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Isidore Okpewho, Foremost Literary Scholar, Dies

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 5th, 2016

A foremost scholar of Oral Literature and award-winning novelist, Isidore Okpewho, has died at 74. He was a prolific author, co-author and editor of about 14 books, dozens of articles and a seminal booklet, A Portrait of the Artist as a Scholar. Okpewho, a professor, died peacefully at a hospital in Binghamton, a town in […]

Opinion: Giving Credit to Whom It is Due

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 5th, 2016

Giving Credit to Whom It is Due By Tope Bankole and Uzoma Ngozi On July 26, the media was awash with news of the commissioning of the Abuja-Kaduna railway project. The news elicited a tweet from the PDP via their official twitter handle. This eventually sparked off a controversy on who should actually take the […]

Four Soldiers Feared Dead in Bayelsa Boat Accident

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Army, Bayelsa, Headlines Monday, September 5th, 2016

Emmanuel Addeh in Yenagoa Four soldiers attached to the Joint Task Force, JTF, Operation Delta Safe,ODS, who are currently carrying out an operation codenamed ‘Crocodile Smile’, to rid the Niger Delta of criminalities, were on Monday feared dead in the creeks of Bayelsa State. The loss of the security personnel, it was learnt, followed a […]

Lagos: Pastor turns teenage church girls to sex objects

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 5th, 2016

• Pastor Chukwuma Nwkocha By Evelyn Usman & Ebere Aham It was a shocking revelation yesterday at the Lagos State Police Command as three teenagers recounted how the General Overseer of Tongue of Fire Ministry, Shogunle, Lagos, Pastor Chukwuma Nkwocha, had been sleeping with them, in exchange for money to pay […]

How civil servants defraud state with multiple ATM cards —Shettima

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Thursday, September 1st, 2016

How civil servants defraud state with multiple ATM cards —Shettima — 2nd September 2016 Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima, has revealed how senior civil servants in the state colluded with commercial banks to defraud the state with the use of fake bank accounts. The governor said the fraudulent workers mobilised people to pose as civil […]

Man arrested for smuggling rice as dead bodies

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, September 1st, 2016

By Isaac Anumihe The ban on rice importation and biting economic conditions are forcing daring smugglers to freight bags of rice as coffins carried in ambulances. This unprecedented antic of moving rice in an ambulance under the guise of corpses from Benin Republic into Nigeria was uncovered yesterday at the Seme Border by the operatives […]

BREAKING: Another airline, First Nation suspends operations

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines, National Politics, Top Stories Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja Another domestic carrier, First Nation Airlines, has suspended its operations, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has said. This is coming in less than 24 hours after Aero Contractors Airlines, Nigeria’s second largest commercial carrier, announced an indefinite suspension of its scheduled flight services and its staff with effect from Thursday, September 1, […]

Brazil sacks President for budget padding (Nigeria take note)

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Budget, Headlines Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Brazil sacks President for budget padding – Dilma Rousseff Brazil’s Senate has voted in favour of permanently removing President Dilma Rousseff from her office, in an impeachment trial set to end 13 years of leftist rule in the country, Al Jazeera reports. Sixty-one of 81 senators voted against Rousseff on Wednesday after a five-day trial […]

We are aware of your pains, Buhari tells Nigerians (Your awareness will bring relief?)

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Lekan Adetayo and Femi Makinde, Osogbo President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he and members of his cabinet are aware of the pains Nigerians are going through. The President, who said ‘change’ was aimed at restoring the nation on the path of integrity and prosperity said this in Osogbo on Thursday at the inauguration of the […]

N’Korean president executes official for not sitting correctly at meeting

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, September 1st, 2016

Kim Jong-un North Korea has executed its education minister, Kim Yong-Jin, 63, because of his ‘bad sitting posture’ in parliament, according to reports. Before his execution in July, a south Korean official said topofficial was interrogated and found to be an ‘anti-revolutionary agitator’ . South Korea ’s unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said: “Vice premier […]