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EU to aid rebuilding of Mali with €500m

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

THE European Union will pledge to contribute more than 500 million euros ($650 million) to help Malians rebuild their country at a conference of aid donors in Brussels today, European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso said. “Tomorrow (today) we will commit €520m for Mali between 2013 and 2014,” Barroso told reporters on Tuesday. Mali, last […]

Africans stand to lose as U.S. moves to cancel visa lottery

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

2014 applicants asked to check website AS the United States (U.S.) reforms its immigration laws and eliminates the green card lottery, Africans could be the big losers owing to the fact that they are the main beneficiaries of the visa programme, agency report indicated Wednesday. But around 100,000 people were Wednesday picked from several million […]

Pastor in court for abducting General Overseer’s daughter

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

An Assistant Pastor of a Benin based Pentecostal church identified as Fidelis Ejoke has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly abducting and defiling a 13- year old daughter of the General Overseer of his church. Pastor Fidelis, who pleaded not guilty to the two count charge of abduction and indecent assault, was arraigned before […]

Nigerians in UK prisons reduced by 40 percent

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Figure drooped from 900 t0 540 The number of Nigerians serving various jail terms in the United Kingdom has significantly dropped from some 900 to 540, the Nigerian High Commissioner to that country, Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, has said. Tafida, who spoke against the backdrop of the Nigeria-UK Prisoners Transfer Agreement, stated this in a chat […]

Rivers women march for removal of police commissioner

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

The police have uncovered another ‘baby factory’. Six expectant teenage girls kept in a guardian’s home in Enugu were rescued after a raid on the private residence by security operatives. Enugu police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu said yesterday that the anti-kidnap unit of the police, acting on a tip-off raided No 7, Anyansi Lane, Ogui Enugu, […]

Picture: Six expectant teenage girls rescued from Enugu baby factory

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

The police have uncovered another ‘baby factory’. Six expectant teenage girls kept in a guardian’s home in Enugu were rescued after a raid on the private residence by security operatives. Enugu police spokesman Ebere Amaraizu said yesterday that the anti-kidnap unit of the police, acting on a tip-off raided No 7, Anyansi Lane, Ogui Enugu, […]

Speaker alleges plot to kill Ameachi, others

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

The Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) crisis hit a frightening bend yesterday, with House of Assembly Speaker Otelemaba Dan Amachree alleging a plot to assassinate Governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi and other officials. He did not name those behind the plot. In an open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan, the Speaker said there was a […]

Hoodlums raze Rivers LG as police vacate premises

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

BARELY 24 hours after security operatives vacated the secretariat of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, suspected hoodlums on Tuesday razed a building in the premises. The PUNCH learnt that the hoodlums threw dynamite into a building housing the council’s generating set at about 10am. The secretariat gets its supply of electricity from […]

18-year-old undergraduate stabs father to death

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Residents of Langbasa, Ajah, Lagos State are still talking about 18-year-old Olanrewaju Kayode-Aremu, who stabbed his father, Victor Kayode-Aremu, to death. Police authorities said the suspect stabbed his 46-year-old father to death while the man was attempting to enter his room. PUNCH Metro learnt that Olanrewaju was a student of University of Ilorin, Kwara State, […]

I ’ve forgiven Peter Obi – Umeh

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, says he has forgiven all the “dissidents that had a hand in the crises that nearly tore the party apart in recent time”. Umeh stated this in Ogidi, Anambra State during the party’s South-East stakeholders’ meeting. The APGA chief, who recalled the party’s history […]