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Confusion in A’ Ibom as Akpabio visits Umana

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

From JOE EFFIONG, Uyo Uncertainty reigned yesterday in Akwa Ibom State as Governor Godswill Akpabio visited the home of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr. Umana Okon Umana’s office. As at the time of filing this report, Akpabio was in Umana’s private residence in Ewet Housing Estate, thus heightening the speculation that Umana […]

Opinion: Lessons from the underage marriage law controversy

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

This is one controversy, which nearly every actor, reporter, commentator, and protester at least partially got wrong one way or the other. The basis of the controversy is provision (4)(b) in Section 29 of the 1999 Constitution, which deals with the qualification and procedure for the renunciation of citizenship. It is a carryover from the […]

Opinion: What’s next for Hamza al-Mustapha?

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

By Sabella Abidde (sabidde@yahoo.com) Now that Major Hamza al-Mustapha is free, Nigerians will like to know who killed Alhaja Kudirat Abiola on Tuesday, June 4, 1996. Who ordered her killing, and who pulled the trigger? The living and the dead deserve justice. But first, an abridged version of history. From August 5, 1967 until his […]

Soldiers invade FCT community, demolish classrooms, houses

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Armed Forces, Headlines, State News Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

A detachment of soldiers have invaded Galadimawa, a Gbagyi community in the Federal Capital Territory, demolishing classrooms and over 50 houses. The soldiers, who arrived at the village around 11am on Monday with three bulldozers, started the demolition in the community primary school, where they pulled down an uncompleted block of classrooms before moving to […]

Mikel, Moses off to US

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Mikel Obi has returned to Chelsea as part of the squad for the inaugural Guinness International Champions Cup in Miami. The Nigeria international, who has been subject of transfer away from Chelsea this summer, returned to the Stamford Bridge team after he was given an extended holiday following his participation at the FIFA Confederations Cup […]

Disturbing Picture: Police, hoodlums accused of killing undergraduate, friend (Nigerians have lost their souls)

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Policemen attached to the Badagry Police Division, Lagos State, and some hoodlums have been accused of killing a 25-year-old undergraduate of Delta State University, Ifechukwude Nwainokpor, and his friend, identified simply as Kazeem. An eight-minute video clip of the gruesome killing, which was made available to PUNCH Metro, showed the two victims handcuffed together. They […]

Opinion: Saving Nigerians from their airlines

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Monday, July 29th, 2013

Last Wednesday, I left Abuja city for the airport, to catch a scheduled 7pm Arik Air flight to Lagos. I got to the airport at 6pm, got my boarding pass, and waited for the boarding announcement. I expected we would depart sometime between 7pm and 8pm. At 7pm, an announcement came that our flight was […]

Court jails man eight years for raping girl, 12

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, July 29th, 2013

The Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced a middle-aged man, Innocent Eze, to eight years imprisonment for assaulting and raping a 12-year-old girl. Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye in the judgment delivered on Friday held that Eze was guilty of indecent assault and defilement. The convict was jailed one year for the first count and seven years […]

Tension in Edo as JTF invades ex-militant’s home

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Edo, Headlines, State News Monday, July 29th, 2013

Anxiety has enveloped Ajakurama in Ovia South West Local Government of Edo State as operatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta stormed the community demanding the whereabouts of a repentant militant, Ojuemi Perediseghabofa. The security operatives, who reportedly stormed the community at about 1am on July 18, 2013, took away Perediseghabofa’s wife […]

‘ISLAM IS MY CHOICE’: Pastor’s daughter breaks silence •Says she wasn’t converted by force

Posted by admin Headlines, Religion Saturday, July 27th, 2013

By News Express, www.newsexpressngr.com, on 27/07/2013 The pastor’s daughter at the centre of a row between Nigeria’s umbrella Christian and Muslim groups has broken her silence, debunking claims by her father and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that she was abducted and converted by force. The conversion of 24 years old Miss Charity (now […]