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Texas Ebola patient in critical condition

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

The first person diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus on US soil is faring worse and now in critical condition, health officials said Saturday, having previously described him as seriously ill. “Mr. Duncan is in critical condition,” the Texas hospital treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who traveled from Liberia to Texas in late September, said in a brief […]

Waiting for Pastor WF Kumiyi

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, October 4th, 2014

BY BANJI OJEWALE The people of Kumasi in Ghana did not wait for too long for the much anticipated visit of Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi from Nigeria. Kumuyi-1In 1973, he had been used by God to set up a Bible Study Group that had radicalized Christianity in a country just crawling from an internecine civil […]

In Pictures: In Kaduna, half nude women confront Gov. Yero

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Saturday, October 4th, 2014

By Luka Binniyat Around 10am penultimate Monday, armed men followed Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State in a convoy of vehicles. The wailing convoy snaked its way from Kaduna metropolis towards southern Kaduna. Yero and his entourage were on their way to Fadan Karshi, in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State to pay a […]

Senator Causes Stir Over Dollar Spray at Sister’s Funeral

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Imo, Legislature, Senate, State News Saturday, October 4th, 2014

From Ignatius Okpara, Awka Senator Hope Uzodinma, representing Orlu senatorial district of Imo state, on Friday narrowly escaped mob action as he splashed dollars at the funeral of his younger sister, Professor Josephine Anagbogu in Anambra. It took the intervention of security operatives to disperse army of youths who almost mobbed the legislator, while he […]

Fayose led thugs to beat judges, CJ tells NJC (Fayose – Once a thug always a thug)

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

Mr. Ayodele Fayose The Chief Judge of Ekiti State, Justice Ayodeji Daramola, has tabled before the National Judicial Council ahead of the council’s meeting scheduled for Thursday, a petition accusing the state’s Governor-elect, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, and the police of complicity in the attack on judges and court workers in the state last week. A […]

Picture: Suspected diesel thief dies on electric fence in Jos

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Tuesday, September 30th, 2014

by Olaleye Aluko Ad by Websteroids Aboy A man, suspected to have attempted stealing diesel from a compound, died on Monday morning after he was electrocuted by an electric barbed fence. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect, Mr. John Aboy, was killed on Dagin Farouk Road, Jos, Plateau State. The incident was […]

Opinion: Our independence of corruption (Indeed)

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, September 29th, 2014

WE are celebrating another independence day, the same ritual; razzmatazz and demonstrations. Speeches. Promises and promises, all of the same, so much motion but no movement. Fela calls it “perambulating and still remaining on the same spot”. We have seen it all, as it was in the beginning- 1960, so it is now, nothing has […]

2015: Amaechi urges Rivers people to elect credible successor (Which they have not seen in decades)

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, September 29th, 2014

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has called on Rivers people to choose a credible person to succeed him on May 29, next year. Amaechi, at an inter-denominational church service to mark the 54th Independence Day Anniversary held at the St. Cyprians Anglican Church in Port Harcourt, said that the era of imposition of candidates on the […]

Nigerians, boycott Egypt Air: Egypt Air Saga: It’s time our govt stood up for us, Joshua’s mother cries to FG

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, September 27th, 2014

By FLORENCE AMAGIYA, JULIET EBIRIM & AKEEM SALAU A 17 year old Nigerian medical student, Joshua Kunle Abdulazeez, returning to school in Ukraine, recently gave an account of how he nearly died at the hands of Egypt Air officials who wrongly routed him to Moldova, never gave him food for days, treated him like a criminal, calling Nigerians bloody […]

Kidnapping Saga: Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, release Fejiro Oliver now.

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger, State News Saturday, September 27th, 2014

By Michael Joseph Kidnapping Saga: Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu, Release Fejiro Oliver Now. For the past three days, friends and family members of an online journalist and human right activist, Mr Fejiro Oliver have become concerned about his whereabouts after he was invited for a civic meeting by the Niger State SSG, Mr Saidu Kpaki. Mr. […]