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 […]
June 6, 2012 by Segun Olatunji, Abeokuta 6 Comments The resumption of the trial of former Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Tuesday was stalled by the failure of the leading prosecuting witness, Babatunde Adeluola, to appear in court. Daniel is facing 38 counts of corruption, stealing, illegal […]
The police in Plateau State on Monday confirmed that two bombs were discovered in the premises of a hostel at the University of Jos on Sunday. The Police Commissioner, Mr Emmanuel Ayeni, said the officers were able to detonate one of the bombs while the second exploded, injuring no person. He said, “When my officers […]
By GBENGA ARIYIBI ADO-EKITI—Teachers in Ekiti State, yesterday, dared the state government, as none of the 16,000 teachers in the employment of the state government showed up for the controversial compulsory test. The government had issued a statement, via a state-owed radio, warning the teachers not to test its power by refusing to participate in […]
Abuja -The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday arraigned Timipre Sylva, ex-governor of Bayelsa at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sylva is standing trial for alleged misappropriation of N6.46 billion state funds. The anti-graft agency had in a suit number HC/ABJ/CR/23/2012, claimed that Sylva and others now at large and committed the […]
THE Bauchi State chapter of the Christian Association has accused soldiers of killing worshippers after a suicide bombers attacked the Living Faith Church and Harvest Field Church on Sunday. CAN also disputed the casualty figure given by the police in last Sunday’s suicide bombing that occurred at Living Faith and Harvest field churches in […]
A Dana Airline passenger plane, carrying 147 passengers, has crashed into a residential suburb of Nigeria’s commercial capital of Lagos. The plane coming from Abuja, crashed into three buildings, one of them a newly built storey building. It burst into flames. The crash happened at about 3 p.m Nigerian time. There are no survivors as […]
By Daud Olatunji It was another tragic day on Lagos-Ibadan expressway, yesterday, as 24 vehicles were burnt after an articulated vehicle carrying fuel fell and caught fire. In the resultant gridlock, thousands of passengers, including the wife of the governor of Oyo State, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, and a former deputy speaker of Ogun State House […]
BAUCHI, Nigeria, June 3 (UPI) — A suicide car bomber in northern Nigeria killed 12 people Sunday at a Pentecostal church, witnesses said. The number of people injured in the blast in the city of Bauchi was not reported. Witnesses told the BBC a man attempted to drive a car through the fence at Harvest […]
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