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US embassy unveils new visa system

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

The United States Mission in Nigeria has introduced a new visa appointment system for non-immigrant visa interview appointments, with effect from March 1, 2011. A statement issued on Tuesday by the Embassy said, “Applicants in Abuja and Lagos who wish to schedule a non-immigrant visa appointment should now do so via the new website http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng […]

Adedibu’s Will: Court adjourns till March 30

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

An Oyo State High Court in Ibadan on Tuesday fixed March 30 for the hearing of an application for an interlocutory injunction stopping the execution of the Will of the late chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Chief Lamidi Adedibu. Justice Akintunde Boade adjourned the case instituted by the Chief Executive Officer, […]

Relations move Baba Ijesa out of Ijaiye Hospital

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

Baba Ijesa Popular Yoruba comedian, Mr. James Omiyinka, popularly called Baba Ijesa, who was involved in an accident on Sunday, has been moved out of Ijaiye General Hospital, Abeokuta, Ogun State, at the request of his family members. The auto crash claimed the life of a 23-year-old lady, identified as Surat Shonekan. While the remains […]

NITEL’s debt now N208bn – BPE

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, March 1st, 2011

The Nigerian Telecommunications Limited currently owes over N208bn debt, the Director-General, Bureau of Public Enterprises, Ms. Bolanle Onagoruwa, has said. Onagoruwa disclosed this in a report she presented to the House of Representatives Committee on Communications on Tuesday. She said, “In order to determine the total indebtedness of the company, the Bureau advertised, requesting all […]

IYC crisis won’t threaten peace in N-Delta- Ijaw youths

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, February 28th, 2011

CHAIRMAN, Forum of Clan Chairmen, Ijaw Youth Council, Mr Dio Reuben, has assured that the crisis rocking the leadership of Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, would not lead to tension or chaos in the Niger Delta region. Speaking at the meeting of Clan Chairmen of IYC in Port Harcourt, Mr Dio said that the purported suspension […]

MOPOL officers kill Police Constable in Warri

Posted by admin Headlines, National Politics Monday, February 28th, 2011

FIVE men dressed in Moblie Police uniform, yesterday, morning shot dead one Police Constable, Felix Omale, attached to the “A” Division Police Headquarters, Warri, Delta State. A police patrol team from the “A” Division was at a nipping point along the Ekurede Itsekiri/NPA expressway when a black SUV with unknown plate number was flagged down […]

FG hospitals turn back patients in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Monday, February 28th, 2011

ENUGU — It was a tale of woes for patients in Lagos and Enugu yesterday as striking doctors were adamant to continue their strike. Patients who visited the three Federal Government-owned health institutions in Enugu yesterday for medication were turned back following a one-week sympathy strike embarked upon by the medical doctors. Ironically, some of […]

Protest against Arik’s flight delay

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 27th, 2011

Scores of Kaduna-bound passengers at the old domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Saturday, protested the delay of their flight by Arik Air. Eye witnesses said trouble started when the angry travellers insisted that the airline should compensate them for delaying the flight for no clear reason. Unconfirmed sources said some […]

Pirates now go for Nigeria’s little fish

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The crew of the Mareena 1 fishing trawler had finished hauling in their catch 25 kilometres off the coast and had settled into their bunks for a few hours of sleep when they were awakened by machine-gun fire. Nine heavily armed men in a speedboat were strafing their trawler. One of the bullets hit […]

Police arrest pastor, lady for defrauding students

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, February 26th, 2011

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested a pastor (name withheld), a lady and one other suspect for defrauding students of the Federal Clinic, Ado-Ekiti. The Police Public Relations Officer for the command, Mr. Mohammed Jimoh, who paraded the suspects at the police headquarters on Thursday, said that the female suspect identified simply as […]