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Guber polls: In Ondo, it’s battle in the sun

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Friday, September 21st, 2012

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE & DAYO JOHNSON THIRTY days to the October 20 governorship election in Ondo State, the leading contenders are upping the ante to out-do one another. The ruling Labour Party Candidate and Governor of the state christened Sunshine State, Olusegun Mimiko is not sparing any arsenal in his bid to surmount the mounting […]

FG flags off N10m Abuja pedestrian bridges project

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

BY Favour Nnabugwu The Federal Government has flagged off the construction of six pedestrian bridges, estimated to cost N10million in various parts of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememem, at the event in Abuja, yesterday, said government was committed to safeguarding the lives of its citizenry. The six bridges are […]

Mikel returns for Liberia

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

Coach Stephen Keshi has included Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi for next month’s AFCON clash, it has been gathered. Mikel opted out of the first leg in Monrovia, which finished 2-2, when it was first learnt that the game would be played on an artificial turf. According to top officials of the glass house Coach Stephen […]

Editorial: Nigerians deserve protection in foreign countries

Posted by admin Headlines Wednesday, September 19th, 2012

IT is time the Nigerian government adopted strict measures to stop the incessant harassment of Nigerians in different parts of the world. Intimidation, arrests, detention, torture and killing of Nigerians in foreign countries have gone on unchallenged for years and should no longer be tolerated. Our nonchalant attitude towards the treatment of Nigerians – especially […]

Pictures: ‘My soldier husband brutalised me, took my kids away’

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

-Punch A woman, Maryrose Onuigbo, has urged the Nigerian Army authorities to prevail on her soldier husband, Kenneth Onuigbo, to reunite her with her children. “I don’t want any other thing on earth apart from being reunited with my three children,” Maryrose said. Maryrose told PUNCH Metro that Kenneth, an army sergeant attached to 81 […]

Floods destroy 400,000 farmlands, 36,000 houses in Jigawa

Posted by admin Headlines, Jigawa, State News Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

No fewer than 400,000 farmlands and 36,000 houses have been destroyed by floods in Jigawa, the Chairman of the state Flood Control Committee, Alhaji Abdulkadir Jinjiri, said. Meanwhile, over 750 persons have been rendered homeless in Kaduna, following a heavy rainfall in the state which swept away more than 300 homes. Jinjiri, who gave the […]

Gunmen kill nine in Bauchi attack

Posted by admin Bauchi, Headlines, State News Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

No fewer than nine persons were killed on Sunday in Zango area of Bauchi metropolis following an attack carried out in the area by gunmen. Seven others were injured in the midnight raid. An eyewitness said five people died on the spot and four died at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital Bauchi while receiving […]

Ex-militants fault third phase amnesty list

Posted by admin Headlines, Niger Delta Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

A group protesting its exclusion from the amnesty granted the ex-Niger Delta militants by the Federal Government has kicked against the proposed inclusion of less than 4,000 of its members in the proposed Third Phase Amnesty programme. Our correspondent learnt on Monday that members of the group met at Ohoro Secondary School, Delta State to […]

Picture: Nigerian becomes first black VC in American varsity

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

A United States of America-based Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Ilesanmi Adesida, has become the first black man to be appointed the Provost/Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States of America. Born in 1949 at Ifon, a town in Ondo State, Adesida, a professor of Electronic Engineering with outstanding works […]

Disturbing Pictures:Dead child found in man’s suitcase

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Tuesday, September 18th, 2012

-Punch The police have arrested a man, Usman Inuwa, with the corpse of a three-year -old child in a suitcase. The suspect resident in Bwari, a satellite town in Abuja, was said to have been arrested by security personnel after a tip-off at Maitama area of the city. He was said to have been accosted […]