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Two to die by hanging for killing Cynthia Osokogu

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Ramon Oladimeji A Lagos State High Court in Igbosere on Thursday convicted Okwumo Nwabufo and Olisaeloka Ezike who were charged with the murder of a postgraduate student of Nasarawa State University, Cynthia Osokogu. Following their coviction, the trial judge, Justice Olabisi Akinlade, ordered that Nwabufo and Ezike should be hung by the neck until they […]

Picture: Kano anti-graft agency seizes ex-commissioner’s hospital

Posted by admin Corruption Politics, Headlines, Kano, State News Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Sealed: New Age Diabetic Clinic Dorayi Babba, owned by former Kano State Commissioner for Health, sealed by Kano State Public Complaints And Anti-Corruption Commission he Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission has sealed a hospital belonging to a former Commissioner for Health in the state over alleged theft of 533,000 dollars (about N163 million). […]

Dino Melaye’s certificates scandal deepens

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, Legislature, Senate, State News Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Dayo Oketola, Gbenro Adeoye and Tunde Ajaja The qualification scandal that has enveloped the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District at the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, has deepened. Documents obtained exclusively by Saturday PUNCH through painstaking and thorough investigations showed that the embattled senator has a Bachelor of Arts certificate in […]

Fans hail Super Eagles 1-1 draw against Senegal

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Football enthusiasts in Enugu have applauded Thursday’s 1-1 draw in the international friendly match between Super Eagles and Teranga Lions of Senegal. The enthusiasts said in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday that Nigeria’s national team was gradually bouncing back to reckoning in Africa and the world. They however expressed regret […]

Chimamanda Adichie makes list of 50 world leaders

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie has been named amongst the 50 greatest world leaders in the 2017 Fortune magazine ranking. The ‘Half of a yellow sun’ writer was ranked at number 42 on the list with Chicago Cubs baseball team president Theo Epstein at number one. Business mogul Jack Ma of AliBaba group of companies appears […]

Picture: Udotong, Nigerian wizkid, builds first Nuclear Fusor

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 25th, 2017

Nigerian teenager, Steven Udotong, has invented a nuclear energy fusor, making him the first black student to attain such feat. A fusor is a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to suitable condition for nuclear fusion. The machine generates an electric potential difference between two metal cages inside a vacuum. Udotong, a […]

Imo: Native doctor who buys used condoms from prostitute dies during sex romp

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Tuesday, March 21st, 2017

By Chidi Nkwopara, OWERRI. A native doctor identified has reportedly died, while having a sex romp with an alleged prostitute in a brothel at Anara, Isiala Mbano local council area of Imo State. Vanguard gathered that the late native doctor, hailed from Ehime Mbano local government area, also of Imo State, “was having a good […]

Odemwingie set to join Essien in Indonesian league

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, March 20th, 2017

Former Nigeria international striker Peter Osaze Odemwingie is reported to be on verge of becoming the next high-profile African star after Michael Essien to move to the Indonesian Liga 1. Odemwingie According to media reports in Nigeria, the former Stoke City striker has signed a pre-contract agreement with Madura United and will be unveiled later […]

Police arraign Apostle Suleiman’s accusers: Stephanie Otobo, others for blackmail

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion, Top Stories, Women Politics Monday, March 20th, 2017

By Onozure Dania Lagos—The Police yesterday arraigned a lady, Stephanie Otobo, 23, who claimed to have had affair with Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the President and founder of Omega Fire Ministry Worldwide before a Tinubu Magistrate’s court Lagos, over alleged intent to steal, and blackmail. Stephanie Otobo and Apostle Joshua Suleiman Otobo was charged alongside Wisdom […]

Chinese, Nigerian remanded over N5bn imported substandard tyres

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, March 20th, 2017

Ramon Oladimeji The Federal High Court in Lagos, on Monday, ordered that two Chinese and a Nigerian, who were accused of importing substandard automobile tyres worth about N5bn into the country, be remanded in prison. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun made the remand order shortly after the accused persons were arraigned before her on four counts. The […]