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Olympics African qualifier host – Nigeria ready to bid

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

If arrangements by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) get the nod of the board and the Presidency, Nigeria may join the bidding race to host the eight-nation’s African qualifier tournament for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The Dream Team V had last weekend defeated visiting Tanzania side on 3-1 goal aggregate at the Samuel […]

Two years on, intrigues stall N60b gas-to-power project

Posted by admin Headlines, Oil Politics Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

AN unsavoury mix of intrigues and power-play may have been hampering the execution of the $400 million (N60 billion) gas treatment processing scheme at Utorogu and Oben in Delta State. The project, scripted to end gas flaring and provide dry gas for improved power generation in the country, has been bogged down by alleged […]

Anambra indigene becomes Abia acting CJ

Posted by admin Abia, Anambra, Headlines, State News Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

AN indigene of Anambra State, Theresa Uzomaka Uzokwe, has been sworn in as the acting Chief Judge (CJ) of Abia State. Uzokwe is the third person in Abia State to act as the CJ within the past six months. The other two that acted before Uzokwe were Ijeoma Offonry and Nnenna Chioma Oti. While swearing in Uzokwe in […]

Picture: 100 new trucks to clean Lagos to next level

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

LAWMA procures new equipment, targets waste to wealth conversion MANY Lagosians still remember when the streets and highways were homes to heaps of refuse. Those were the days the city of Lagos was ranked as among the dirtiest in the country. Fortunately, those days now belong to a past, which Lagosians and their government […]

Adeboye at UN, charts path to peace in Middle East

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, General Politics, Headlines, National Politics, Religion Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

PEACE in the Middle East would remain a mirage without God’s involvement, as all involved in the process must get down on their knees to pray and cry out in supplication to the Creator of the Universe, General Overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said. Adeboye stated this on Monday when […]

3 arrested for alleged murder of toddler for rituals (Wickedness of men – God helps us)

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

THREE persons have been arrested over the murder of a one-year old girl, Dada Akingboye, in Igbokoda, a riverine area of Ondo State, for alleged rituals. Police authorities in the state said the suspects have confessed to the killing of the toddler. The State Police Command’s spokesman, Mr. Adeniran Aremu, said the suspects went to […]

E/Guinea dumps Boy-Girls (It is now clear that they were boys used in AWC – Shame on E/Guinea)

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 20th, 2011

Equatorial Guinea have sprung a major surprise by dropping two of their star names for the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup to be held in Germany from Saturday. Sisters Salimata and Bilguisa Simpore were key players for the Guinea side at the 2010 African Women’s Championship in South Africa where they finished runners-up to Nigeria […]

4 dead as dock workers attack Police post

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, June 20th, 2011

At least four persons, including a Divisional Police Officer and an Assistant Superintendent of Police, were feared dead, yesterday, after some workers suspected to be from Niger Dock attacked a Police post on Snake Island, shooting sporadically. The workers it was gathered, were protesting the death of three of their colleagues in the hands of […]

Customs intercepts container-load of N15m

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 20th, 2011

LAGOS – THE Tin-Can Island Customs Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, yesterday, intercepted a container containing $110,000.60 (about N15 million) and arrested the Customs agent who attempted to clear the strange cargo. The container, with number MSKU 966291/0 and brought in a Safmarine vessel, sailed in from the United States of America. The […]

Child witch accusation: FG warns churches, parents, others

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 20th, 2011

ABUJA—The Federal Government yesterday issued a stern warning to churches, parents, guardians, as well as individual or corporate body who have taken keen interest in the identification and stigmatization of children as witches or wizards to desist or face the full wrath of the law. Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and […]