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Headlines, Kwara, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Kwara State Government yesterday, announced the immediate closure of a private hospital in the metropolis over a suspected Ebola virus contamination. Announcing the closure of the hospital, the Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Public Health, Professor Sunday Opabola, and his counterpart on Secondary Health, Dr Ibrahim Gambari, said the seven […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 22-year-old security guard, identified as Gideon Musa, for raping a nine-year-old girl to death in the state capital. According to reports, the suspect, who is a guard near the victim’s house, took the teenager to a nearby bush and raped her to death. However, father of the […]
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Enugu, Headlines, State News
Friday, August 15th, 2014
By Tony Edike, Enugu A section of those in the Enugu State governemnt are determined to see the back of the incumbent deputy governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi. Their scheme has been dubbed the Chicken Impeachment given the extent the antagonsits of the deputy governor have gone to fetch charges against him. THE ongoing impeachment proceeding […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014
•The suspected robbers | credits: Photo: Olaleye Aluko Two suspected armed robbers, Sikiru Oyebamiji and Afeez Salami, arrested by the Lagos State Police Command, said robbing people was more profitable than their legal job. The duo was arrested in the Mushin area of Lagos and also found with a locally-made pistol. They were nabbed […]
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Headlines, INEC Politics, Osun, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Senator Iyiola Omisore The The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said that his loss at the Saturday election is due to the malpractices perpetrated by a former Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state. Omisore, who said this in a statement on Monday, claimed that although […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
| credits: Photo: Samson Folarin A medical doctor has revealed how a nursing mother contracted the deadly Ebola virus at a Lagos hospital. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman was the patient who visited the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation staff clinic on Muri Okunola Street in the Victoria Island area of Lagos. NNPC had issued […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Spanish emergency services picked up 470 immigrants travelling in dozens of rafts across the Strait of Gibraltar on Tuesday and 227 from the same stretch of water the day before, a spokesman for the Maritime Safety Agency said. More than 75,000 have tried to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa, landing in Italy, Greece, Spain […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
By Our Reporter on August 12, 2014 · Entertainment, Trending (LOS ANGELES/CALIFORNIA, U.S) Robin Williams, the versatile actor whose madcap comic style made him one of television and film’s biggest stars, was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California. He was 63. The comedian’s appeal stretched across generations […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
The suspect, a lady, was said to have been instantly chased out of the hospital by nurses on duty. Sources in the hospital told journalists that the frail looking lady had blood oozing from her nostrils and mouth. The discovery led to commotion in the area as the lady was told to go to the […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
By MONICA IHEAKAM on August 12, 2014 · Sports Ahead of their August 13 last group game against England, Nigeria’s Falconets on Monday arrived Edmonton, one of the cities hosting the Canada 2014 FIFA U-20 women’s world Cup. The team, which flew aboard a Canada North Airline, is camped at the Delta Edmonton South Hotels […]
