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NYSC appeals to Kano communities, traditional rulers on safety

THE Kano State coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mallam Lawal Zariya, has appealed to various communities and traditional leaders in the state to assist the organisation in ensuring the protection of life and property of corps members deployed in the state. The corps members, according to him, were leaders of tomorrow, a […]

Picture: Nigerian man in US tries to cash bank check, ends up in jail

Posted by admin Headlines, Raw Politics Saturday, July 9th, 2011

Ikenna Njoku of Auburn, Wash., says he was mistakenly jailed for four days after he tried to cash a Chase cashier’s check at a Chase bank branch. Tha bank has apologized. For 28-year-old Ikenna Njoku, what should have been the simple act of cashing a check turned into four days in jail and the loss […]

Canada recognizes independent South Sudan

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, July 9th, 2011

MONTREAL — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Saturday that Canada recognizes the newly-independent country of South Sudan, and welcomed the new country into the “community of nations.” “This historic occasion represents an important opportunity for the people of South Sudan to build a brighter, better future for themselves,” Baird said in a statement. Baird […]

Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence For Hausa Actress

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines Saturday, July 9th, 2011

The Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the death sentence passed on Kano State-based Kannywood actress, Miss Rabi Ismail, by a Kano State High Court and the Court of Appeal in the Kaduna Division, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Ibrahim Auwalu, in 2002, by drugging and drowning him. In the lead judgment of the apex court […]

Two Foreigners Bag 45 Years For Drugs

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, July 9th, 2011

A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced a Taiwanese, Fong Chiu Sen and a Chinese, Wang Richard, to a cumulative jail term of 45 years for conspiring to import about 450.4 kilogrammes of cocaine from the Republic of Chile into Nigeria. Three Nigerians, Inua Mohammed, Ezeala Kingsley and Godswill Asomugha, who have been […]

Transport Minister’s Aide Rough Handles NIMASA DG

Posted by admin Headlines, Ministries, Raw Politics Friday, July 8th, 2011

A security detail attached to the Minister of Transport, Alhaji Yusuf Suleiman, gave the Director General of the Nigeria Maritime Administration and Security Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Patrick Akpobolukeme, the shock of his life on Thursday when he practically bundled the man out of the ministry’s headquarters in Abuja. Sources confirmed that the action of the […]

‘Why some Nigerians are trapped in America’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, July 8th, 2011

Nigerian United States based environmental scientist, Dr. Asopuru Okemgbo, has said that life in United States of America is not bed of roses, as immigrants and foreigners have to prove themselves beyond their equals. Okemgbo, who has been in the US for over 20 years, said the basic needs – water, food, access roads, transportation […]

Police arrainged man who killed wife in court

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, July 8th, 2011

The Yaba Chief Magistrate Court, in Lagos State, was yesterday, filled beyond capacity, as a crowd of curious audience swarmed in to witness the first arraignment of a 30-year- old man Akolade Arowolo, who was accused of killing his banker wife, Titilayo Arowolo. Father of the accused Mr. Arowolo, who wailed furiously as his son […]

Collapsed building 4 days after: Victims still trapped

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, July 8th, 2011

LAGOS— CRIES of agony, desperation and helplessness, yesterday, echoed from the debris of the four-storey building that collapsed at 4, Mogaji Lane in Ebute Ero area of Idumota, Lagos Island as trapped victims tried to reach out to their relations on the other side of the collapsed building. Their chances of survival, however, remained bleak […]

Indian staff protest at DSC over salary arrears

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Thursday, July 7th, 2011

WARRI-THE crisis in the Delta Steel Company, DSC, Plc, Aladja, Delta State, worsened, yesterday, as the Indian workers in the company, who were protesting alleged non-payment of salaries for upwards one year, stormed the Steel Melting Shop, SMS, section of the company to halt production. A source told Vanguard that when their bid to halt […]