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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, […]

Jonathan Lacks The Will To Solve N’Delta Problems – Princewill

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

Prince Tonye Princewill was a gubernatorial candidate of the ACN in the 2007 general elections in Rivers State. In this interview with James Ume he spoke with a burning passion about the Niger-Delta region and the amnesty programme. He also explains why he has chosen to support a Northern candidate in the person of Atiku […]

Nigeria Lost $400b To Corruption In 40 Years – Bankole

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole, yesterday revealed that Nigeria lost between $400 billion and $436 billion to corruption within its first 40 years as a nation. Bankole gave this at the national youth summit held yesterday at the International Conference Centre, with the title: “Towards Effective Mobilisation of Nigerian Youth for […]