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India: Woman, 20, gang-raped on the orders of community elders . . . over ‘wrong relationship’

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Views: 96 Police in India’s West Bengal state have arrested 13 men in connection with a gang rape of a woman, allegedly on orders of village elders who objected to her relationship with a man. The 20-year-old woman has been admitted to a hospital in […]

Alleged ill health: Akunyili thanks Nigerians, returns soon

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Views: 195 Nigeria’s immediate past Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, has expressed gratitude to Nigerians for their outpouring of love and concern following rumours about her alleged ill health. Writing on her Facebook wall, the former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said: “Thank […]

Picture: MARRY this girl, GET $120 MILLION (N19 BILLION)

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Views: 322 Yes, that’s right – if as a man you can convince the pretty girl in the photo accompanying this story, you’ll instantly become $120 million (about N19 billion) richer! Gigi – that’s her name – is a lesbian but her superrich tycoon dad Cecil Chao is desperate for her to do the […]

‘Bode George’s attack on Lagos Assembly cheap’

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Chief Bode George The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Information and Publicity, Mr. Segun Olulade, has faulted Chief Bode George’s attack on members of the House. George, a former national Vice-Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West Zone, was said to have described the Lagos State House of Assembly as […]

Return to PDP, Mu’azu, new PDP national Chairman, begs Amaechi, five other defected PDP governors

Posted by admin Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News, Top Stories Thursday, January 23rd, 2014

Amaechi and Mu’azu The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, has enjoined Jigawa State Governor Sule Lamido, to appeal to the five PDP governors who defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress to reconsider their action. Mu’azu said that Lamido should do so ahead of a visit to the five […]

Anti-Amaechi protesters threaten to shut down P’Harcourt airport

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Traffic gridlock caused by the demonstrators in Port Harcourt, Rivers State … on Tuesday. THOUSANDS of youths from the four local government areas of Rivers State that make up Ikwerre Ethnic Nationality, on Tuesday, threatened to shut down the Port Harcourt International Airport, if the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Mbu, was redeployed to […]

N9.8b fraud: SFU re-arraigns ‘wonder bank’ operators

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

The Police Special Fraud Unit on Tuesday re-arraigned two persons in a Federal High Court in Lagos, charged with N9.8 billion fraud. The accused, Fortune Etaba and Godwin Nwaiche, are standing trial alongside their bank, Establishment House Ltd., on an amended three-count charge. The accused were first arraigned in 2010 on a 300-count charge of […]

Ogoni people picket First Bank over N80.3bn compensation

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta, Rivers, State News Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Some members of the Ogoni community in Rivers on Wednesday picketed the First Bank Area Office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that no fewer than 1,000 protesters converged on the bank thereby disrupting transactions by other customers. Chief Simeon Monokpo, the leader of the group, said, “our protest is […]

Pope tweets backing for US anti-abortion rally

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Pope Francis has used Twitter to back an annual anti-abortion rally, the March for Life, which is expected to draw tens of thousands of activists to Washington on Wednesday. “I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. “May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable,’’ he said on his […]

Otudeko’s $48m suit against Dangote for hearing Feb. 6

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

A Federal High Court, Lagos, on Tuesday fixed February 6 to hear a suit filed by Oba Otudeko against Alhaji Aliko Dangote and the Nigerian Ports Authority over a land dispute. Justice Okon Abang adjourned the case at the instance of the counsel to Dangote, Mrs Fola Sowemimo, to enable her to file written statement […]