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Mikel’s father’s abductors make contact with family, car found

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Abductors of Michael Obi, father of Chelsea star John Mikel Obi, have contacted the family according to news reports. “They called mummy (Mikel’s mother) and told her that we should not bother looking for Daddy in Jos because he has been taken to Lagos,” a family source informed KickOffNigeria.com. Similarly, Tony Obi, the eldest of […]

N18, 000 Mimimum Wage Act not convenient –Oshiomhole

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomole on Tuesday said the N18,000 National Minimum Wage Act signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in March, 2011, as the new monthly salary for workers as against the old N5,500 is not a convenient law owing to the challenges it posed to state governments across the Federation. He was, […]

NFF bans Imo State FA for match fixing

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has clamped a one-year ban on Imo State FA following a match fixing scandal. The Disciplinary Committee had over the weekend, accused the Imo FA of collaborating with the state’s amateur club, Imo United FC, to fix the match between it and the visiting Akpabuyo FC of Cross Rivers to enable […]

Army General arraigned over Boko Haram suspects’ escape

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Brig. General Muraina Raji, former Commander, 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, was on Tuesday arraigned before a Special Court Martial over the escape of two detainees from the Brigade’s detention facilities. According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) report, the detainees were suspected to be members of the Boko Haram who were arrested over an onslaught […]

Okonjo-Iweala to be sworn in today

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will effectively make a comeback this morning as a minister in the Jonathan administration. The former World Bank managing director would be sworn in this morning at 9 a.m. as finance minister and thereafter join her colleagues for the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) at 10 a.m. President Goodluck Jonathan had earlier […]

Picture: Suspect hides cocaine in bedsheets …says ‘I have six children to feed’

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, August 15th, 2011

A mother-of-six, Folashade Agu, 47, has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for trafficking 2.250kg of cocaine. Agu showed the ingenuity of a criminal mind by hiding the drug inside the bedsheets she brought from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was arrested alongside two other suspected Nigerian drug traffickers at the Murtala Mohammed […]

Chelsea Midfielder, Mikel Obi’s Father Kidnapped in Jos – ‘Please let him go’ – Mikel Obi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 15th, 2011

Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has appeared on television to plea for his father’s release after he was kidnapped in Nigeria. Michael Obi, who runs an interstate transport company in the city of Jos, has been missing since Friday when he failed to return home from work, and the player’s representatives have confirmed that he […]

Murder of okada rider causes tension in Jos

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Monday, August 15th, 2011

There was palpable tension in Jos, at the weekend, following the gruesome murder of a commercial motorcyclist by some unknown persons at Eto Baba in Jos North Local Government Area of the state. The corpse of the okada rider identified as Kamilu Yahaya, was discovered in a stream in Eto Baba. It was learnt that […]

Policeman kills man over N20 in Anambra

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Monday, August 15th, 2011

AWKA- IRATE youths at Governor Peter Obi’s home town, Agulu, in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, weekend, burnt down the police post in the town following the killing of a middle–aged man by a policeman at a check-point. An eye-witness said the man, who hailed from Awgbu in Orumba North Local Government Area, […]

We ‘ll monitor clean-up of Ogoni oil spills – Ihedioha

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, August 15th, 2011

ABUJA— Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha has said the legislature will play an effective oversight function to monitor the restoration of the devastated environment of Ogoni land and other communities affected by oil spills in the Niger Delta. While acknowledging the submission of the report of the United Nations Environmental Programme, UNEP, on […]