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Okafor’s corpse released to family

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, January 13th, 2011

Uche Okafor’s corpse has been released to his family, it was revealed on Wednesday. Tunisia’94 Nations Cup winner Okafor reportedly committed suicide in the United States on Thursday. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office said he hanged himself in an upstairs hallway. But his family suspect foul play, denying the former Super Eagles defender committed […]

Police bar guns, grenades from Eagle Square

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, January 13th, 2011

The police authorities on Wednesday announced that guns, hand grenades and tear gas canisters would not be allowed into the Eagle Square, Abuja, venue of today’s presidential primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party. To ensure compliance with the security measure, a special task force, said the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, had been […]

DISTURBING PICTURE: Pastor’s wife raped & murdered in her bedroom

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Late Mrs Iwuchukwu More Stories on This Section Wife of the Pastor of Victory Baptist Church, Spiba Road, Akwakuma, in Owerri, Imo State, Mrs. Stella Ikpendu Iwuchukwu has met a gruesome death right in her bedroom. Mrs. Iwuchukwu was raped and strangled in her home by unknown persons suspected to be assassins. Her killers […]

Why we slowed down on certain corruption cases -EFCC

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, explained why it slowed down on certain corruption cases, stating that it is maintaining its neutrality and integrity, particularly towards the electoral process. The commission spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this while reacting to an advertorial entitled, “Jonathan Camp Goes For Broke, Co-opts Farida Waziri, Others” […]

Gays pledge support for Atiku

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Barely 24 hours to the conduct of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Primary election, gays, under the umbrella of National Gay Forum, have expressed support for former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The group urged Nigerians to support Atiku’s aspiration to rule the country, stressing that he possessed the acumen to turn the fortunes of […]

The List that Got Okey Ndibe Arrested

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

By Staff Reporter – New Nigerian Politics: Due to constant criticism of his government and its policies that brought it much disrepute and opprobrium in the international community, especially, in light of the fraudulent elections that brought it to power in 2007, the late President Umaru Yar’Adua in mid 2008 budgeted $5 million to gag online […]

2011: Court clears Atiku

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, January 10th, 2011

Former vice president Atiku Abubakar on Monday survived two-law suits seeking to stop his presidential ambition. In the first suit challenging the waiver giving to him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Justice Ishaq Bello in his judgment threw out the suit describing the plaintiff, Alhaji Sadiq Jada as a meddlesome interloper and busy body […]

Obasanjo’s superman syndrome

Posted by admin Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency Monday, January 10th, 2011

THERE is no doubt that the political career of former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has been one of the longest and most successful in Nigeria. Right from when he first entered national consciousness as the soldier who received the instrument of surrender from the defeated Biafran forces at the end of Nigeria’s Civil War, his rise […]

Oliseh mourns Okafor

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, January 10th, 2011

Former Nigeria international, Sunday Oliseh has described the death of his former team mate in the national team, Uche Okafor as a “very great loss to Nigerian football. Sunday Oliseh Speaking in an interview with BBC, the former Super Eagles attacking midfielder said, “”there is something a lot of people don’t talk about. In a […]

Tension as PDP Holds Primaries

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, January 10th, 2011

There was tension yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, as information filtered in that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed the primary election to pick the governorship candidate of the party in the April poll. But across the country, there was no upset as PDP governors won their tickets amidst protests from other aspirants […]