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Ezekwesili leads fight against rape

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Former Minister of Education, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili | credits: File copy Former Minister of Education and Vice-President of the World Bank, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili, has taken to social media, including the micro-blogging website, Twitter, to speak out against rape. The former minister, who recently reprimanded popular comedian, Basketmouth, for a rape joke on his […]

Five policemen slump on parade ground

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Five Policemen slump on parade ground in Lagos … on Friday | credits: Stanley Ogidi Five officers of the Nigeria Police Force slumped on Friday at the Police College, Ikeja, during a parade to mark the pulling out (retirement) of senior police officers. The event, which lasted for about two hours, was held in honour […]

New tactics of Abuja sex workers

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

New tactics of Abuja sex workers Commercial sex workers develop new strategies to beat directives of the Federal Capital Territory administration, OLALEKAN ADETAYO writes Like every other urban settlements, the Federal Capital Territory is having its fair share of the activities of commercial sex workers. Once upon a time, these women of easy virtue, […]

Picture: Confusion in Osun as students wear hijab, choir robe, fetish attires to school •‘Allahu Akbar’, church songs and incantations boom at assembly ground

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Wednesday, February 5th, 2014

There was commotion and confusion in Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State, on yesterday, as students of the school abandoned the general uniform provided by Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration and wore hijabs, purdah and choir garments to the school. The development disrupted the usual assembly prayer, as the students declined to listen to their principal […]

‘Aregbesola’s excuse for non-payment of pension laughable’

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola | credits: File copy The immediate-past Head of Service in Osun State, Mr. Segun Akinwusi, has described the excuse given by Governor Rauf Aregbesola for his administration inability to pay pensions and gratuities as laughable. The Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Wale Bolorunduro, had blamed the inability of the government to […]

160,000 policemen being trained for 2015 elections —IG (Is it war or elections?)

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics, Nigerian Police Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has said about 160,000 policemen are being trained to ensure hitch-free gubernatorial elections in Ekiti and Osun states this year and the 2015 general elections. The IG said this when the United States Ambassador, Mr. James Entwistle, paid him a courtesy visit at the Force headquarters Abuja, on Tuesday. […]

Emirates secures approval to fly Abuja, Kano routes

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines, State News Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah Emirates Airline has received approval from the Federal Ministry of Aviation to increase its daily passenger flights route to include Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. The airline, in a statement, said the approval would assist the company to further meet the […]

Bank workers live in fear as job losses continue

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

| credits: Chukky Nwakky The wave of sacking that characterised the banking sector a couple of years back has not abated as the axes are dangling on more workers, ADEMOLA ALAWIYE writes Indications have emerged that more bank workers will lose their jobs in 2014 following cost-cutting measures about to be introduced by the […]

Anti-World Cup protests rock Brazil, many arrested

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, February 2nd, 2014

Over 100 people were arrested in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, during a protest against this summer’s World Cup which will be hosted in the country. Around 2,500 people took to the streets on Saturday for the demonstration which ended in clashes with police late in the night. In some of the most dramatic […]

Man sentenced to death for claiming to be Prophet Muhammed

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, February 2nd, 2014

Views: 1853 A British man sentenced to death in Pakistan for allegedly claiming to be the Prophet Muhammed has appealed the sentence. Muhammed Asghar, 69, who is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, was handed the sentence a week ago by a court in Rawalpindi after he was accused of claiming to be the Prophet Muhammed in […]