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Tackling rape and sexual abuse in Osun

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Sunday, September 2nd, 2012

The incidence of rape has assumed a frightening proportion in recent times. TUNDE ODESOLA X-rays this sad development in Osun and Oyo states Rape has assumed a frightening dimension across the country in recent times, questioning the soundness of the human mind and its ability to cope with emerging challenges. A study conducted by a […]

FG designates Anambra oil producing state

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Friday, August 31st, 2012

August 31, 2012 by Emmanuel Obe and Olalekan Adetayo Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi | credits: History was made on Thursday when the Federal Government announced that Anambra State had joined the list of oil bearing states in the country. The announcement was made by President Goodluck Jonathan while inaugurating Orient Petroleum’s Anambra River Production […]

Protesting lawyers shut NBA Abuja conference

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Protesting lawyers, Thursday, shut the main entrance into the Abuja International Conference Centre, venue of the on-going Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, annual general conference. The protest, which lasted over two hours threw the entrance into conference venue and adjouring areas into confusion. The lawyers, who were protesting against 500 percent hike in conference fees since […]

Lautech: Osun House lauds Tinubu’s appointment as PDP kicks

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Thursday, August 30th, 2012

By GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO—The Osun State House of Assembly has applauded the appointment of the former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, by the two owner governments of Oyo and Osun describing the appointment as a unifying factor. In a statement signed by the Media […]

Suspected ritualists behead 16-yr-old girl in Anambra

Posted by admin Anambra, Headlines, State News Thursday, August 30th, 2012

By VINCENT UJUMADU AWKA — A 16 year-old Miss Nwanneka Odah was, yesterday, beheaded by a three -man gang suspected to be ritual killers at Nawfia in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. This came as the Awka branch manager of a new generation bank, (name withheld), Mr. Tochukwu Nnadi, was yesterday kidnapped about […]

Relocate us before demolishing our homes – Lagos community

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Residents of Okobaba, a community in Ebute Meta, Lagos State, have appealed to the state government to relocate them before embarking on the demolition of the area. PUNCH Metro learnt that the state government had during the administration of Bola Tinubu resolved to re-develop the area in line with the Lagos Mega City project. […]

15 killed in Kano floods

Posted by admin Headlines, Kano, State News Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Fifteen persons have been confirmed dead in floods which also destroyed property estimated of N120m in Kano State on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The state Rehabilitation and Emergency Relief Agency, which confirmed the deaths, added that over 2,000 persons were displaced. Director of Operations at the agency, Alhaji Shehu Maitama, told the […]

Police parade Ogun pastor over human skull

Posted by admin Headlines, Ogun, State News Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

The police in Ogun on Tuesday paraded Pastor Michael Oyewole (29) and Mathew Akiode (30) at the command’s headquarters Eleweran, for allegedly exhuming human skull in Sabo, Abeokuta. The state Commissioner of Police, Ikemefuna Okoye, told journalists that Akiode was caught committing the offence in the midnight. Okoye added that after Akiode’s arrest, the suspect […]

Opinion: Ibori bribe money? Give it to Delta

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Monday, August 27th, 2012

Dan Onwukwe (08023022170)( dan_onwukwe@yahoo.com ) There is always something about former governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori that rivets attention. Ibori is now serving a jail term in Britain after being convicted on charges of fraud, money laundering and corruption, by the Southwark Crown court 9. It’s all about his stories. Ibori’s stories have […]

Adamawa flood disaster: 15 bodies recovered from River Benue

Posted by admin Adamawa, Africa & World Politics, Headlines, State News Monday, August 27th, 2012

From DAVID MOLOMO, Adamawa Corpses of 15 persons swept away by flood, which followed heavy rains and unexpected release of water from Lagdo Dam in the Republic of Cameroon have been recovered from River Benue in Adamawa State. Daily Sun gathered that relations of victims recruited divers to help fish out bodies from the river. […]