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Kenya: Gunmen open fire at mosque near Somali border

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Seven people have been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in a village in north-eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, officials have said. Villagers told the BBC that 10 gunmen opened fire as people were leaving the mosque after early morning prayers. Five men were killed and then two women who heard […]

Opinion: Sports minister’s earthquake Super Eagles’ magic

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Uncategorized Thursday, February 21st, 2013

FEBRUARY 22, 2013 BY ’TUNJI AJIBADE(TUNJIOA@YAHOO.COM) There is a need for two standing ovations. One is for Nigeria’s Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi. The other is for the Super Eagles. Mallam Abdullahi’s should precede that of the Eagles. It’s because earlier on the minister had championed something, before the Super Eagles championed something else, winning […]

Man accused of buying human hair escapes lynching

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, February 21st, 2013

What exactly will make a man go from a salon to salon collecting people’s hair in exchange for money? This is a question that only a 60-year-old man, Adewale Okunade, a landlord of a house on Segun Olatunji Street, Ijoko, Ota, Ogun State, has its answer. Okunade, who hails from Oyo State, narrowly escaped being […]

Angry youth stone monarch, beat chiefs over death of young people

Posted by admin Ekiti, Headlines, State News Thursday, February 21st, 2013

THE youths of Emure Ekiti Thursday protested what they called incessant deaths of young people in the community. The angry youths, who made several bonfires in community and disrupted the market, stoned the traditional ruler the Elemure of Emure, Oba Emmanuel Adebowale Adebayo, a retired Commissioner of Police while trying to pacify them. The youths […]

Customs arrests professor with $1.1m at Lagos Airport

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

BY DANIEL EFEGHE OPERATIVES of the Nigeria Custom Service, NCS, Murtala Muhammed International Airports, MMIA, Command, Wednesday arrested a passenger with $1.1 million at MMIA, Lagos on his way to Kenya. This came as the command intercepted over $12.1 million from 14 persons who tried to smuggle money out of the country in contravention of […]

LASU graduates 23 1st class, 1106 2nd Class Upper, others

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

By BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE & IKENNA ASOMBA LAGOS — TWENTY-ONE out of 8,160 of the Lagos State University, LASU, who graduated Wednesday, bagged First Class Honours, while 1106 others made Second Class Upper. Vice-Chancellor of the university, Professor John Obafunwa, who disclosed this at the award of diplomas and degrees during the school’s 18th Convocation ceremony, […]

F/Eagles down ‘Junior Pharaohs’ in Cairo

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Nigeria’s Under-20 team the Flying Eagles gave an indication they are set to defend their 2011 African Youth Championship title next month in Algeria, when they thrashed their Egyptian counterparts in Cairo Wednesday. The match played at the Degla Stadium outside Cairo was staged to prepare both teams for AYC, starting off on March 16. […]

APGA Canada calls for interest in executive positions

Posted by admin All People Grand Alliance (APGA), Headlines, Party Politics Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Vote For ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) The Party With New Innovation APGA CANADA CHAPTER MEMBERSHIP Newsletter Greetings, APGA Canada wants to use this opportunity to inform fellow Nigerians that as part of our mandate to bring political participation to the people and sustain a long lasting democratic process in our country Nigeria; APGA Canada […]

France asks citizens to leave Cameroon

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

PARIS (AFP) – France on Wednesday urged its citizens to leave northern Cameroon after seven members of a French family were seized in a kidnapping officials suspect was carried out by Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram. The family — a couple, their children aged five, eight, 10 and 12 and an uncle — were snatched […]

Gunmen kidnap six foreigners, demand $1.3m ransom

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

LAGOS (AFP) – Gunmen who stormed an oil service ship in southern Nigeria have kidnapped six foreigners and demanded a $1.3 million ransom for their release, police told AFP. “Three of those abducted are from Ukraine, two from India one from Russia… One of the kidnappers called to demand the sum of 200 million naira […]