Photo: Sun News Publishing Omotola and Toye kneeling before the decomposed body of Akinbuyi By: PHILIP NWOSU, MATTHEW DIKE and GILBERT EKEZIE Date: Thu, 07/26/2012 – 22:49 The entire Festival Town, commonly called FESTAC in Lagos was thrown into pandemonium on Thursday evening as a decomposing body of a man was discovered inside a duplex […]
By: PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi Date: Thu, 07/26/2012 – 23:40 It was a bloody day for the Bauchi State Police Command as gunmen yesterday killed three of its men on patrol along Bauchi Gombe Road. The gunmen made away with three police rifles after opening fire on the policemen on patrol. Two inspectors and a corporal […]
Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the legal tussle between Mrs. Patience Jonathan and her predecessor, Mrs. Turai Yar’Adua, over a plot of land in Abuja. ACN said, “A study in despicable sycophancy, insider abuse, arbitrariness and manifestation of the culture of impunity all of which have become the hallmarks of the administration of President […]
Ondo State Governor Olusegun Mimiko yesterday in Akure, the state capital, declared his intention to run for a second term under the platform of the ruling Labour Party (LP). Many of the guests, including notable Yoruba leaders, were absent. Among them were the daughter of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr Tokunbo Awolowo-Dosumu, and former […]
Aviation Minister Ms Stella Oduah has said the full restoration of the airfield lighting at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, will boost passengers’ and operators’ confidence. The minister spoke yesterday in Abuja after the inspection and inauguration of the newly rehabilitated airfield lighting project. She said this would improve air safety. Ms Oduah […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 26, 2012 – A major problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat. It comes not from any agricultural, manufacturing, scientific or technological endeavor. It results not from our resourcefulness, innovation […]
BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT – NO fewer than 20 houses, were, yesterday, set ablaze in Omudioga community, Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, when irate youths reportedly went berserk over the death of a youth, who was simply identified as Benjamin. Details at press time were hazy but community sources said the rampaging […]
Tragedy struck on Raufu Alajo Street, Agege, Lagos, on Wednesday when a 19-year-old bus conductor, Sulaimon Balla, was burnt to death in an abandoned mini bus. PUNCH Metro learnt that Balla slept in the bus which had been abandoned on the street for weeks on Tuesday night. It was gathered that street urchins in the […]
Fresh crack emerged among members of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly on Wednesday following an altercation between the Speaker of the House, Mr. Kombowei Benson, and the former Deputy Speaker, Mr. Fini Angaye. The incident occurred three weeks after power-brokers in the Peoples Democratic Party, including President Goodluck Jonathan, intervened in the impeachment saga […]
July 25, 2012 by Mike Odiegwu, Yenagoa 2 Comments Women from Koroama community in Gbarain clan, Yenagoa Local Government, Bayelsa State, on Tuesday barricaded a facility belonging to the Shell Petroleum Development Company in a protest that lasted for over four hours. Our correspondent learnt that the protest disrupted oil production in the facility, which […]
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