Headlines

‘Hamzat’s killing may not be connected with woman’

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Muslim community in Aiyepe, Ogun State hometown of the assassinated former Chairman of Ikeja Local Government, Lagos State, Alhaji Toyin Hamzat, has urged the police in the state to look beyond the clues they are currently working on in order to unravel what led to the recent murder of the politician. It also called on […]

Churches, mosques should pay tax – Falana (Amen)

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has canvassed that churches and mosques should begin to pay tax in the country. Falana, who expressed worry about the role of religious bodies in the fight against corruption, spoke against the backdrop of the acquisition of a jet by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Pastor […]

Ex-banker bows to pressure, suspends hunger strike

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

NOVEMBER 27, 2012 BY TEMITAYO FAMUTIMI Olubiyi Odunaro, the 53-year-old former employee of Hallmark Bank Plc., protesting against non-payment of his terminal benefit, on Monday suspended his 14-day hunger strike. The suspension of the protest followed spirited appeal by a representation from the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, and officials from the Lagos office of […]

National Stadium in ruins as festival begins

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

,NOVEMBER 27, 2012 BY ’TANA AIYEJINA 30 COMMENTS As the opening ceremony of the 18th National Sports Festival begins on Tuesday (today) in Lagos, it is shocking to note that the main bowl of the National Stadium, Surulere, venue of field events, has not been given a facelift by the organisers and officials of the […]

Ojukwu remembered a year after

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Monday, November 26th, 2012

From CHIDI NNADI and DAVID ONWUCHEKWA, Nnewi The late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu family yesterday attended a Holy Mass service at the Michael De Archangel Catholic Church, Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State to mark a year anniversary of the departed Igbo leader. Ojukwu died on November 26 last year in a London hospital after he was sick […]

Life without Ojukwu by Bianca: At Ikemba’s first year remembrance…

Posted by admin Biafra, Headlines Monday, November 26th, 2012

Life without Ojukwu by Bianca: At Ikemba’s first year remembrance… Our Reporter November 26, 2012 17 Comments » I’m coping like any other widow From CHIDI NNADI, Enugu In the last one year Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca, has lived without him, she said though it has been very challenging, she is nevertheless coping like […]

South Africa 2013: FG charges Eagles to go for cup, not jamboree

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, November 26th, 2012

By ROMANUS UGWU, Abuja President Goodluck Jonathan may have given the Nigeria Football federation (NFF), the technical crew and officials of the Super Eagles a tall order, as he ordered them to ensure that they bring back to Nigeria the South Africa 2013 Cup of Nations trophy. President Jonathan, warning the federation, players and officials […]

Unknown Gunmen Kill Christian Couple and Son in Kano

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Monday, November 26th, 2012

By SaharaReporters, New York Unidentified gunmen riding on motorbikes today waylaid a Christian family on their way to church in Kano killing the father, mother and their young son at the corner of Masalaci in Unguwar-Gano Yar’akwa area on the outskirts of Kano. The couple and their son were shot around 8:15 AM while driving […]

Ex VC of UNIZIK kidnapped in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Monday, November 26th, 2012

By SaharaReporters, New York Kidnappers today snatched Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN), a former vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka in Anambra state. Professor Okafor was kidnapped Sunday morning in front of residence at the Independence Layout in Enugu while on his way to church. The kidnappers later took off with him in a […]

Ogun police foil ATM robbery, recover N6 loot

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, Ogun, State News Monday, November 26th, 2012

Luck ran out of some robbers on Sunday in Sagamu, Ogun state South-West Nigeria when Police recovered a sum of six million naira looted from an ATM of a commercial bank. Reports say the robbers acting on hints that the machine has just been reloaded, blew open the ATM using methane gas and other dangerous […]