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(Pictures) Fire guts Balogun Market, sawmill, houses in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, January 12th, 2015

Scenes of the fire incidents | credits: Samson Folarin and Esther Olajide Tragedy struck in Lagos State on Sunday and Monday as multiple fire incidents occurred in different parts of the state, taking a life and destroying property. The fire razed Balogun Market on the Lagos Island, Oko Baba Sawmill in Ebute Meta and four […]

Summon Agbaje for questioning, group tells DSS

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, January 12th, 2015

Jimi Agbaje A civil rights group, Centre for Rights and Grassroots Initiative, has urged the Department of State Service and other security agencies to summon the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, over a warning he gave last week. Agbaje had warned that some elements in the oil rich South-South region […]

150, not 2,000 died in Baga attacks –Military (Full of lies and deception)

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Borno, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News Monday, January 12th, 2015

Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade | credits: www.ynaija.com The Defence authorities have faulted the claim that over 2,000 people were killed in the Boko Haram attack on Baga, the headquarters of the Multi-National Joint Task Force on January 3. The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, said this during a press […]

First ladies don’t spend government money – Jonathan (Whose money do they spend then?)

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan Monday, January 12th, 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan has said that occupants of the offices of the first lady across the nation “are not spending government money,” even though the platform has become veritable means of mobilising women for national development. The President’s position was a response to the complaints on social media that the offices constitute unnecessary burden to […]

Boko Haram crisis: Niger ‘will not help retake’ town of Baga

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines Friday, January 9th, 2015

Baga has been the scene of fierce fighting before, including in April 2013 as seen here Niger has said it will not be involved in any attempt to retake the key north-east Nigerian town of Baga from the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram. Bodies reportedly lay strewn on the streets of the town following an […]

Father charged as girl, five, thrown off US bridge

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Friday, January 9th, 2015

A Florida man has been charged with murder after police say he threw his five-year-old daughter off a bridge in St Petersburg. A police officer saw the incident after he followed John Jonchuck Jr, 25, for speeding, Chief Anthony Holloway said. The girl, who was dropped into 60ft (18m) of water, was found about an […]

2015 Glo CAF Awards: Toure floors Enyeama

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, January 9th, 2015

By Solomon Nwoke Ivory Coast and Manchester City of England play maker, Yaya Toure has claimed the 2014 Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year award, thus winn-ing it for the fourth straight time, since 2011. The Ivorian midfielder who is 1.88 meters tall was born in Bouake in May, 1983. He has over 85 caps […]

Education Sector in 2014: Dons score govt below average

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Friday, January 9th, 2015

Like any other year, the year 2014 would have started on a promising note for the education sector but for the almost half the year ASUU strike in 2013 occasioned by the Federal Government’s insensitivity to the sector at tertiary level. This, set the tone for the sector in 2014. Former Executive Secretary, National Universities […]

FG clueless about insecurity, power, others —FASHOLA (Old news)

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, January 9th, 2015

Lagos—Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday said the Federal Government was clueless about the challenges confronting the country. Fashola made the statement at the commissioning of the Cooperative Home Ownership Incentive Scheme, CHOIS City at Agbowa, Ikosi in Ejirin Local Council Development Area, LCDA, and the first Solar-powered Primary Health Care, PHC, centre, Epe. […]

Who will save the nation and rescue the Naira?

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, January 9th, 2015

I must apologise to my readers for absconding from my weekly assignment without due notice. I went in search of better sight and improved hearing. Though I can now see and hear a little bit better. I must confess that my sight is being blurred by the devastation of Boko-Haram bombs and my ears are […]