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Group warns of imminent hostilities by ex-militants

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

A group, the Foundation for Ethnic Harmony in Nigeria, has condemned the post-election violence in some parts of the North, saying it is an invitation to the Niger Delta ex-militants to resume hostilities. The group said it was disheartening that while the local and international observers had commended the conduct of free and fair […]

Caution – Very Disturbing Picture: Man arraigned for pouring acid on wife

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

A suspect, Samson Igbinomewahin, 47, was on Monday arraigned at an Ebute Metta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly pouring acid on his wife, Mrs. Susan Jeremiah, 31. Jeremiah, a corporal in the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police in Ikoyi, Lagos, was brought to court with one side of her body disfigured […]

Nigeria ranked 65th globally for malicious Internet activities

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, April 18th, 2011

Nigeria has been ranked 65th in malicious Internet activities in 2010 out of the 233 countries monitored globally by the Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network. Symantec Corporation, a major Internet security solution provider in the world, on Monday, said its Internet Security Threat Report, Volume 16, found Nigeria to have moved up by five steps […]

EFCC freezes N6.4bn account linked to ex-minister

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Monday, April 18th, 2011

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has frozen an account of N6.4bn operated by a company linked to former Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Lawal, over an alleged fraud. The account operated in a new generation bank by Digital Tolls Limited was frozen on Monday April 18, on the instruction of the EFCC Chairman, […]

AYC: Nigeria defeat defending World Champion Ghana 2-1

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports Monday, April 18th, 2011

Holders Ghana got off to a bad start at the African Youth Championship (AYC) when they were defeated 2-1 by arch rivals Nigeria on Monday. Innocent Uche Nwafor scored both goals for the Flying Eagles in Group B to secure their first ever win over the Black Satellites. The Enugu Rangers attacker put Nigeria in […]

Suspected assassins storm Sapele hospital

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Monday, April 18th, 2011

WARRI – A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stalwart in Delta State, Dr John Akwara, escaped death by the whiskers, at Sapele in Delta State, when some suspected assassins, wearing camouflage army, stormed his hospital at Macpherson Road at about 8.00 p.m to kill him. The suspected assassins, numbering five, besieged the hospital shortly after Dr. […]

Professionals decry insecurity in the South East

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Saturday, April 16th, 2011

A group under the aegis of South-East and South-South Professionals, on Thursday said that the spate of insecurity in the two zones of the country “has remained a cog in the wheel of progress in the area.” The body, made up of professionals in various fields of human endeavour, stated that no society in […]

ASUU condemns assault on employee by UNILORIN authorities

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, April 16th, 2011

The Ilorin, Kwara State zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has condemned the assault allegedly carried out on one of its members, Mr. Suraju Ogedengbe, by the authorities of the University of Ilorin, last Wednesday. The coordinator of ASUU in the zone, Dr. Pius Enikanselu, in a statement in Akure on Thursday, […]

Western Union Fraud: Two bank officials arraigned, granted bail

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, April 15th, 2011

Two officials of Skye Bank Plc, Agodi, Ibadan branch, have been arraigned before a chief magistrate’s court on a three-count charge of forgery and stealing. According to the charge, the bank officials, Funmi Adekanbi and Adebukola Ademola, were accused of conspiring to commit felony including forgery and stealing, thereby committing an offence contrary to […]

Picture:16yr-old pupil found hanging at kankon model college

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, April 15th, 2011

Ejiofor While the SS3 pupils of the Government Model College, Kankon, Badagry, Lagos, write their West African School Certificate exams this year, one person – Richard Ejiofor – will be marked absent at the examination hall. The 16-year-old science pupil was discovered hanging from an uncompleted building in the school last week. I was at […]