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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. […]

N78m scam: SFU investigates allegation against Bayelsa Assembly

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

From FEMI FOLARANMI, Yenagoa There is uneasy calm in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly over the investigation of a petition against members of the House by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police. A group, Transparency and Good Governance Coalition (TGGC), in a petition by U. F. Mohammed and addressed to the […]

Govt vows to defend citizens, Akinyemi, Imoke decry Bakassi’s handover

Posted by admin Cross River, Headlines, State News Friday, August 24th, 2012

THE Federal Government has vowed to defend the sovereignty of the country as calls for a review of the judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICT) on Bakassi Peninsula continued yesterday. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, who stated the government’s position, however, re-affirmed Nigeria’s respect for the […]

Gunmen attack Yobe prison, injure policemen, civilians .

Posted by admin Headlines, State News, Yobe Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

ALTHOUGH the military Joint Task Force (JTF) is up and doing in the seven troubled wards of Damaturu metropolis in Yobe State, gunmen have struck again. They attacked the Satellite Prison in the area with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and petrol-bombs and wounded four policemen guarding the building, as well as two residents. Eyewitnesses said […]