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Re: Playing dangerous politics with religion by Mohammed Haruna; Right of Reply

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, February 17th, 2014

All the states Major General Mohammadu won in 2011 are all the sharia states. Talking of using religion in the Nigerian body polity, was Goodluck Jonathan or Professor Jerry Gana the persons who introduced sharia laws in 1999 and 2000? Is Nigeria supposed not to be a secular country? The Northern Elders Forums and Jamma […]

Uganda president to sign anti-gay bill

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, February 17th, 2014

KAMPALA – Uganda President Yoweri Museveni will sign into law a controversial bill that will see homosexuals jailed for life despite international pressure, a government spokesman said Monday.“He will ascend the bill. This bill is very popular both within the parliament and Ugandan society. The president is under strong domestic pressure to sign the bill,” […]

Ethiopian Airlines hijacker was co-pilot – airport

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines Monday, February 17th, 2014

GENEVA – The man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines flight en route from Addis Ababa to Rome on Monday was the co-pilot, according to the Geneva airport where the plane was forced to land. The co-pilot said he had seized his chance when the pilot went to the bathroom, Bertrand Staempfli, the airport spokesman, told […]

Drug trafficking: Absence of interpreter stalls trial of Portuguese

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Monday, February 17th, 2014

The absence of an interpreter on Monday again stalled the trial before a Federal High Court, Lagos of a Portuguese woman, Roseangela Goncalves, charged with drug trafficking. Gonclaves, 36, is charged along with Christopher Olua, 38, on a two-count charge of dealing on a restricted narcotic, cocaine. They had both pleaded not guilty to the charge but the Judge, […]

How trigger-happy cop slept in a bush in Edo while evading arrest

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Monday, February 17th, 2014

*Killer cop, Corporal Valentine Ofuamaka, being led by prison official into the blackmaria after being arraigned at the Edo state Magistrate Court in Benin city advertisement <a href=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=12386&m=6&c=1″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=12386&m=6&tp=8&d=s&c=1&vcm_acv=1.3″ width=”300″ height=”250″ border=”1″></a> By SIMON EBEGBULEM, BENIN CITY Tragedy struck last Saturday along the Ikpoba Hill river, along the Benin Agbor road […]

Go to Akwa Ibom, weep for Abia State!

Posted by admin Abia, Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Sunday, February 16th, 2014

2 Comments » Ebere‭ ‬Wabara, ewabara@yahoo.com‭ ,‬08055001948 The governors of Akwa Ibom and Abia states, Godswill Obot Akpabio and Theodore Orji, respectively, are members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), both states border each other and are oil-producing entities. Indigenes of the two sub-nationalities inter-marry and some of their communities have cultural and language affinities! I […]

My successor will be tougher –Mbu

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, February 16th, 2014

Former Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu THE past Police Commissioner in Rivers State, Mr. Joseph Mbu, has stated that those that called for his redeployment were not fair to him. He also said contrary to insinuations, he was not in the state to do anybody’s bidding. The police commissioner, who was […]

Patience Jonathan flown abroad for treatment –Report

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, National Politics, Patience Jonathan, Top Stories Sunday, February 16th, 2014

Patience Jonathan | credits: File copy Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience Jonathan, may have embarked on another medical trip to Germany. A report by an online news portal, Sahara Reporters, on Saturday quoted two presidential sources as saying the First Lady was flown out of the country discreetly. One source, the medium claimed, disclosed […]

‘Pastor snatched my wife’

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, February 16th, 2014

• He’s a blackmailer –Church From GEORGE ONYEJIUWA, Owerri The Seventh Day Adventist Church in Imo State has been thrown into crisis as a member of the church, Mr. Charles Alozie sensationally alleged that the President of the Anambra and Imo Conference of the church, Pastor Ephraim Uzodinma Okpulor snatched his wife, Mrs. Chinwe Alozie. […]

Boko Haram threatens Cameroon over Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Saturday, February 15th, 2014

Boko Haram Violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, has threatened to declare war on Cameroon if she does not cease to support Nigeria’s military campaign against it. In recent times, the sect has been at the receiving end of a massive onslaught by the army in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states. Members of the sect […]