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Picture: Police rescue ‘bird woman’ from Lagos mob

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

The victim An elderly woman escaped lynching on Wednesday after being accused of being a bird and witch in the Ajegunle area of Lagos State. According to residents of Ojo Road, where the purported transformation took place, the woman was a black bird before suddenly turning into a human being. Hundreds of residents were said […]

Sani Kaita scores first goal for Enyimba

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, May 19th, 2014

by Idris Adesina Ad Info Sani Kaita advertisement Sani Kaita has scored his first goal for his new club, Enyimba, on Sunday in the 1-0 Week 13 win in the Nigeria Professional Football League match against Kaduna United at the Aba Township Stadium. The former Super […]

Fire destroys 120 shops in Lagos market

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, May 19th, 2014

OVER 120 shops were, early on Sunday, destroyed, and goods worth millions of naira razed as fire ravaged Daleko Market in Mushin area of Lagos. The arrival of fire fighters from Isolo, Ilupeju and Ikeja fire service stations prevented a total disaster as the market would have been completely razed by the ravaging fire. The […]

Youths on the rampage in Maiduguri •Over killings of civilian

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Monday, May 19th, 2014

THE relative peace in Maiduguri was, on Sunday, shattered, as youths took to the streets to protest the killing of a civilian at the West End area of the metropolis by a police officer. Nigerian Tribune in Maiduguri gathered that, the angry youth, in their hundreds, barricaded major roads in the area and also made […]

Police foil new attack, probe into deadly Kano blast

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Monday, May 19th, 2014

Nigeria police said on Monday that they thwarted a fresh attempt to detonate a car bomb in Kano, a day after a bombing killed four people in an area of the city attacked repeatedly by Boko Haram. “The police in Kano today… (at) about 9:00am (0800 GMT) averted what could have been another devastating bomb […]

7 feared dead in Port-Harcourt refinery fire

Posted by admin Headlines, Oil Politics, Rivers, State News Monday, May 19th, 2014

Dapo Falade – Port Harcourt with Agency Report SEVEN people were feared dead on Sunday morning during a fire explosion which occurred at the Okrika, Port Harcourt jetty of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This was as scores of others were said to have suffered severe degree of burnt during the fire incident, which […]

Northeast governors created Boko Haram – Son of Tafawa Belewa

Posted by admin Headlines, Tafawa Belewa (1960-66) Monday, May 19th, 2014

Dr Jeleel Tafawa Balewa is a son of the late first Prime Minister of Nigeria, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. He speaks on how Nigeria should handle the Boko Haram insurgency; the main problem facing the country and how he has been pressurised to contest the presidential election, among others. Excerpts: HOW would you introduce yourself […]

Boko Haram kills 29 in Borno, abducts 10 Chinese in Cameroon

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines Sunday, May 18th, 2014

Not less than 29 people were killed in an attack at a market in Ngurosoye village in Bama Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday. Sunday Tribune gathered on Saturday that the insurgents came in hundreds on motorcycles and six Hilux vans and began shooting sporadically as they threw rocket launchers on traders in […]

Nyanya bombings: SSS arrests Ogwuche’s father • Why Ogwuche’s arrival to Nigeria is delayed

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Headlines, State News Sunday, May 18th, 2014

AS diplomatic paperwork is being concluded to repatriate Abubakar Sadiq Ogwuche, co-mastermind of the Nyanya motor park bombing in which scores of citizens died and hundreds wounded, the Federal Government, on Thursday, announced the arrest of his father, Colonel Agene Ogwuche (retd). Ms Marylyn Ogar, spokesperson for the Department of State Security Services (SSS), revealed […]

Boko Haram has killed over 12,000 Nigerians —Jonathan •West African leaders declare war on sect at Paris summit

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines Sunday, May 18th, 2014

Leon Usigbe – Paris and Moses Alao with Agency Report PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the war against terror has blown into a full scale war, which has now taken the lives of about 12,000 people. Addressing the Regional Summit on Security convened by France President, Francois Hollande in Paris, on Saturday, Jonathan said […]