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2015: Okorocha, Amaechi, Oshiomhole shun S’East, S’South govs meeting

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, Imo, Rivers, State News Monday, July 8th, 2013

… As other govs back Jonathan From CHID NNADI and PETRUS OBI, Enugu The governors of Imo, Rivers and Edo states, Rochas Okorocha, Rotimi Amaechi and Adams Oshiomhole respectively yesterday shunned the South-South and South-East governors’ meeting held in Enugu. Though Governor Peter Obi who briefed newsmen after the meeting tried to shield the kernel […]

Opinion: Fighting for Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, July 7th, 2013

WE cannot remember the Senate breaking into a fight over anything, not even when there were threats to their juicy allowances. The House of Representatives is more famous for fights, including the 2007 one that claimed the life of Dr. Aminu Safana from Katsina State who died as opponents and proponents of Mrs Patricia Etteh, […]

Rape in Church: The devil used me – Bishop

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, July 7th, 2013

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME MANY found it hard to believe. They made calls to confirm if those close to the bishop had heard the story. But the ‘man of God’ himself told the story before journalists at the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Bishop Chibuike Nwabueze narrated the story of how he […]

JTF moves to eliminate illegal bunkering in N/Delta

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, Niger Delta Sunday, July 7th, 2013

By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT — JOINT Task Force, JTF, has stepped up its crusade against illegal oil bunkering in the Niger Delta region. Commander of the task force, Major General Beita Debiro, while on patrol of waterways in Rivers State said that the JTF was set to eliminate illegal oil bunkering activities in the […]

Taiwo joins Turkish club

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Out-of-favour Nigeria defender Taye Taiwo has completed his move to Turkish side Bursaspor from AC Milan. Taiwo, who played on loan at Ukrainian club Dynamo Kiev last season, passed a medical before finalising his three-year contract on Saturday. The 28-year-old joined Milan from Marseille in the summer of 2011, but struggled for a regular first-team […]

Seven die as gunmen raid hotel in Lagos

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Some gunmen stormed a hotel in Ajah area of Lagos State on Sunday, 04 Hotel, killing the owner, identified as Olanrewaju Subair, and three others. The police authorities said one of the gunmen was killed in the operation which lasted for about an hour. However, two people died from a fire outbreak that was caused […]

Yobe killings barbaric, wicked – Jonathan

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Sunday, July 7th, 2013

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday described the killing of 29 pupils of Government Secondary School, Mamudo, Potiskum, Yobe State, as wicked and barbaric and vowed to flush our perpetrators of violence out of the country. “The killing is barbaric, completely wicked. Anybody who will target innocent children for any kind of grief will certainly go […]

The man ‘Fashola’ by Fashola

Posted by admin General Politics, Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, July 7th, 2013

In the absence of the usual compliment of effusive media adverts, the special interview granted a select group of editors was probably the most public event in the recent celebration of Babatunde Raji Fashola’s 50th birthday! In a rare commentary on himself, Fashola wittingly fielded questions with fluid unscripted responses; possibly, the only question parried […]

School massacre: Yobe secondary schools closed

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Secondary schools have been ordered closed across Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Yobe after a massacre in which suspected Islamist extremists killed 22 students and torched their school. Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam condemned as “cold-blooded murder” Saturday’s attack on the Mamudo boarding school. Nigeria blamed Islamist militant group Boko Haram – which targeted two schools in […]

CHAN: Nigeria thrash Ivory Coast 4-1, seal a place in the finals in South Africa

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, July 7th, 2013

Morocco shocked title-holders Tunisia and Nigeria overpowered Ivory Coast in 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers. A brace from star midfielder Sunday Mba helped Nigeria trounce nine-man Ivory Coast 4-1 in Kaduna and virtually seal a place in the finals for the first time. Morocco are equally well-placed to compete in South Africa next January […]