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UNIPORT killings: Community counts losses after students’ rampage

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Thursday, October 11th, 2012

by Chukwudi Akasike 165 Comments Vandalised vehicles. Inset:Ahanonu in his burnt house. | credits: Chukwudi Akasike THE people of Omuokiri Aluu Community have begun to count their losses barely 24 hours after students from the University of Port Harcourt embarked on reprisals to avenge the killings of their colleagues. The angry students had on Tuesday […]

Policemen present at my son’s lynching – Mother

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Chinwe Biringa, mother of Chiadika, one of the four undergraduate students of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, who were lynched on Friday for allegedly stealing laptops and BlackBerry phones in Aluu community has said that policemen were present during the killings. Chinwe who spoke in a telephone interview during a public affairs programme […]

In picture: Aircraft, truck collide at Lagos airport

Posted by admin Aviation, Headlines Thursday, October 11th, 2012

A Kano-bound IRS Airlines plane departing the Lagos airport on Wednesday morning collided with an abandoned truck beside the taxiway, forcing the pilot to cancel the flight. The wing of the Fokker-100 aircraft, it was learnt, collided with the truck which fell into a drainage on Tuesday. The truck belongs to a Federal Airports Authority […]

Canada to assist Nigeria’s security agencies

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Canada is to assist in enhancing the operational capabilities of Nigerian security services to enable them respond adequately to internal and regional security challenges. This came as both countries agreed that effective political, economic, security and development cooperation among them would help to build a peaceful and prosperous Nigeria. They also committed themselves to promoting […]

Ohanaeze, Afenifere differ over Achebe’s attack on Awo

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Gbenga Adeniji 187 Comments Awolowo and Achebe | credits: More reactions on Monday greeted extracts from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest memoirs on the Nigerian Civil War with former Ohanaeze Ndigbo and Afenifere leaders disagreeing on Achebe’s attack on Chief Obafemi Awolowo. A leader of the Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, Senator Femi Okunrunmu, while reviewing the […]

623,690 residents displaced by Kogi flooding

Posted by admin Headlines, Kogi, State News Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

October 9, 2012 by Success Nwogu, Ilorin 10 Comments | credits: The Kogi State Emergency Management Agency said the number of displaced persons in the state had risen to 623,690. According to a statement in Lokoja on Monday by the Director, Ministry of Information, Mr. James Adedoyin, SEMA, in its latest report, said property estimated […]

My son’s killing will always haunt me –Llyod’s mum

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

October 9, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Mr. and Mrs. Toku in Port Harcourt … on Monday | credits: Chukwudi Akasike Mrs. Jane Toku, the mother of Lloyd, one of the four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt that were lynched at Aluu community in Rivers State, says her son’s death will always […]

RUN, not a reformatory – Adeboye

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

The Visitor to Redeemer’s University, Redemption City, Ogun State, Dr. Enoch Adeboye, is not known to be a tough talker. He is gentle and humble. But the man of God on Saturday almost lost his cool while addressing parents who graced the 4th convocation of the university. His grouse with some of them, according to […]

Uniport identifies, mourns slain students

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

October 9, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt 36 Comments Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Joseph Ajienka | credits: THE Vice-Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Joseph Ajienka, said on Monday that the institution had begun a seven-day mourning of the killings of their students by a mob. Ajienka, who […]

Fuel fraud: EFCC to arraign four more suspects

Posted by admin EFCC Politics, Headlines Monday, October 8th, 2012

By Soni Daniel Abuja — The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will today arraign another set of four fuel subsidy suspects in Abuja over the alleged fraudulent claim of N1,051,030,434,63 from the government. The suspects, who are to appear before Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the FCT High Court on a 17-count charge are AIhaji […]