Potiskum (Yobe) – Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed the Deputy Leader of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Degubi. The Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Police Command, Mr Adamu Salihu, confirmed the killing of the legislator. “We have not ascertained those behind the killing and their motive. “Investigation is going on […]
Kano – Gunmen have shot dead six persons at Rimin Kebe in Tudun Murtala, Ungogo Local Government Area of Kano. An eye witness in Kano on Tuesday said that the incident, which happened at about 10:00 p.m on Monday, left many others seriously injured. The eye witness said the suspected gunmen stormed the area with […]
AKWA Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio on Sunday said he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management of Dana Air before the unfortunate plane crashed at Iju-Ishaga, Lagos on June 3. The governor regretted that his warning was not heeded. Akpabio told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, that he intimated the […]
June 11, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade, Ibadan Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi | credits: Oyo State Government said on Sunday that it had sacked 3,000 workers over certificate forgery and age falsification among other offences. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said the workers were sacked to […]
June 11, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam and Adelani Adepegba large crowd gathered at the rubble of Lord’s Chosen Church in Jos on Sunday. | credits: No fewer than 12 persons were killed in separate attacks on churches in Jos, Plateau State and in Biu, Borno State, on Sunday. The Christ’s Chosen Church of God building […]
Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said that in spite of the security challenges in the country, the Nigerian environment remains suitable for local and foreign investments. Speaking while playing host to an Austrian business delegation led by that country’s Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Mr Michael Spindelegger, the governor submitted that, “in terms […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, admitted the former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, to bail in the sum of N100million with one surety in like sum. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had slammed on him a six-count criminal charge bordering on corruption and money laundering, an offence contrary […]
A Lebanese working with Rock Bridge Construction Company, Mohammed Dhabre, was on Wednesday, kidnapped by unknown men on the company’s premises on the Otukpo-Igumale area of Benue State. According to an eyewitness, Dhabre was on the premises of Rock Bridge that fateful day when gunmen, numbering about 10 stormed the site around 3.00p.m in a […]
AS members of the Boko Haram sect intensify their terror campaign in the North, with the recent bombing of a church in Bauchi, where over 10 persons lost their lives, authorities of the Bayelsa State police command, on Thursday, in Yenagoa, began the auctioning of abandoned vehicles to checkmate any attempt to plant Improvised […]
June 6, 2012 by Eniola Akinkuotu 14 Comments There was pandemonium in the Mushin area of Lagos on Monday evening as men suspected to be members of the Odua Peoples’ Congress and some Hausa youths in the area clashed. PUNCH Metro learnt that although no one was killed, many sustained varying degrees of injuries while […]
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