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As Residents Flee Maiduguri…Transport Operators Smile to Banks

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Transport operators are making a killing in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. As tens of thousands of people flee the embattled city, the operators have hiked their transport fares. The losers have been those trying to relocate to safer zones from a city now under siege. Though banking activities have been curtailed following challenges […]

Olowu Stool: Obasanjo, Monarch Dragged to Court

Posted by admin Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Saturday, July 16th, 2011

One of the contenders for the Olowu chieftaincy stool, Prince Olutayo Fadairo, has filed a legal action against the incumbent monarch, Oba Olusanya Dosunmu, before a high court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, asking the court to stop Dosunmu from parading himself as the Olowu of Owu, Abeokuta. The chieftaincy dispute in the Owu Kingdom, the […]

‘Nigerian Prisons Holding Over 25,000 Awaiting-Trial Inmates’

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, July 16th, 2011

The Nigerian Prisons Service has admitted to having 40,189 prisoners under its custody with 64 per cent or 25,00 inmates awaiting trial. Meanwhile, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ahamba has described the imprisonment of the 25,000 crime suspects who are are awaiting trial as unconstitutional as they are yet to be convicted. Assistant comptroller of […]

20 Suspected Cultists Arrested for Forcing Girls into Lesbianism

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Friday, July 15th, 2011

Twenty persons suspected to be cultists were Friday paraded by men of the 82 Division of the Nigeria Army, Enugu for allegedly forcing some female students to have sex with themselves. Briefing news men before parading the suspected cultists at 82 Division, Assistant Director, Public Relations of the division, Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, disclosed that […]

Court grants Niger senator, Kontagora, bail

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger, Senate, State News Friday, July 15th, 2011

A MAGISTRATE court sitting in Minna, the Niger State capital, yesterday granted bail to Senator Ibrahim Musa Kontagora of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), representing Niger North senatorial district in the National Assembly. The senator was on Monday arrested by men of the State Security Service (SSS) over alleged forgery of tax certificate he […]

NAFDAC gives drug fakers black eye

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, July 15th, 2011

Drug counterfeiters and fakers, who may have thought that the change of guards in the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), in 2007, would give them respite to ply their nefarious trade may have got a shock of their lives, as the agency’s leadership has embarked on a quiet revolution, which makes […]

Jonathan earns N1m monthly •Senators earns more than VP, Senate President

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Legislature, Presidency, Senate Friday, July 15th, 2011

With the authentic figures by the RMAFC, it means the four-year tenure of Mr. President will fetch him a total of N56m in salaries and allowances. A table of the emoluments of all political office holders in the nation and those of judiciary made available at the commission’s website listed the figures. With this revelation […]

Ohanaeze wants state of emergency in Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Friday, July 15th, 2011

Elders Council of Ohanaeze Ndigbo has urged the Federal Government to declare state of emergency in Borno State, to avoid further loss of lives to the Boko Haram sect. It also condemned the activities of the group and called for the unmasking of those behind it. In a communiqué issued after an emergency meeting of […]

Another bomb blast injures 7 policemen in Maiduguri

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News Friday, July 15th, 2011

Another bomb explosion suspected to have been planted by members of the Islamic Sect yesterday morning has injured 7 policemen in their patrol vehicle at the Bulumkutu /Pompomari round- about in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Our correspondent gathered that, the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was planted on the main road leading to Damaturu –Maiduguri […]

ASUU threatens to go on strike

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Friday, July 15th, 2011

As the labour unions in the country threaten to embark on a three day -warning strike over the non implementation of the new minimum wage, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened to down tools due to what the union described as unwillingness of government to sign the amended bill on the retirement […]