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Violent robberies: Banks, police plan new security measures

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

The Group Managing Director (GMD) of First Bank Plc., Mr. Bisi Onasanya, has said the recent violent robbery attack on one of the bank’s branches in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, is a reflection of the level of decadence in the country, saying banks were already in discussion with the police hierarchy on how […]

Picture: ‘Bible dropped from heaven on rain-soaked yams… Bible not wet’

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Is it a myth? Where is the Bible? Did the British missionary steal it? Did he keep it in his home church before he died? Can it be retrieved from Britain? By Sam Eyoboka, who was at the Bible Site in Araya ON January 1, 1914, the British government, in a deft political manoeuvre, proclaimed […]

Make Onyali-Omagbemi our sports minister – Toblow

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Sunday, July 3rd, 2011

Former African sprint queen, Mary Onyali-Omagbemi is on the ministerial wish list of President Goodluck Jonathan. Since her name was mentioned in the media there has been a buzz of activity around her and the coach who brought her to lime-light Tobias Igwe has urged Jonathan to make it happen. Coach Igwe discovered the young […]

Uduaghan shuts maternity home, says it’s a deadly place

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Udaughan, has ordered the immediate closure of a maternity home at Cable Point, Asaba. Uduaghan, who gave the order when he paid a surprise visit to the maternity, said the place was operating beyond its mandate. He described the Maternity as a deadly centre capable of sending patients to their […]

Lagos to reduce foreign medical treatment-Fashola

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Friday reiterated the commitment of his administration to reducing, to its barest minimum, the number of medical cases taken abroad from the state for treatment, saying the capital flight resulting from such foreign treatments was not good for the state. Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, […]

Monarch Accused of Rape Remanded in Prison

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

A CHIEF magistrate court in Osun State has ordered a monarch in the state, Oba Adebukola Alli, the Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of the state, to be remanded in prison custody. The embattled monarch is standing trial for alleged raping of a 23-year-old member of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) who […]

Fashola’s Cabinet: House Confirms Entire List

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

ALL the 37 cabinet nominees sent to the Lagos State House of Assembly by Governor, Babatunde Fashola, have scaled through the screening process and had their nominations confirmed. The Speaker, Mr. Ikuforiji Adeyemi, said that 21 of them would be Commissioners while 16 would be Special Advisers. The exercise, which lasted three […]

In Kano, tussle for Igbo leadership gets messy

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, South-East, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

The Kano High Court in Gaya, a town some 70 kilometres South of Kano city, was full of life on Wednesday, June 16. The court was hosting a cream of Igbo personalities, including associates and aides and counsel of two Kano-crowned, Igbo monarchs, Nze John Chiejina Nnaji and Chief Boniface Ibekwe, both locked in a […]

6 months on: Anambra to recall striking judiciary and health workers

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

More than five months after the face-off between the Anambra State government and its judiciary workers, the state has assured that the striking workers should prepare for resumption of duty. Addressing journalists after commissioning the new High Court in Nnewi, the Anambra State governor, represented by his deputy, Mr. Emeka Sibeudu, stated that the state […]

Niger to Spend N6.5b on Minimum Wage …Detects 4000 Ghost Workers

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger, State News Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

The 25 local government councils in Niger State would need a whopping sum of N6.5billion monthly to be able to pay the new minimum wage of staff and primary school teachers even as the state government detected 4000 ghost workers in the last staff audit. This was coming on the heels of the disclosure that […]