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5,000 women plan protest against the Olu of Warri

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

No fewer than 5,000 women are expected to storm the palace of the Olu of warri, Ogiame Atuwase II, on Tuesday (today) to protest the monarch’s decision to abolish some of the ancient Itshekiri cultural practices. Our correspondent learnt that the women would be dressed in symbolic red attire as a sign of danger for […]

Fashola not the best governor – PDP (Bad belly)

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Tuesday, September 10th, 2013

The Peoples Democratic Party has said that the Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN), is not the best governor in Nigeria. The PDP Publicity Secretary, Mr. Olisa Metuh, who said this in an interview with journalists in Abuja, said there were PDP governors who had done better than Fashola. “I disagree with the view that […]

After admitting lying about sexual intimacy with Bianca Ojukwu, Fani-Kayode has also admits lying about same with Anasoh & Uchegbu

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, September 8th, 2013

By PATIENCE EGWUWA Barely 24 hours after the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, formally withdrew the claim of his alleged intimate relationship with Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, he has also retracted a similar statement he made on Miss Chioma Anasoh and Miss Adaobi Uchegbu. Recall that the former minister had in an article entitled: […]

Picture: Wife pours hot water on husband over sex

Posted by admin Headlines, Katsina, State News Sunday, September 8th, 2013

By Ngozi Uwujare A newly wedded wife, Jamila Saidu Umar is now cooling her heels in police cell in Katsina State after being arrested for pouring hot water on her husband, Aminu Umar, during an argument over sex. It was gathered that Umar incurred his wife’s wrath when he accused her of not performing to his […]

Eagles ready for any team — Keshi

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Super Eagles’ Emmanuel Emenike (right) dribbling past a Malawian player during their 2014 World Cup qualifier in Calabar … on Saturday | credits: AFP Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, will not pray to avoid any of the big teams that have qualified for the play-offs in the 2014 World Cup qualifying series, insisting that […]

Mouthy Belgian coach of Malawi, Tom Saintfiet, jobless after loss to Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Belgian Tom Saintfiet position as Malawi national football team coach is untenable following his side’s 0-2 loss to Nigeria at UJ Usuene Stadium in Calabar in a 2014 World Cup qualifying game on Saturday. Saintfiet whose appointment was ratified on July 2 by the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) explained that he had an “agreement till midnight on […]

Nigerian women accused of “birth tourism” in Canada

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 8th, 2013

TORONTO — Carrying fraudulent, forged and stolen passports, dozens of Nigerian women began making their way to Toronto not long ago — so many that last year the Canada Border Services Agency identified it as a “trend.” The women were between the ages of 20 and 35, and were traveling with the help of “facilitation” […]

Fire Guts Hausa Quarters in Yenagoa

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Saturday, September 7th, 2013

A mid-night inferno has rendered homeless more than 400 residents of Hausa/Fulani Community, a suburb around the Aretallin area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital. Scores of residential apartments, including permanent structures, batchers and make-shift houses were completely destroyed, while property estimated to cost millions of Naira were also consumed in the inferno. Some elders […]

Customs arrests forgers of govt certificates, seals

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, September 7th, 2013

Bank tellers found in their hideout Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A Ikeja, Lagos of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) have arrested members of a syndicate that specialises in the forgery of various government import documents including the seal of the Comptroller General of the NCS.At a raid of the syndicate’s ‘office’ […]

I went into drug trafficking to get money for marriage- Suspect

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Saturday, September 7th, 2013

By Christipher Oji A 36-year-old man has been rearrested for the same offence of drug trafficking, a crime for which he is already standing trial in court. Nnaemeka Benjamin, who is standing trial for cocaine smuggling at the Lagos High Court, Ikoyi, was re-arrested with 1.820kg of heroin by officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency […]