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Adamawa on fire: Boko Haram sacks police station, prison

Posted by admin Adamawa, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Fighting between Nigerian troops and Boko Haram insurgents escalated in Mubi, Mararaba Mubi and Uba in Adamawa State on Wednesday. Casualty figures could not be obtained as of 8pm but the development forced the state government to impose 24-hour curfew on the affected communities. Our correspondents gathered that Mubi, the second largest town in the […]

Nigeria attempt to avoid lengthy Fifa suspension

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, October 30th, 2014

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport, Lagos Nigeria hope to have avoided a lengthy ban from Fifa after a regional high court overturned its recent decision to void last month’s football elections. Fifa had given Nigeria until Friday to reverse last week’s ruling by the Jos High Court that annulled the 30 September election of Amaju […]

Rivers 2015: Bonny people insist it’s their turn

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

•Say we’re not political underdogs By Clifford Ndujihe THE BONNY people of Rivers State are making strong claims to the governorship of the state after Governor Rotimi Amaechi in 2015 because they are the most politically marginalized part of the state. Noting that the people had never produced governor, deputy governor, speaker, deputy speaker, chief […]

Court decides on NFF case today

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

ustice Ambrose Allagoa of the Federal High Court sitting in Jos yesterday adjourned to today, to rule in the case of preliminary objection filed by the counsel to the Nigeria Football Federation, Damon Dashen. The court had ruled on the 23 October nullifying the Warri General Assembly and the subsequent elective congress that brought in […]

Ogun, Bayelsa, three others to get airports ( Have you maintained the ones you have now?)

Posted by admin Aviation, Bayelsa, Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Five domestic airports will be constructed in the capital cities of Bayelsa, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa and Ogun states, the Federal Government has said. The government said the plan to construct airports in Yenegoa, Brini Kebbi, Lokoja, Lafia and Abeokuta was to ensure easy movement of passengers and cargoes across the states. The Minister of Aviation, […]

Pornography finds home at motor parks

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

There is no dull moment at Obalende Motor Park. Almost every time of the day, there is a beehive of activities at the park. Voices from rickety loud speakers mounted on commercial buses alternate between lewd music and frenetic calls for passengers. But the first gains go to roving petty traders who hawk chilled soft […]

Boko Haram raped, beat us – Abducted girls (They will rot in hell)

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

He soon began to threaten me with a knife to have sex with him and when I refused, he brought out his gun, warning that he would kill me if I shouted. “Then he began to rape me every night … I had never had sex before; it was very painful and I cried bitterly […]

I have no hands in Oyo PDP crisis – First Lady

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Oyo, Patience Jonathan, State News Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Ben Agande, Abuja. The first Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has said that she is neither an elected official of government nor a member of the leadership of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party as such could not have directed that a former governor of Oyo state, Rasheed Ladoja be accomodated by the party in the state. […]

UN warns Spain against migrant deportations

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, United Nations Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The UN on Tuesday warned Spain over plans to instantly deport migrants who clamber over the border fence into its north African territories, saying Madrid could end up breaking international law. “UNHCR is concerned over a proposal by Spain to legalise automatic returns of people trying to cross border fences into its enclaves of Ceuta […]

116 persons died in Synagogue Church building collapse – pathologist –

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Ikeja – A Consultant Pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa, on Tuesday said that 116 persons died in the Sept.12 when a guest, owned by the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), collapsed in Lagos. Obafunwa, who is the Chief Medical Examiner of Lagos State, made this known while presenting a preliminary report to a Coroner’s inquest […]