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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 […]

Fayemi squandered N400bn in 40 months –Bamidele

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Saturday, February 15th, 2014

• He’s a liar, says Info commissioner From Charles Adegbite, Ado-Ekiti Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Hon Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, yesterday alleged that Ekiti State governor, Kayode Fayemi got over four hundred billion naira (N400billion) in forty months, which he claimed was badly managed in view of the value of […]

INEC’s warning on premature campaigns

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics Saturday, February 15th, 2014

Ahead of next year’s general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned political parties to desist from what it described as pre-emptive campaign tendencies. The commission particularly pointed a finger at the subtle, but illegal, electioneering that has characterised the forthcoming governorship polls in Ekiti and Osun states, as well as other upcoming […]