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Picture: Gaddafi’s sex chamber uncovered in Libya

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

It has now been revealed that the most heart-breaking of Gaddafi’s victims include hundreds, possibly thousands of teenage girls who, throughout his 42-year reign, were beaten, raped and forced to become his sex slaves. Many were virgins kidnapped from schools and universities and kept prisoner for years in a specially designed secret sex lair hidden […]

APC compiles dossier on CP Mbu for submission to the United Nations •Insists on redeployment

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News, United Nations Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has set up a three-man committee to compile a comprehensive list of alleged atrocities by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph Mbu, since he assumed office as the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State in February, 2013. This was disclosed this morning in a statement issued […]

Kalu’s alleged presidential ambition: Whose interest is Ohanaeze defending?

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Wednesday, January 29th, 2014

Views: 96 Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governor of Abia State, is one man whose sincerity of purpose drives out darkness. And, many know that darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light, which Kalu represents. He is a man of peace and not a dreamer, but somebody who sets goals and gets them. He […]

My Journey to Akanu Ibiam Int. Airport Enugu: A Review of Airport Services (Part 2)

Posted by admin Aviation, Enugu, Headlines, State News Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

Let me begin by extending my heartfelt appreciation to thousands of comments generated by Part one of this report. Overwhelming numbers of the feedback I received through the Forums, as well as private messages and Phone calls were very positive. I did not realize the potential for this story when I began writing it, neither […]

Israeli PM under fire for letting his son date a non-Jew

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, January 28th, 2014

Views: 95 Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticised by right-wing politicians in Israel who have accused the country’s prime minister of failing to set an example for the Jewish people by not preventing his son from dating a non-Jewish girl. Yair Netanyahu, a 23-year-old student, is thought to be dating a Norwegian woman after the pair […]

Northern elders’ misguided salvo

Posted by admin Armed Forces, General Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 26th, 2014

IN a country where the level of insecurity and political tension continue to reach unprecedented heights, the stated resolve of the Northern Elders Forum to press criminal charges against the former Chief of Army Staff, Azubuike Ihejirika, for alleged acts of extrajudicial killings committed by his men, can only drive the country further down the […]

Rivers police claim arrest of 320 B’Haram suspects

Posted by admin Boko Haram, General Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 26th, 2014

THE police command in Rivers State on Sunday said its men had arrested 320 persons suspected to be members of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The suspects were said to have been in a convoy of 17 buses when they were nabbed at about 5am on Sunday between the border of Imo and Rivers […]

Opinion: Anti-gay law: A common sense issue

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Anti- Homosexuality Law- A common sense Issue In the past couple of days the Nigerian media, to some extent the international media and online media, have been awash with discussions, opinions and video clips on the issue of the recently passed anti- homosexuality law in Nigeria. I have listened to the news media and […]

Spike in executions around the world worries capital punishment opponents

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 26th, 2014

EDGAR Arias Tamayo took 17 minutes to die. The 46-year-old Mexican national was taken into the Texas execution chamber, strapped down and given a lethal injection which would eventually kill him. He didn’t have any final words to say, instead choosing to remain silent. Tamayo, who was convicted of the 1994 shooting and killing […]

Jealous lover hurls grenade at wedding party

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Nine people were killed and 30 others injured in a grenade attack on a wedding party. The bride suffered a broken thigh after she was hit by shrapnel while the groom was injured in his hand. Source: Supplied. A GRENADE was lobbed at a wedding party in Cambodia, killing nine people and wounding 30 […]