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Eagles will qualify for AFCON – Musa (Qualify first before boasting)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Ahmed Musa Super Eagles forward, Ahmed Musa, is confident Nigeria will qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations to be hosted by Gabon. The 2013 AFCON winners failed to defend their title when they failed to qualify for the 2015 edition as South Africa and Congo beat them to the qualification tickets. Nigeria […]

Bomb threat prompts White House press room evacuation

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

The White House press room was evacuated over a bomb threat after a phone call alerted the Metropolitan Police Department, White House Spokesman , Josh Earnest, said on Tuesday. The Secret Service interrupted White House spokesman Josh Earnest’s televised news briefing shortly after 2 p.m. and escorted journalists out of the building. While journalists […]

Pakistan hangs an innocent Christian man ‘tortured’ into confessing murder at 15

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Pakistan on Wednesday executed a man who rights groups say was tortured into confessing to a murder committed more than two decades ago, when he was still a minor, prison officials said. “Aftab Bahadur Masih, a Christian man, was hanged in Kot Lakhpat prison of Lahore Wednesday morning,” an official at the jail told AFP […]

UK deports Pakistani student despite ‘risk to life’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Authorities in the UK have deported a Balochi student to Pakistan, despite a last-ditch attempt to prevent his removal by campaigners who said he faces death or imprisonment. Activists said Majid Ali, who was deported late on Tuesday, applied for asylum in the UK in 2011 claiming his Balochi nationalist activities put him at risk […]

Unpaid salaries: Osun pensioners protest, lament members’ deaths

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Retired workers under the aegis of the Nigerian Union of Pensioners in Osun State on Wednesday staged a public protest over the non payment of their pensions for the past seven months. The Chairman of NUP in the state, Dr. J.A. Olunlade, in the speech he circulated to journalists lamented the death of many of […]

Punish Saraki, Dogara– Lagos APC

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Lagos, Party Politics, State News Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Tinubu, Odigie-Oyegun and Buhari The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has urged the national leadership of the party to punish the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, for anti-party activities. Lagos APC, in a statement by its publicity secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, […]

Court dismisses N19bn fraud case against ex-gov Sylva

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed N19.2bn fraud charges filed against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva. The judge held that the charges amounted to abuse of court process. -Vanguardwp_posts

Police recover 10 stolen Rivers govt vehicles

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

ADVERTISEMENT Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase DETERMINED to get back government property looted from the Government House in Port Harcourt, security operatives on Monday evening recovered 10 vehicles allegedly stolen by officials of the immediate past administration in the state. The vehicles were recovered from two locations identified as Rumuokparali and Trans-Amadi […]

Tinubu’s wife snubs Saraki, Lawan takes oath of office

Posted by admin Headlines, Legislature, National Politics, Senate, Top Stories, Uncategorized Wednesday, June 10th, 2015

Senator Oluremi Tinubu | credits: File copy ADVERTISEMENT Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday administered oath of office and allegiance on Ahmad Lawan and 27 other All Progressives Congress senators who were absent at the formal inauguration of the Eighth Senate. The senators were gathered at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, waiting […]

Over 120 escape death as Aero aircraft develops fault mid-air

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Saturday, June 6th, 2015

Over 120 passengers, including the Director, Muslim Rights Concern, Prof. Ishaq Akintola, on Friday evening escaped death as an Aero Contractors Airline Flight 180 from Lagos to Kaduna developed technical fault mid-air. The aircraft was said to have suddenly lost altitude, 20 minutes after it departed the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, […]