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U.S. man walks free after 30 years on death row

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row has walked free, after prosecutors asked a judge to set aside his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, citing new evidence in the case that exonerated him. Glenn Ford, 64, was convicted by an all-white jury for the 1983 robbery and murder of […]

Police arraign pastor for cutting off two-year-old’s fingers

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Saidat Faleye | credits: Samson Folarin The Sabo Police Station on Tuesday arraigned a 49-year-old pastor, Moyo Martins, before a Yaba Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly cutting off the fingers of a two-year-old child, Saidat Faleye. The incident happened on Olumo Street, Iwaya Onike, Yaba, Lagos State. It was learnt that the mother of […]

Five buried alive in Ghana gold mining accident

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Five people, including a one-year-old girl, have been buried alive in an illegal gold mining pit in Ghana’s Central Region, an Accra-based radio station has reported. It said the accident occurred at Akookoso, in the Amansie Central district, on Tuesday when they were in the pit digging for gold. The child was with her parents […]

Opinion: Lessons from Yonggi Cho’s imprisonment

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

Jide Ojo | credits: File copy The fall of supposed men and women of God is not a new phenomenon. Even the Holy Bible has records of such: Adam, Moses, Judas Iscariot were examples. In contemporary times, we have had about the humpty-dumpty fall of some great men of God. In July 1986, Marvin Gorman, […]

Rivers APC Takes on Evans Bipi over Poor Sentence Construction

Posted by admin All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Rivers, State News Sunday, March 9th, 2014

Apologise or Face Suspension’ APC Tells Him The Rivers State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress says it has watched with sadness the great embarrassment brought to Rivers State and its people by Hon. Evans Bipi, the self-acclaimed Rebel Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly. The party in press release signed and made […]

Woman accuses Onyeka Onwenu of assault, petitions NHRC

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, March 9th, 2014

Mrs. Olajoke Adesipe A business woman, Mrs. Olajoke Adesipe, has accused popular musician, Onyeka Onwenu, of assault. Adesipe, who had petitioned the National Human Rights Commission, also said she was forcefully evicted from her shop at the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja on the order of Onyeka, who is the Director-General of the centre. […]

Bayelsa drags EFCC to court over Alamieyesiegha loot (So it can be re-looted?)

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Sunday, March 9th, 2014

Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson | credits: transformationwatch.com Bayelsa State Government has asked an Abuja Federal High Court to order the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to immediately remit to it the N1.4bn, and another $1.3m recovered from a former governor of the state, Diepreye Alamieyesiegha. The suit was filed by one Mr. […]

Bola Ige’s ghost’ll haunt his killers —Son

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Sunday, March 9th, 2014

Late Chief Bola Ige Son of the late Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige, Muyiwa, has said the ghost of his father will continue to haunt those who killed him. Muyiwa is currently the Commissioner for Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Development in Osun State. Speaking with journalists […]

40 ships, 35 aircrafts search for missing Malaysian plane

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines Sunday, March 9th, 2014

An Indian artist, Sudersan Pattnaik, working on a sand sculpture with a message of prayers for the passengers of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 … on Sunday. | credits: AFP. Vietnamese navy planes have spotted what could be fragments from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared almost two days ago. Officials said it […]

Column: The phoney defence of the naira and the folly of a nation

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, March 9th, 2014

March 10, 2014 by Henry Boyo Nigerians generally believe that large foreign reserves are useful for defending the exchange rate of the naira. However, our total foreign reserves actually comprise two primary income streams; the first is the Excess Crude Account (ECA), which consists of all crude oil revenue that is in excess of budget […]