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Opinion: Don’t blame ASUU, urge the Federal Government

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The negative reaction of the General Olusegun Obasanjo administration to the university students’ nationwide protests in April 1978 against the sudden hike in tuition by his administration marked a turning point in the decline in university education in Nigeria. University campuses were quickly occupied by the riot police as students kept chanting Alli Must Go, […]

Anambra poll: PDP rejects Uba, picks Nwoye

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

ANDY UBA The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has accepted the verdict of the party’s Gubernatorial Congress Committee which returned Chief Tony Nwoye as the elected candidate for the Anambra State governorship poll. National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, said that Nwoye was the party’s candidate as he emerged in […]

Rivers PDP expels SSG, 14 commissioners, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

BARELY six days to its national convention, the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has expelled 18 members loyal to the state Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. The state PDP announced the expulsion of the members shortly after receiving the report of the Performance Evaluation Committee on Monday at the party secretariat in Port Harcourt on […]

Police bullet kills 60-year-old deejay, wife demands justice

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Slain Adamson and wife, Modinatu Wife of a 60-year-old deejay, Adamson Bello, who was killed last Sunday by a stray bullet fired by a policeman attached to the Okokomaiko Police Division, Lagos State, has called for justice. Modinatu, 50, said the police did not only shoot her husband, they also frustrated efforts to […]

Suntai writes assembly, seeks to resume duty

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

(1) Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai being assisted out of an aircraft by his aides at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja … on Sunday; (2) An SUV that conveyed him to the VIP lounge of the airport; (3) Security personnel and aides welcoming him at the Jalingo airport. | credits: Sam Adeko. RECUPERATING […]

SSS grills teenage stowaway’s mum (Leave the mom alone, address the bigger problem)

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The mother of the 13-year-old stowaway, Ricky Daniel Ohikhena, who on Friday hid in the tyre compartment of an Arik plane on a flight from Benin to Lagos, was on Monday quizzed for hours by a combined team of security operatives from the Department of State Security Service and aviation security. The mother, Evelyn, […]

Spiritualist, car dealer defraud FCT minister

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Monday, August 26th, 2013

The State Security Service has arrested a car dealer, Ibrahim Takat, for allegedly conspiring with a spiritualist, Nakasi Ahmadu, “to defraud the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, of N3m.” The duo were said to have cloned the minister’s telephone number which they used to send a text message to Mohammed’s Chief of Staff […]

Gov. Suntai arrives Abuja, helped off the plane

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, State News, Taraba Monday, August 26th, 2013

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State on Sunday afternoon arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja after spending about 10 months abroad for treatment for injuries sustained when a small aircraft he piloted crashed. The governor, who left Nigeria for Germany in October, was supported on his right and left arms by aides while disembarking […]

Stowaway boy thought Arik Flight was US bound

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Monday, August 26th, 2013

THE teenage stowaway, Daniel Ihekina, who was arrested at the Lagos Airport after flying in the tyre hole of an Arik plane from Benin to Lagos on Saturday morning, thought he was on a US-bound flight. A source at the Benin Airport who disclosed this said the boy’s parents had already departed for Lagos in […]

Malawian coach to report Keshi to FIFA for racist comment

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Malawi coach Tom Saintfiet is to report Stephen Keshi to Fifa after the Nigeria coach called him “a white dude who should go back to Belgium”. The pair have been arguing since Malawi asked Fifa to move next month’s crucial World Cup qualifier from Calabar for safety reasons. Saintfiet told BBC Sport: “It is unacceptable […]