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NDLEA nabs man with cocaine in anus at Lagos airport

Posted by admin Headlines, NDLEA (Anti-Drug Agency) Friday, August 3rd, 2012

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Obivuko Ifeanyi, with 210grams of substances that tested positive for cocaine. Obivuko, who inserted the drugs into his anus, was detected with the aid of a body scanner during the inward clearance […]

London 2012: Man fined for racial abuse to Nigeria

Posted by admin Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Friday, August 3rd, 2012

PETRAS Lescinskas, who was arrested during the Lithuania-Nigeria match, has pleaded guilty to racially aggravated offence. The Lithuanian man who gave a Nazi salute during an Olympic basketball match has become the first person to be convicted of a racially aggravated offence at the Games and fined £2,500. He was told that his behaviour and […]

Fashola signs Lagos Road Traffic Bill into law

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Ikeja – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Thursday in Ikeja signed the Lagos State Road Traffic Bill into law. The governor assented to the bill at a ceremony attended by members of the executive council, top officials of the police and those of other traffic management agencies. Fashola said the new law was […]

Canadian firm, Niger Govt to raise 26m chickens yearly

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Niger, State News Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

Minna – The Niger Government has completed a partnership arrangement with a Canadian firm to produce 26 million chickens annually, the state Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Dr Mustapha Lemu, has said. Briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting on Thursday in Minna, Lemu said that the collaborative arrangement followed discussions between […]

Farmer, 20, remanded for robbing police officer

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered a 20-year old farmer, Mtomga Atem, to be remanded at the Federal Prisons Benue, for robbing a police officer. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Dan Ogo, gave the order shortly after the accused was arraigned for trial at the court. Prosecutor Michael Ewoh told the court that the […]

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Thursday, August 2nd, 2012

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said. Obama’s order, approved earlier this year and known as an intelligence “finding,” broadly permits the CIA and other U.S. agencies to provide […]

Pictures: Gov. Obi in Toronto admonishes Nigerians to be good ambassadors

Posted by admin Anambra, Governors, Headlines, NNP News, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Filed by New Nigerian Politics (Toronto Bureau) Governor Peter Obi addressing members of the Anambra State Progressive Association (ASPA) at its annual convention in Toronto over the weekend, urged Nigerians to be good ambassadors in their adopted country, to be selfless and assist their fatherland at every opportunity. The two-term governor elated at the immense contributions of […]

NNP’s statement on the brutalization of its columnist by soldiers

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]

Sharks FC in road accident enroute to Kaduna

Posted by admin Headlines, NNP News, Rivers, Soccer, Sports, State News Tuesday, July 31st, 2012

Filed by New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics has just been reliably informed that Nigeria’s Premier League Division 1 outfit, Sharks FC of Port-Harcourt, has been involved in a road accident enroute to Kaduna to honour their league match against Kaduna United FC in a midweek encounter. According to the source on the ground who spoke to […]

In picture: Bank driver arrested with 19 ATM cards, N652,000 in cash

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, July 30th, 2012

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Dare Oladujoye, a driver with Zenith Bank, for allegedly being in possession of 19 Guaranty Trust Bank ATM cards and the sum of N652, 000. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect was using the cards to withdraw money from an ATM at Ogba branch of GTB when a […]