusoe Osagie The Federal Government Thursday said for Nigeria to achieve 40,000 Megawatts by 2020, it has to make an investment of $10 billion annual over the next 10 years. Minister of Power, Prof. Bath Nnaji, however, explained that government did not have such money and said that […]

Killer-wife Insists;My Husband was a Cultist

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Mrs Ngozi Funmi Ademoye, who confessed to killing her husband, Kazeem, last Friday, spoke for the first time Thursday, insisting that her husband was indeed a cultist. In giving graphic details of the events that led to the eventual murder of her husband, the suspect now held at the Force CID, Panti, Lagos, explained that […]