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Ini Edo begs fans

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry) Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Popular Nollywood actress, Ini Edo, has been so occupied lately that she has not had time for her teeming fan base especially on twitter. When she realised this, the screen diva apologised to her fans and explained why she had not been active on the social network for a while. She tweeted on Wednesday, “Hi […]

Achebe: Hometown quiet as kinsmen mourn demise

Posted by admin Headlines Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

All was quiet at Ikenga Ogidi, the hometown of the literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe, when our correspondent visited on Friday morning. An old woman who claim to be the writer’s sister in-law was seen around Achebe’s house located on the way to Abatete. The black iron gate of the high perimeter fence was securely […]

Oduamadi late strike denies Kenya victory over Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

The African champions Nigeria needed a dramatic equaliser to draw 1-1 with Kenya in their 2014 Group F World Cup qualifier in Calabar. Substitute Nnamdi Oduamadi scored three minutes into stoppage time to cancel out Francis Kahata’s first half free-kick for Kenya. It was the second draw in three games in World Cup qualifying for […]

Enyeama declares war on Harambee Stars

Posted by admin Headlines, Uncategorized Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

Goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama says the Super Eagles have put last month’s Africa Cup of Nations victory behind them and are ready to slog for World Cup qualification. Nigeria face Kenya on Saturday in a 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier, and the stand-in captain says the squad are focused in that game “For us the Afcon […]

Prof. Chinua Achebe dies at 82

Posted by admin Headlines, Top Stories Friday, March 22nd, 2013

Chinua Achebe Foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was 82. Reporters learnt he died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. The source declined to provide […]

Minister tasks federal hospitals on self-financing (So you can steal their budgets)

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, March 21st, 2013

THE Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, has directed all the chief executives of federal hospitals in the country to think of more innovative ways of financing their hospitals’ projects and programmes. Chukwu also directed them to seek suitable ways and means of having fruitful dialogue with the various professional ranks and groupings recognised by […]

Tinubu backs amnesty for terrorists Boko Haram

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, March 21st, 2013

Former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday in Kano called for the granting of amnesty to Boko Haram militants, insisting that they are not ghosts as alleged by President Goodluck Jonathan. Tinubu, the National Leader of Action Congress of Nigeria, who was in Kano to commiserate with the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado […]

We can no longer guarantee peace in the East – Ohanaeze

Posted by admin Headlines, South-East Thursday, March 21st, 2013

The pan-Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that it can no longer guarantee peace in the East in the face of the continued killing of the Igbo in some states in the North. The group said that stopping its youths from carrying out reprisal over the years, even in the face of extreme anger, […]

US arraigns al-Qaeda man over failed bombing in Nigeria

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Thursday, March 21st, 2013

The United States has instituted terrorism charges against Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun for allegedly planning to bomb its diplomatic buildings in Nigeria in 2003. Among the six charges instituted against him by the US government was also conspiracy to bomb its military personnel in Afghanistanin between 2002 and 2003. Forty-three years old Harun is […]

Opinion: Implication of Jonathan’s unpardonable pardons

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Headlines, Presidency Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

By Uche Igwe- A man who has no tincture of philosophy passes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from habitual beliefs of his own age or his nation, from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man, the […]