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Forbes names Dangote Africa’s most powerful man

Posted by admin Headlines, Top Stories Thursday, October 31st, 2013

Alhaji Aliko Dangote | credits: File copy The President, Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been named the most powerful man in Africa and 64th in the world by the Forbes magazine. Dangote, who Forbes says is by far Africa’s richest man with a net worth of $16.1bn as of March 2013, was ranked […]

Picture: ACP didn’t fondle lady’s breast –Police

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Thursday, October 31st, 2013

The controversial picture. | credits: Facebook The Nigeria Police has described the photograph, which showed a senior police officer in the act of fondling the breast of an unknown lady, as fake. It said the picture, which went viral on the Internet, was deliberately fabricated with the aid of Adobe Photoshop technology to mislead […]

Right-of-Way: Bayelsa demolishes Dickson’s private home

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Thursday, October 31st, 2013

Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson | credits: transformationwatch.com Bayelsa State Government on Wednesday demolished a one-storey private building owned by Governor Seriake Dickson because it obstructed the Right-of-Way as well as intruding on the state Capital City Master Plan. . The demolished building, which had been marked by the Capital City Development Authority […]

Intelligent light heralds new S-Class at Abuja fair

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Wednesday, October 30th, 2013

Weststar Associates Limited stole the show at the just concluded 15th edition of Abuja motor fair with its unprecedented display of 2014 models of some Mercedes Benz and its other vehicles. The stand of the auto firm was also the cynosure of all eyes as visitors to the Eagle Square venue of the five-day […]

Boy, 14, rapes nine-year-old girl to death

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Ondo, State News Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

The police in Lagos State have commenced investigation into how a nine-year-old girl died, after sustaining injuries caused by alleged consistent rape. According to police authorities, the deceased was raped over five times, by a 14-year-old student, Onyi Adimabua, in the Ikorodu area of the state. The father of the deceased, Simeon Jigo, told […]

Another plane crash averted in Abuja

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Aviation, Headlines, State News Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja Another air disaster was averted at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, Abuja on Monday as a Med-View Airlines aircraft from Lagos suddenly took to the air again at the point of landing in Abuja. The pilot told the passengers that he took to the air again to avoid a collision […]

Yobe: 35 bodies in military uniform found in morgue after Boko Haram assault

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, State News, Yobe Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

THIRTY-FIVE bodies in military uniform have been brought to a morgue in Yobe State, after a coordinated assault by Boko Haram targeting the security forces, a hospital source told AFP on Monday. The attack, late last week Thursday in Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, was the first raid in a major urban centre […]

Armour car whistle blower risk five year jail term – Aviation unions to protect whistle-blowers from sack (How many years of jail term does the minister risk?)

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

CHAIRMAN, House of Representatives Committee on Public Procurement, Honourable Jumoke Okoya-Thomas, on Monday, disclosed that anyone found culpable in the purchase of the controversial bulletproof cars reportedly for the minister of aviation risks five years jail term without an option of fines. The lawmaker, speaking on behalf of the committee, stated this while speaking with […]

U.S. senator seeks peace meeting with Nigerians over comments

Posted by admin American Politics, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories Tuesday, October 29th, 2013

US Senator, Ted Cruz, is asking for a peace meeting with Nigerian-Americans who have demanded that he retracts his controversial joke last week which many of them considered insulting, Empowered Newswire reports. According to a letter from the senator released over the weekend to leaders of the Nigerian community in Houston, Texas, where the controversial […]

Canada introduces new visa policy

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 27th, 2013

BY VICTORIA OJEME ABUJA-The Canadian Embassy in Nigeria has introduced a new visa policy which will require provision of fingerprints and a digital photograph for applicants for visitor visa, study or work permit. In a statement in Abuja, yesterday, the embassy said visitors to Canada from several countries, including Nigeria, were affected by the new […]