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Picture: 52-year-old woman gives birth after 25 years marriage

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

December 5, 2012 by Simon Utebor Mr. and Mrs. Obamo. Inset, Obadunsin | credits: Simon Utebor At 52, when some women have already become grandmothers, the case of Mrs. Olukorede Obamo, a teacher in Ogun State, is different. Olukorode who got married 25 years ago just had her first child last week. Like other […]

Mursi flees presidential palace as protest grows

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Egyptian police battled thousands of protesters outside President Mohamed Mursi’s palace in Cairo on Tuesday, prompting the Islamist leader to leave the building, presidency sources said. Officers fired teargas at up to 10,000 demonstrators angered by Mursi’s drive to hold a referendum on a new constitution on December 15. Some broke through police lines around […]

Police dismisses rumour of another bomb explosion in Abuja

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

Abuja- The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday dismissed rumour of a bomb explosion at a shopping complex in Lokogoma, a settlement in the Federal Capital Territory. The Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Frank Mba, who dismissed the rumour during an interaction with newsmen in Abuja, described the unfortunate incident as false alarm. Mba said that […]

Women protest in Ibadan; decry violence against women, children

Posted by admin Headlines, Oyo, State News Tuesday, December 4th, 2012

By OLA AJAYI, IBADAN – Scores of women marched round major streets of Ibadan calling on legislators to make laws on violence against women. The women under the aegis of Zonta Club International, Zonta Club, Ibadan and Oyo State Officers Wives Association who were observing sixteen days of activism as declared by the United Nations […]

Shell will not return to Ogoniland

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Monday, December 3rd, 2012

DECEMBER 3, 2012 BY CHUKWUDI AKASIKE 2 COMMENTS THE Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People has said Shell Petroleum Development Company will not return to Ogoniland for oil exploration. The Chairman of MOSOP Provisional Council, Prof. Ben Naanen, said this on Sunday while debunking claims that the oil giant was planning to begin oil […]

Nigeria beat Mali to qualify for African tourney in Morocco

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, December 3rd, 2012

DECEMBER 3, 2012 BY KAZEEM BUSARI 9 COMMENTS Golden Eaglets Coach Manu Garba | credits: mtnfootball.com Nigeria have qualified for the Africa U-17 football championship holding next year in Morocco after the Golden Eaglets beat the Young Eagles of Mali 2-0 at Stade Kanoute in Bamako on Sunday. The Eaglets had beaten the Malians 2-0 […]

4 female NYSC members kidnapped in Rivers, rescued by police

Posted by admin Headlines, NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Rivers, State News Monday, December 3rd, 2012

From CHRIS ANUCHA, Port Harcourt Four female members of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) were at the weekend, kidnapped in Rivers State. They were, however, rescued by a team of security agents. They were abducted at the NYSC Transit Camp, Iriebe, near Oyigbo, by a gang of seven armed men that gained entry into […]

Fresh fears over Gov. Suntai

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Taraba Monday, December 3rd, 2012

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, may have suffered extensive brain damage. As a result, he allegedly failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany, an authoritative source has […]

Nigerians own 200 private jets

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, December 3rd, 2012

•Spend N1.3trn on aircraft By PETER ANOSIKE Nigerians have invested about N1.3 trillion in the acquisition of private jets in the last three years, according to the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers (NIESV). The institute disclosed this in Lagos recently at an international seminar on plants and machinery valuation with focus on aircraft, […]

17 die in multiple attacks in Borno

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Monday, December 3rd, 2012

…As JTF kills another Boko Haram commander From TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri No fewer than 10 people died in Borno at theweekend following multiple attacks by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram sect. Security sources hinted that at Mbwa, a small community in Chibok Local Government, South of Borno, seven people including three Christian worshippers were […]