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Abia, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
A man in his early 20’s yesterday met his untimely death in Aba, Abia state, when he was pushed down from a moving commercial bus, and eventually crushed by another commercial bus that was coming from behind. Sunday Sun learnt that the young man whose identity could not be immediately ascertained had boarded the commercial […]
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Headlines
Monday, August 18th, 2014
The simplification of banking services by technology has brought with it some hazards, including online frauds, OZIOMA UBABUKOH writes on the increasing rate of tampering with customers’ funds by bank employees Cases of internal online fraud committed by bank employees have been on the rise lately, The PUNCH has learnt. Our correspondent gathered that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, August 18th, 2014
Health inspectors at work | credits: www.globapost.com Thousands of Nigerians admitted into United Kingdom universities appear sure to face tough health screening as their campuses have been placed on the alert for the danger posed by the Ebola Virus Disease. According to The Independent on Sunday, the alert by Universities UK, the umbrella body […]
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Headlines, Nasarawa, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 18, 2014 · Breaking News, Trending (LAFIA) Palpable tension has gripped Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, after the Peoples Democratic Party’s lawmakers in the state House of Assembly, who fled the state weeks ago, returned in a long vehicles of cars led by siren blaring outriders. The legislators, who fled […]
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Edo, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
• Anger, protests, as deceased’s friends point fingers at lawmaker • I’ve no hand in his death, says legislator Over the years, the Nigerian Police and other security agencies have had the challenge of having to unravel those behind a long list of cases of assassinations across the length and breadth of the country. […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
Osun State Government has declared that tourists from outside the state would not be allowed to participate in the forthcoming Osun Osogbo Festival scheduled for Friday. This, the government said, was part of measures to prevent the spread of Ebola virus to the state. Addressing a press conference in Osogbo, the state Commissioner for Information […]
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Anambra, Headlines, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
•The suspect •Remains of Mrs. Ucheagwu Twenty-nine-year-old Ekene Ucheagwu, a native of Ndikpa Awuka Ogbunka, Orumba South Local Government Area, Anambra State, who allegedly committed an abominable act is now gnashing his teeth in the custody of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Anambra State Police Command. Ekene kidnapped his 65-year-old mother, Agnes, strangled […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
By FROM EMMANUEL ADEYEMI, LOKOJA on August 17, 2014 · COVER Tears flowed freely as people beheld the pathetic sight of a middle-aged nursing mother whose three-month old baby was thrown into the bush while an eight-man gang of devilish souls raped her to a point of unconsciousness right in the presence of her husband. […]
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Headlines
Monday, August 18th, 2014
Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, a Senior Consultant of First Consultant hospital, Lagos, who was infected with the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by the Liberian- American carrier, Patrick Sawyer, has made a miracle recovery and has been discharged from the Isolation centre in Lagos. She was the first person that contracted the disease from Sawyer. -Sunwp_posts
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Monday, August 18th, 2014
The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Confederation of African Athletics (CAA) to establish a training centre, the first of its kind in Africa. It will be located at the University of Port Harcourt. This partnership entered on behalf of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), […]