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Emenike, Omeruo out of Mandela Challenge Cup

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Friday, August 9th, 2013

Fenerbahce striker Emmanuel Emenike and Chelsea’s Kenneth Omeruo have dropped out of Wednesday’s Mandela Challenge match against South Africa in Durban. Super Eagles team official, Dayo Enebi Achor, said, “He (Emenike) may have been at the club before but he is highly valued in Turkey and he has requested that he be allowed to settle […]

Eid-el-fitri tragedy: Teenage boy drowns at Bar Beach

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, August 9th, 2013

An unidentified teenager drowned at the Bar Beach, Lagos as revellers celebrated Eid-el-fitri in the area on Friday. A fun seeker, who witnessed the incident and identified himself simply as Michael, said there was a heavy traffic of persons at the beach while there were only two live guards on duty. It is usual in […]

EFCC to quiz Rivers Speaker, other principal officers • Rivers Assembly, PDP disagree over probe

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News Friday, August 9th, 2013

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to quiz the Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Otelemaba Amachree, and other principal officers loyal to Governor Rotimi Amaechi. The commission has already interrogated the embattled Majority Leader, Mr. Chidi Lloyd, who has just been granted bail over an attempted murder charge, assault, intent to maim […]

FG sponsors 36 N’Delta youths for overseas programmes

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Friday, August 9th, 2013

The Office of the Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has awarded scholarship to 36 youths of the Niger Delta for degree programmes in the United States. The Technical Assistant to the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Larry Pepple, who represented Kuku at a send-off for the youths at the Abuja […]

Group condemns attacks on Akpabio

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Friday, August 9th, 2013

The South-South Youth Assembly has condemned what it described as media attacks on the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio, by a group in Kaduna under the aegies of Northern Emancipation Network. In a statement by the group’s president, Mr. Ben Jaja, and Secretary, Mr. Joseph Tenelaibe, on Thursday, the group condemned the northern […]

Men, watch your prostate, don’t be caught unawares

Posted by admin Headlines Friday, August 9th, 2013

As breast cancer is common in women above 45 years of age, so is prostate cancer in men above the age of 60. Prostate cancer is a disease which affects only men and it affects the prostate — a gland in the male reproductive system. Statistics by the National Cancer Registry estimate that one out […]

Wanted oil marketer’s lawyer tackles EFCC

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines, Oil Politics Friday, August 9th, 2013

A legal practitioner, Mr. Ajibola Oluyede, who is a counsel for a subsidy fraud suspect, Mr. Seun Ogunbambo, on Thursday, described the declaration by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Ogunbambo as a wanted person as unconstitutional. Oluyede said in a statement that there was no basis for declaring his client wanted because there […]

Rep cries out over harassment of Amaechi’s supporters

Posted by admin Headlines, House, Legislature, Rivers, State News Friday, August 9th, 2013

THE lawmaker representing Etche/Omuma Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Mr. Ogbonna Nwuke, has condemned the arrest and detention of suppoters of Governor Rotimi Amaechi in the Peoples Democratic Party in his constituency. In a statement made available to journalists in Port Harcourt on Thursday, Nwuke accused the police of bias in the political crisis […]

Picture: Jilted lover sets corps member, friend ablaze

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News Friday, August 9th, 2013

When in November 2012, Winifred Okey, received a call-up letter to begin her National Youth Service Corps programme in Rivers State, she was extremely happy. This was because she wanted to be posted there so that she would be close to her friends, who were staying there. The 23-year-old graduate’s happiness was however cut short […]

First international flights after Nairobi airport fire

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 8th, 2013

Some international flights have landed at Nairobi’s international airport a day after fire gutted the arrivals hall, causing serious disruption. A plane from London was the first to land at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 06:30 local time (03:30 GMT), Kenyan airport authorities said. Other planes from Bangkok and Kilimanjaro also arrived. The cause of […]