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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
A court in Cameroon has jailed for life the former head of the defunct national carrier Camair, Yves Michel Fotso, on conviction of embezzling almost $56 million, legal sources said Tuesday. Fotso, already sentenced to 25 years behind bars in a separate graft case, “took the rap for life,” said a source close to the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
•Expect more criminals—Okada riders •Why we want them off Lagos roads Govt By Mike Ebonugwo, Theodore Opara, Olasunkanmi Akoni&Bose Adelaja Time was 6pm at the traffic-busy, indeed chaotic, Mile 2 area of Lagos. A mammoth horde of fuel tankers and other articulated trucks has as usual taken over every inch of driving space, thus impeding […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
Catholic church,11 houses burnt It’s a national issue, not ethnic —OKOROCHA Cattle owners, not herdsmen, should be questioned—OHANAEZE By Emeka Mamah, Clifford Ndujihe, Chidi Nkwopara & Chinenyeh Ozor NSUKKA—About 40 persons have so far been reportedly killed by some Fulani herdsmen at Nimbo in Uzo- Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, sources told Vanguard […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
The Kaduna State Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), on Tuesday, attributed the accident that claimed the lives of six Ekiti State medical doctors to over speeding. The Sector Head of Operations, Deputy Corps Commander, Salisu Galadunci stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. FRSC-operatives […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
A French court on Tuesday sentenced a Dutch dentist to eight years in jail for deliberately mangling his patients’ mouths in a case which saw him dubbed “the dentist of horror”. Jacobus van Nierop, 51, went on trial in March for ripping out healthy teeth and leaving dozens of patients with injuries including broken jaws, […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, April 26th, 2016
Nigerian Civil Society Groups and youth organizations have slammed the the Chris Giwa- led faction of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), over what they described as his recalcitrant attitude in the leadership crisis of the nation’s apex football governing body. Pinnick-Giwa They said Giwa’s attitude is capable of jeopardizing the Nigerian football. Converging under the aegis […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Monday, April 25th, 2016
The Nigeria Medical Association has confirmed that six doctors traveling to Sokoto state for its Annual General Conference died in a car accident along the Abuja-Kaduna Express Way on Sunday. According to a statement issued yesterday by it’s National President, Kayode Obembe, the deceased were all members of the Ekiti Chapter of the association. This […]
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Education, Headlines
Monday, April 25th, 2016
LASU sacks 19 staff over WAEC result falsification, abscondment — 25th April 2016 By Gabriel Dike No few than 19 staff of the Lagos State University (LASU) have been dismissed from service for falsification of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) O’ level result which they use to gain employment. Another reason for the sack […]
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Corruption Politics, Headlines, Kogi, State News, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (2007-10)
Monday, April 25th, 2016
-Punch Ramon Oladimeji A Federal High Court in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital on Monday convicted a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Gabriel Daudu, of money laundering and sentenced him to two years imprisonment. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a judgment on Monday, found Daudu guilty on 77 out of the 208 […]
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Headlines, Oil Politics
Monday, April 25th, 2016
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has announced that the Port Harcourt Refining Company and the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company are now producing a combined volume of seven million litres of petrol daily. According to him, the PHRC now […]
