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Gunmen kidnap mother of Bayelsa speaker

Posted by admin Bayelsa, Headlines, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

From FEMI FOLARANMI, Yenagoa The mother of the embattled speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Mrs Betinah Okunwa Benson has been kidnapped. Sources said the 70-year-old woman was kidnapped at Korokorosei, Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state. The Speaker, Konbowei Friday Benson had been having a running battle with a non-government […]

France ready to stop Malian rebels

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

FRANCE is ready to stop Islamist militants who control northern Mali if they continue their offensive, French President Francois Hollande has said. However, Mr Hollande said France would only act under UN authorisation. He was responding to a plea by Malian President Dioncounda Traore for help to counter a renewed rebel offensive. Earlier, an emergency […]

In Abia, the war against crime rages on

Posted by admin Abia, Headlines, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

Bank gives five Toyota double -cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets to the state THE fight against insecurity in Abia State was boosted at the weekend with a donation of five security Toyota double-cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets by First Bank of Nigeria Plc. to the state. The Managing Director of the […]

Imo begins fumigation of 23 flood-affected communities

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

TO prevent an outbreak of diseases, the Imo State government has begun fumigation of 23 communities ravaged by flood last year. The State Chairman of Flood Management Committee and Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Obi- Njoku, is leading in the exercise. Obi- Njoku said the exercise was necessary in view of the rising high cases […]

Again, hope dims for Eco’s takeoff in 2015

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, African Union (AU), Headlines Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

THE take off date of the common currency in the West African Region, the Eco, may again be shifted from the planned January 2015 if presentations by the Nigerian government, the West African Monitoring Institute (WAMI), the West African Monetary Authority (WAMA) and the ECOWAS Commission Monday at the 34th meeting of the Technical Committee […]

Jonathan’s wife flown to Germany

Posted by admin First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan Monday, January 14th, 2013

Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, was on Monday flown to Germany for what a Presidency source said was for a check-up. Fears over Mrs. Jonathan’s health spread last year when he was away from the country for weeks. She was said to be in […]

Lawless and backward Saudi behead underage Sri Lankan maid

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 13th, 2013

(CNN) — Rizana Nafeek was a child herself — 17 years old, according to her birth certificate — when a four-month-old baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia. She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family. Although Rizana said the baby died in a […]

Bomb scare at Port-Harcourt International Airport

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines, Rivers, State News Sunday, January 13th, 2013

THERE were anxious moments last Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport when a passenger on board a Lagos-bound Aero aircraft attempted to disembark from the plane at the point of take-off. His action triggered off suspicion in other passengers that he might have planted a bomb in the plane and was struggling to disembark […]

French military action in Mali widens

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, January 13th, 2013

13 January 2013 Last updated at 16:54 ET Share this pageEmailPrint France Rafale jets target Gao in eastern Mali France has deployed warplanes in Mali Continue reading the main story Related Stories RAF plane leaves on Mali mission Hollande: ‘Mission not finished’ Watch Mali crisis: Who’s who? French warplanes have bombed the town of Gao […]

Chime: Merchants of lies and their sundry campaigns

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Sunday, January 13th, 2013

By Adol Omeje SILENCE, they say, is sometimes golden. Over the past few months, both the regular and social media have been inundated with stories, rumours, conjectures, speculations and outright lies concerning the absence of Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State. In all of this, one fact has remained glaring: The response from the Enugu […]