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Opinion: Is President Buhari an especially upright leader?

Posted by admin Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency Saturday, April 2nd, 2016

Is President Buhari an especially upright leader? — 31st March 2016 LET us not waste anybody’s time with intros. Rather let us go for the jugular: If the question: Is President Muhamadu Buhari, General, Retired, an especially upright person or leader is raised, the answer is and must be no, a capital no. Repeat, no. ‘The […]

Court adjourns Ikpeazu’s alleged tax certificate forgery to April 28

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Saturday, April 2nd, 2016

Court adjourns Ikpeazu’s alleged tax certificate forgery to April 28 — 2nd April 2016 FROM CHUKS ONUOHA, UMUAHIA. JUSTICE Musa Sale Shuaibu of the Federal High Court, Owerri, presiding over the suit filed by a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial aspirant, Barr. Friday N. Nwosu, challenging the election of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State over tax […]

Nigerians are suffering, Buhari must stop needless foreign trips –Fayose

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85, 2015 - 2023), Presidency, State News Saturday, April 2nd, 2016

Nigerians are suffering, Buhari must stop needless foreign trips –Fayose — 2nd April 2016 BY WOLE BALOGUN, ADO EKITI EKITI State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has called on well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on President Mohammadu Buhari to stop his needless foreign trips, describing the president’s trip to the United States of America on Wednesday for the 4th […]

BBC: Nigerian football flounders in the dark

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, April 1st, 2016

Nigeria have been floored by coaching and administration problems in the last couple of years Without question, Nigeria is one of Africa’s biggest and most successful football nations. As three-time African champions, the first African nation to win football gold at the Olympic Games and the most successful country at the Fifa U-17 World Cup […]

Obama: Expect more attacks from ISIS

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Friday, April 1st, 2016

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama said that as ISIS comes under greater international pressure in Syria and Iraq, the group will likely try to conduct more attacks elsewhere. “As ISIL is squeezed in Syria and Iraq, we can anticipate it lashing out elsewhere, as we’ve seen most recently and tragically in countries from Turkey to Brussels,” […]

Ekitigate: Lawmakers petition US, UK, IGP on intimidation

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Ekiti, Headlines, State News Friday, April 1st, 2016

Ekitigate: Lawmakers petition US, UK, IGP on intimidation — 1st April 2016 From: Godwin Tsa, Abuja The face-off between Ekiti State House of Assembly and the police took a new twist yesterday when the lawmakers sent a petition to the United Kingdon, the United States of America (USA) and the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase. They alleged […]

How to actualise Biafra without war

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Friday, April 1st, 2016

How to actualise Biafra without war — 1st April 2016 By Chukwuma Egemba In 1999, the flame of fire for Biafra restoration was re-started with the formation of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) by Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Uche Okwukwu, Prince Orjiako and others with the aim of securing the resurgence of Biafra independence and […]

Ambode orders repair of Lagos-Badagry Expressway

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, April 1st, 2016

Ambode orders repair of Lagos-Badagry Expressway — 1st April 2016 •Says $1.65bn Lekki seaport ready in 2019 By Oluwole Farotimi Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has ordered the Public Works Corporation (LSPWC) to immediately embark on extensive repair on the Lagos-Badagry Expressway in order to improve driving experience of motorists in the area. General Manager […]

Criticisms greet Fayose’s comment on Chibok girls

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Ekiti, Headlines, State News Friday, April 1st, 2016

Kamarudeen Ogundele and Toluwani Eniola Criticisms have trailed the outburst of Governor Ayodele Fayose on the abducted Chibok schoolgirls Fayose had said the abduction was not true, but a political instrument to vote out former President Goodluck Jonathan. While the Boko Haram group had shown the video of the over 200 girls in captivity, a […]

Driver, conductor rape Lagos job seeker

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, April 1st, 2016

Olaleye Aluko The police in Lagos have arrested a commercial bus driver, identified only as Akeem, and his conductor, Sodiq, for allegedly robbing and raping a 22-year-old lady in the Costain, Iponri area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that Akeem and Sodiq, along with two others still at large, had picked the victim, Mercy (pseudonym) […]