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Excess Crude Account Shrinks to $3m

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, January 1st, 2011

After an emergency meeting of the Federation Account Allocation Committee yesterday, the sum of $1billion was deducted from the Excess Crude Account and approved for distribution to the three tiers of government. Yesterday’s deduction has reduced the balance in the Excess Crude Account, created to provide succour in rainy days to only about $3 million. […]

BREAKING NEWS: Bomb explosion near barracks in Abuja – 11 killed

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Breaking News, Headlines, State News Friday, December 31st, 2010

At least 11 people have been killed in an explosion in a market near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, military sources have told the BBC. Witnesses say they saw injured people being carried away after the blast. The explosion happened in the Mammy market, where people had gathered to celebrate New Year’s Eve, reports […]

I am tired of working as housemaid-14-year-old girl

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, December 31st, 2010

When she was taken from her village in Iyin, Oji River area of Enugu State last October, the understanding was that 14-year-old Uchechukwu Oji, an SSS 1 student of Girls High School, Iyin, would continue her education in Lagos State where she would be staying with her aunt, identified simply as Mrs. Mba. Two months […]

Finally, remains of Barrister arrives Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The late Fuji maestro whose corpse would have been flown into the country for final burial according to Islamic injunction could not be flown in as a result of bad weather which has disrupted flights across Europe and America. THOUSANDS of friends, colleagues and family members on Thursday thronged the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos […]

20,000 Ijaw villagers under siege by soldiers, says group

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Thursday, December 30th, 2010

IJAW Youths Welfare Association, IYWA, has alerted the United Nations that over 20,000 residents of 11 communities in Burutu and Bomadi Local Government Areas of Delta State have been under siege by soldiers, deployed by the Joint Task Force, JTF, on the Niger-Delta, to their homelands for upwards one month in the search for wanted […]

2011: I’m ready for public debate – Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, Presidency Thursday, December 30th, 2010

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday said he would be ready to take on any presidential candidate in a public debate after emerging as the the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party. Jonathan, who made the pledge in Port Harcourt while addressing delegates from five PDP states in the South-South, explained that it would […]

I’ll neutralise PDP’s zoning formula –Jibril

Posted by admin Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday, December 30th, 2010

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant, Mrs Sarah Jibril, has said she is in the 2011 presidential race to neutralise the zoning controversy of the party. Jibril told newsmen in Abuja, on Wednesday, that she was a mother who understood the problem of Nigeria as above ethnicity and geo-political interests. “I am staying on […]

Jos crisis: NSCDC deploys additional 5,000 personnel

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Following the bomb blasts on Christmas eve which claimed many innocent lives in Jos, Plateau State, security has been beefed up with the deployment of additional 5,000 personnel of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), within and around the Jos metropolis and many other volatile areas of the state to forestall possible recurrence. […]

2011: Crises trail Pdp delegates’ elections

Posted by admin Elections 2011, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday, December 30th, 2010

The ongoing election of delegates of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the selection of its candidates in the 2011 elections has run into hitch in some states of the federation. Investigation by the Nigerian Tribune on Thursday, revealed that aggrieved aspirants across the states of the federation had been bombarding the national secretariat […]

Fewer reporters killed, more kidnapped in 2010

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, December 30th, 2010

A total of 57 journalists were killed while working in 2010, down from 76 last year, but kidnappings of reporters surged, media rights group, Reporters Without Borders, said on Thursday. Reporters Without Borders said the most dangerous country for journalists in the past year was Pakistan, where 11 were killed. Over the last decade, Pakistan, […]