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EFCC finally arraigns Akingbola, associate

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

A former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank Plc, Mr. Erastus Akingbola, alongside an associate, Mr. Bayo Dada, was on Tuesday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja. They were finally arraigned after three adjournments on 22-count charge of stealing as against […]

Jonathan recalls wife-battering Nigerian ambassador to Kenya, Dr. Wigwe

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

A women advocacy group, Women Arise, has condemned the conduct of the Nigerian Ambassador to Kenya, Dr. Chijioke Wigwe, who was reported to have inflicted serious bodily injuries on his wife, Mrs. Tess Iyi Wigwe, in a domestic violence. In a statement by the President, WA, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, on Tuesday, the group described […]

Graft: Court remands Igbinedion in prison

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

A younger brother of former Edo State governor, Lucky Igbinedion, Mike, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody on a 66-count charge of corruption levelled against him and others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Also ordered to remain in prison custody was the ex-governor’s former personal assistant, Patrick Oboigbodin. The ex-governor, who […]

10 teachers die

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Ten secondary school teachers are reported to have died of food poisoning, and several others hospitalised in Katsina. Investigations by the News Agency of Nigeria showed that the incident occurred at the weekend at a workshop organised by the state Ministry of Education for some 650 teachers at Government Day Secondary School, Kofar Yan’daka, […]

FIFA in nasty bribery scandal

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Beleaguered president Sepp Blatter formally opened the 61st Fifa Congress on Tuesday warning of the dangers world football’s governing body is facing. Blatter, welcoming Fifa’s 208 delegates at the opening ceremony which featured jugglers, folk dancers and singer Grace Jones, said he would speak in more detail about the problems facing Fifa before the business […]

Bangladesh woman cuts off ‘attacker’s’ penis

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

A 40-year-old Bangladeshi woman cut off a man’s penis during an alleged attempted rape and took it to a police station as evidence, police in a remote part of Bangladesh said Monday. The woman, a married mother of three, was attacked while she was sleeping in her shanty in Jhalakathi district, some 200 kilometres (120 […]

3 dead, 500 arrested, 60 cars damaged as police, MASSOB clash

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Monday, May 30th, 2011

Three loyalists of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, are feared dead, while about 60 hired commercial vehicles used by the activists were allegedly destroyed by policemen sent to stop the group’s assembly in Owerri, yesterday. The MASSOB members were heading to Owerri, Imo State capital, to mark the […]

Forgive me, Sheriff begs Borno people

Posted by admin Borno, Governors, Headlines, State News Monday, May 30th, 2011

Former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff has begged the people for forgiveness over the shortcomings of his government, noting that he might have offended the people in the course of leading the state for eight years. In his valedictory speech on Sunday at the Ramat Square venue of the inauguration of the new […]

Qur’an ‘ll be my guide – new Zamfara Gov

Posted by admin Governors, Headlines, State News, Zamfara Monday, May 30th, 2011

The new Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar has sworn that the Holy Qur’an would be his guide in administering the state, even as the former governor, Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi left over N40billion debts and asked for forgiveness of any wrong done during his tenure in the state. Abubakar, who spoke during the inauguration ceremony […]

Amosun promises free education, health

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Monday, May 30th, 2011

Senator Ibikunle Amosun yesterday took the oath of office as the fourth civilian governor of Ogun State with a pledge to transform the state beyond what his predecessors left. Amosun in his acceptance speech shortly after the state Chief Judge, Mr. Charles Oluremi Jacobs administered the oath of office on him at the MKO Abiola […]