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Gunmen kill Anyiam-Osigwe, Lagos businessman

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, December 1st, 2014

Anyiam-Osigwe | credits: File copy Suspected armed robbers have killed a Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Michael Anyiam-Osigwe. The late Michael was until his death, the Co-ordinator General of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation and a member of its Board of Trustees. His father, Emmanuel, was reputed as one of the first Nigerian investors in the oil […]

Abia govt raises the alarm over violence plot

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Friday, November 28th, 2014

As the ruling Peoples Democratic Party has concluded arrangements to conduct primary election for its House of Assembly aspirants nationwide, the Abia State Government has raised the alarm over alleged plots by “certain elements” to cause mayhem in the state. Special Political Adviser to Governor Theodore Orji, Chief Ama Abraham, who raised the alarm at […]

Nobody can justify police invasion of National Assembly –Shittu

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Senate Friday, November 28th, 2014

Wahab Shittu A lawyer and human rights activist, Wahab Shittu, in this interview with FISAYO FALODI speaks on the Boko Haram insurgency ravaging some parts of Nigeria and other current political issues Given the refusal of the Boko Haram insurgents to stop their hostility against the country, do senators’ opposition to the President’s request for […]

Fayose blasts Obasanjo for criticising Jonathan (After money exchanges hand, you will be blasting Jonathan)

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), State News Friday, November 28th, 2014

Ayo FayoseThe Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayo Fayose, flayed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for allegedly criticising Jonathan’s administration on corruption and insecurity. Fayose, who spoke at a summit in Ife, said that Obasanjo had no moral justification to criticise Jonathan’s administration because the former President’s government was far more corrupt than the one he criticised. […]

Seven drug traffickers nabbed on one flight excrete 8.7kg cocaine

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, November 28th, 2014

Seven drug traffickers Forty-nine-year-old Fred Obi was about to board an Ethiopian Air flight from Abuja to Tel Aviv, Israel with a strange cargo allegedly concealed in his stomach when the law caught up with him. He had ingested 1.594kg of cocaine. But he was not the only one boarding that same flight with […]

Tambuwal asks court to jail IG for contempt

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Nigerian Police Friday, November 28th, 2014

Speaker, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal | credits: File copy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to summon the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, to explain why he should not be jailed for disobeying the court order. Tambuwal accused Abba of consistently disobeying the court […]

US Immigration discriminates against Africans –John Eluwa, Nigerian born U.S Immigration Law Attorney

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Friday, November 28th, 2014

John Eluwa, Nigerian born U His office sits at the ninth floor of an upscale high rise building located in the middle of an emerging mega metropolis of Carolina. Here, Attorney John Eluwa, a once Biafra child soldier, heads one of the most successful law firms in the States. His story is an inspirational […]

Five soldiers, 35 others feared killed in Adamawa explosion

Posted by admin Adamawa, Armed Forces, Headlines, State News Thursday, November 27th, 2014

By Umar Yusuf.No fewer than 35 people including five military personnel and a local hunter were reported to have been killed by a bomb explosion Thursday morning around Mararaba-Mubi area of Adamawa State.Eyewitness told Newsmen in Yola, the state capital that a combined team of the military and local hunters on routine patrol of the […]

Togolese soccer star, Emmanuel Adebayor, denies kicking his mother out of home due to witchcraft

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, November 21st, 2014

-Sun Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor has rejected claims that he has booted his mother out of his house in Africa because he thought that she was practicing witchcraft. The Togolese forward, who is rumoured to be earning around £100,000 a week at Spurs, has been accused by his sister Maggie of refusing to give […]

Naira falls to record low as Nigeria stocks decline

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, November 21st, 2014

The nation’s currency, the naira, continued its falling spree yesterday as it went down 1.2 percent to N176 per dollar, making the fourth day of decline. This is against N174.15 that it exchanged the previous day. The Nigerian Stock Exchange All Share Index (ASI) also lost 2.1 percent to 33,428.76 in the worst performance among […]