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2 docked in Bauchi over alleged witchcraft

Posted by admin Bauchi, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Bauchi – Two persons have been arraigned before a Bauchi Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly bewitching one Hafsatu Sani in the last four years. Those charged before the court sitting in Warji Local Government Area of the state are Adamu Mamuda and Ibrahim Ganye. According to the Prosecutor, Inspector Mato Albasu, the two accused persons […]

Boko Haram: We still hear bomb blasts in dreams – Bayelsa students

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Yenagoa – About 45 students of Bayelsa State origin evacuated from the University of Maiduguri, Borno, Wednesday, narrated their ordeals in the troubled city. The traumatised students lamented that days after being evacuated by the Bayelsa State Government, they still hear bomb explosions and sounds of gunfire in their sleep. The students, who were evacuated […]

INEC drops 13 resident commissioners

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics, National Politics Thursday, July 21st, 2011

ABUJA — Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has announced the expiration of the tenure of 13 State Resident Electoral Commisioners of the commission. Jega made the announcement at a farewell dinner organised for the 13 RECs who had served their five-year tenure during the commission’s retreat with RECs which […]

Aborted strike: Why FG surrendered to Labour

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, July 21st, 2011

MORE facts have emerged as to why the Federal Government, Tuesday, night yielded to Labour’s demand to pay all civil servants from level 01 – 17 contrary to earlier position that only core civil servants from levels 01-06 would benefit from the N18,000 new minimum wage. The Federal Government had Monday, told the leaders of […]

N40bn scam: Bankole asks court to disqualify Keyamo from prosecuting him

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Embattled former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole has formally prayed an Abuja High Court to disqualify Lagos Lawyer Mr. Festus Keyamo from prosecuting him on behalf of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the alleged N40b loan obtained to fund the House while he was in office. But in a […]

Opinion: Fears for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

Of all the ministers recently appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to help him with the task of transforming Nigeria, none excites my imagination on the potential to do something to put Nigeria on a sounder footing as Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Finance Minister in Olusegun Obasanjo’s regime between 2003 and 2006. Okonjo-Iweala, who resigned her […]

Suswam swears in commissioners, charges them on development

Posted by admin Benue, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE Benue State govrnor, Dr Gabriel Suswam, has described the office of a commissioner as pivotal to effective goverance, even as he charged the newly sworn in commissioners in the state to be catalyst for meaningful development. In his address on the occasion, Suswam said “I want to charge you to consider your appointment […]

Another bomb blast in Maiduguri

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

EARLY morning blast on Tuesday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, left three members of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Restore Order, in Borno, critically injured, while members of the JTF were said to have made several arrests in connection with the bomb blast. Speaking by phone on Tuesday, JTF spokesman, Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, […]

UNICEF tasks Northern states on polio, girl-child education

Posted by admin Headlines, North-Central, North-East, North-West Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Deputy Representative, Mr Jacques Boyer, has stressed the need for traditional and religious leaders in the 10 Northern states of Nigeria, to mobilise and educate their subjects on the need to tackle polio, girl-child education and child protection in their respective areas. This is just as he said that […]

‘Inadequate funding of police, bane of criminal justice’

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede SAN, on Tuesday, identified lack of adequate funding of the Nigeria Police as one of the major problems facing administration of criminal justice in the country. He also advocated the construction of more prisons as a panacea for de-congestion of prisons across the […]