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Don’t ‘besmirch’ Mandela’s name, Tutu tells feuding family

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2013

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu Thursday pleaded with Nelson Mandela’s family not to “besmirch” his name after they engaged in a public spat fuelled by a legal dispute over a burial site. The family of the global icon has been involved in a bitter legal squabble over the reburial […]

ASUU, ASUP strikes ground varsities, polytechnics

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2013

BY DAYO ADESULU, LAJU ARENYEKA & IKENNA ASOMBA In what could be described as a near collapse of the nation’s tertiary education sector, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is now in the fourth day of its indefinite strike action. The ASUU strike is the newest cart in the bandwagon of industrial actions in […]

Pastor, wife talk dirty as court dissolves marriage

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, July 4th, 2013

LAGOS — An Orile-Agege Customary Court in Lagos, yesterday, dissolved the 20-year-old marriage of a pastor, who had accused his wife of infidelity and threat to his life. Pastor Sunday Owonikoko,51, had filed a petition at the court on May 27, saying he could no longer continue with his wife, Bolajoko, 47. Ruling in the […]

Military Coup in Egypt, president Mohammed Morsi overthrown with just a few months in office

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Top Stories Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

Egypt’s embattled President Mohamed Morsi has proposed a consensus government as a way out of the country’s crisis, as an army deadline urging him to meet the protesters’ demands expired. “The presidency envisions the formation of a consensus coalition government to oversee the next parliamentary election,” his office said on Wednesday in a statement on […]

“Court Should Dismiss Corruption Charges Against Fani-Kayode”- Hon Rotimi Makinde

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

The case against former aviation minister Chief Femi Fani-Kayode by the EFCC is really laughable and full of many inconsistencies. He was alleged of laundering N230 million through his aides, wife, and daughter; between 2006 and 2007 when he was a minister. This is nothing but political persecution of the most vicious and cruel kind. […]

How woman married two men at the same time (Learning from the men)

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

BY ONOZURE DANIA LAGOS — AN Ikeja Magistrate’s Court was told, yesterday, how a woman, Mrs. Adedoyin Ogunmefun, allegedly married two men at the same time. She was also accused of having children for the two men she allegedly married. Mrs Ogunmefun, who was arraigned alongside her second husband, before Magistrate B. O. Osunsanmi, over […]

Langtang massacre: Death toll rises to 70

Posted by admin Headlines, Plateau, State News Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

By Taye ObateruJos — The death toll from last week’s attack on communities in Langtang South Local Government of Plateau State has risen to 70, while no fewer than 7,000 have been displaced.Member representing Langtang North/South Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Beni Lar, who confirmed this during a visit to the affected parts, […]

UK visa conditions, same-sex marriage and democratic universalism

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

FOR some time now, the entire West seems to be engaging the rest of the world in a very fierce war to get everyone on earth to buy into the GROUND SIN called ‘same-sex marriage’. It appears very clearly that the West is in a hurry to provoke God’s anger as Sodom and Gomorra did […]

Editorial: Cutting Off The North

Posted by admin Headlines, North-Central, North-East, North-West Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

WHOEVER worked out the 2013/14 cut off marks for admission to federal government colleges is cutting off the North from developing its capacities. It is a practical indication of ordained backwardness for a part of Nigeria – it should not be allowed, for the dangers it portends for the whole country.It is bad if some […]

Obi’s political exit: The odd steps of a Nigerian governor

Posted by admin Anambra, General Politics, Headlines, State News, Top Stories Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor Governor Peter Obi’s declaration of his imminent political retirement is an affirmation of the unusual political steps of the governor in his more than seven years in office“For me, I have come to the end of it; I want to quit and rest,” Governor Peter Obi said in a remark […]