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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 […]

Court bans Zimbabwean PM from getting married

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 16th, 2012

THE Zimbabwean prime minister went ahead with wedding celebrations yesterday despite a court ruling that cancelled his marriage license on allegations that he would be committing bigamy. Morgan Tsvangirai, 60, and his bride exchanged vows and rings at a luxury convention facility in Harare but did not sign the legal marriage register. A court on […]

US orders embassy staff to leave Tunis, Khartoum

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, September 16th, 2012

The United States ordered non-essential staff to leave its embassies in Tunisia and Sudan on Saturday after both diplomatic posts were attacked and Khartoum rejected America’s request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at its mission there. “Given the security situation in Tunis and Khartoum, the U.S. State Department has ordered the […]