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Opinion: Will Nigeria break up in 2015?

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, November 8th, 2012

November 8, 2012 by Bayo Olupohunda (bayoolupohunda@yahoo.com) In 2014, Nigeria will mark the centenary of the amalgamation of the Southern and Northern protectorates which gave birth to present day Nigeria. As a former colony of the British, the country has existed for close to a century after a forced marriage of convenience in 1914, half […]

Policeman loses 4 children to inferno in Gusau

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News, Zamfara Thursday, November 8th, 2012

Gusau – A police corporal, Jeremiah Yusuf, lost four children in a fire incident at Tudun-wada Quarters of Gusau, Zamfara, on Wednesday. Yusuf said a neighbour’s house where he was receiving sympathisers, that “I watched all my children burn helplessly before me and I could not do anything to save them.” Yusuf explained that he […]

Policeman kills bus conductor for stepping on him

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police, State News Thursday, November 8th, 2012

A yet-to-be identified policeman attached to the Alapere Police Division, Ketu, Lagos, on Wednesday allegedly shot and killed a bus conductor for stepping on him. Eyewitnesses said the policeman was standing at Tipper Bus Stop when the conductor stepped on him. The eyewitness said, “The policeman was in mufti. He challenged the man on why […]

Lagos offers okada riders job opportunities

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, November 8th, 2012

The Lagos State Government is working on a number of options to engage genuine commercial motorcycle operators, recently thrown out of jobs as a result of the implementation of the new traffic law, in meaningful ventures. The Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, dropped the hint in Lagos on Wednesday, stressing that the move was […]

Amaechi and Akpabio’s controversial new jets

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Rivers, State News Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

THE recent acquisition of private jets by the governments of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states is as reckless as it is highly insensitive. The massive waste of money is coming at a time when the rate of poverty and deprivation is worsening in the country. It is indefensible for state governors to add acquisition of […]

Picture: How ‘PhD holder’ lived, died in refuse dump

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

What exactly happened to Dr. Olawunmi Thorpe, an Ogun State indigene, who died a homeless man, may never be known. To passersby and residents, who saw Thorpe everyday in the rubbish dump beside the rail line at Fagba Bus Stop in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, he was a deranged man. But what […]

Historic Obama: Barack Obama re-elected

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Wednesday, November 7th, 2012

President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. The Romney campaign’s last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern […]

Communication – A Poem by Muhammad Ajah

Posted by admin Columnists, Headlines, muhammad Ajah Sunday, November 4th, 2012

COMMUNICATION By Muhammad Ajah (From his poem collection “Man in the Mirror”) Have I read the better Than Wordsworth of Cumberland? The flowing ideas that prick Blockheads, ignorance-home And freshens savants’ anxiety to impact Through logical strings of soft words Words-worthy for simplicity Wherefore can I liken the medium Between man and knowledge The orator […]

Moses Scores for Chelsea, as Man U beats Arsenal

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, November 4th, 2012

NIGERIAN international, Victor Moses scored his first Premier League goal for Chelsea, as the Blues laboured to a 1-1 draw away to Swansea at the Liberty Stadium yesterday. Moses struck with a header in the 61st minute to put Chelsea in the lead but were forced to settle for a share of the spoils […]

Okorocha knocks out nude clubs in Imo

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Sunday, November 4th, 2012

DISTURBED by the high level of immorality it has caused among Imo people, the State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has ordered the immediate closure of all clubs where women dance in the nude. Briefing journalists on Tuesday in Owerri, the state capital, Okorocha regretted that the state had been turned into ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ of […]