Cross Rivers State Deputy Governor, Efiok Cobham Unknown gunmen in the wee hours of Friday kidnapped the octogenarian father of the Deputy Governor of Cross River State, Chief Essien Cobham, from his home in Creek Town, Odukpani Local Government Area of the state. An uncle of the deputy governor whose name could not be […]
The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mr. Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Friday. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer academy in the West African country and another one […]
Late Akeem Akintunde, 35, recently became famous for the Facebook post that preceded his death. Akeem, one of the victims of the ill-fated Associated Airline plane that crashed on October 3, 2013, had some hours before the incident, posted on Facebook: “For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning […]
The Agege, Lagos residence of the Hassans still maintained a gloomy silence a week after Samson Hassan, 27, along with some other passengers, died following the October 3, 2013 crash of an Associated Airline charter aircraft. Samson was a photojournalist, working with MIC Caskets, which lost its Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Tunji Okusanya, his […]
Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah Aviation industry regulator, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, is yet to certify any of the 22 airports in the country because the airports have been unable to meet the requirements on the regulator’s checklist particularly in the area of security and safety in the last 20 years. Saturday […]
Indian villagers, along with forestry workers, look at the body of an elephant as it lies on the railway tracks after it was struck by a passenger train at Mongpong village, near Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, some 25 kms from Siliguri on October 11, 2013. | credits: AFP An adult male elephant was Friday mowed […]
Chief Solomon Lar | credits: File copy First civilian governor of Plateau State, Chief Solomon Lar, is dead. Lar passed on in a US hospital of what family sources described as old-age related ailment on Wednesday. He was aged 80. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Abraham Yiljap, who confirmed his death, told our correspondent that […]
For 15 Russians accused of unlawfully importing arms and ammunition into Nigeria, it was time to go home yesterday. They were freed by a Federal High Court, Lagos. This followed an application to withdraw the charges against them by the Federal Government. Zhelyazkov Andrey; Savchenko Sergel; Lopatin Alexey; Baranovskly Nikolay; Llia Shubov; Dimitry Bannyrh; along […]
Chief Olu Falae As condolences continued to pour in over the death of Ondo State Commissioner for Culture and Tourism, Deji Falae, his father, Chief Olu Falae, has declared that he has surrendered to the will of the Almighty God. Falae said this on Tuesday while receiving leaders of Afenifere in his residence in […]
The Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Church Headquarters, at Odofin Park Lane, Oshodi-Apapa Expressway shut by the Lagos State Government …on Monday. | credits: Goke Famadewa The headquarters of the Lord’s Chosen Charismatic Revival Movement, along the Apapa – Oshodi Expressway in Lagos has been sealed off by the Lagos State Government for gross environmental […]
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