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Enugu: The story of the chicken impeachment

Posted by admin 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 […]

Robbery pays more than our jobs, say suspects

Posted by admin 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 […]

Omisore blames INEC for defeat, heads for tribunal

Posted by admin 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 […]

How Lagos nursing mother contracted Ebola virus – Doctor

Posted by admin 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 […]

Spanish coastguards pick up almost 700 African migrants in two days

Posted by admin 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 […]

Comic virtuoso Robin Williams dead at 63 from apparent suicide

Posted by admin 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 […]

Nurses chase suspected Ebola patient out of hospital

Posted by admin 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 […]

FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup: Falconets hit Edmonton for England

Posted by admin 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 […]

Police arrest man over murder, sex with dead women in Ebonyi

Posted by admin Ebonyi, Headlines, State News Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

By Jeff Amechi Agbodo, Abakaliki Monday, August 11, 2014 Police have arrested a 20-year-old man, Chukwuma (surname withheld), who allegedly specialised in killing women and having sex with their dead bodies in Ebonyi State.The suspect allegedly killed three women along farm pathways in the area and had sex with them. The state Police Public Relations […]

In pictures: Ebola: Nigerians go comical?

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, August 11th, 2014

THE scourge of the Ebola virus in Nigeria has thrown up a lot of issues. Aside government’s spirited efforts to contain the spread of the virus, there have been a rise in weird and comical angles to it on the social media. DAMOLA ADEOYE picks up some of them. WITH […]