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Lagos recalls 788 sacked doctors

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Friday, June 1st, 2012

Lagos State Government reversed its dismissal of 788 doctors in its employ. The state government, through the Head of Service, Adesegun Ogunlewe, said in a statement on May 6 that the decision to sack the doctors resulted from their refusal to answer the queries issued to them to explain why they were absent from work […]

Court condemns 3 to death for stealing (Is the punishment for stealing death in Nigeria?)

Posted by admin Ebonyi, Headlines, State News Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Abakaliki -A High Court in Abakaliki on Wednesday sentenced three men to death by hanging for stealing. The condemned men Chukwuma Idenyi, Nwobodo Omebe and Monday Ekwe of Izzi and Abakaliki Local Government Areas dispossessed their victims the sum of N180, 925. Delivering the judgment, the Judge, Justice Paul Elechi, held that the prosecutor proved […]

Italian expatriate kidnapped in Ilorin

Posted by admin Headlines, Kwara, State News Thursday, May 31st, 2012

Ilorin – An expatriate working with Borini Prono Construction Company has been kidnapped in Ilorin, Kwara State. The victim, who was said to have gone to inspect an ongoing road construction at Bishop Smith road, was whisked away by his abductors at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday to an unknown destination. The Police Public Relation […]

Supreme Court evicts Jang from Govt House

Posted by admin Headlines, Judiciary, Plateau, State News Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

May 31, 2012 by Jude Owuamanam Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang vacated the newly-renovated Governor Lodge and Office, Jishe, Jos because the March 23 Supreme Court ruling had declared Nasarawa State the owner of the property, investigation has revealed. The governor’s sudden relocation from the property recently sparked rumours he might have fled because of […]

OF UNI-LAG, MAU-LAG, Moshood Abiola and Null Issues – By Philips Akpoviri

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Philips Akpoviri., State News Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

By Philips Akpoviri | NNP | May 30, 2012 The pronouncement was made only few hours ago, but given the controversy it left in its trail, it is no longer news that Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan resting on the powers conferred on him as the President of Nigeria has effectively re-christened theUniversityofLagosas somewhat of a […]

Police rescue 96-yr-old woman from suspected kidnappers in Enugu

Posted by admin Enugu, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

By TONY EDIKE ENUGU—THE anti-kidnap squad of Enugu State Police Command has rescued a 96-year-old Mrs. Theresa Okafor, who was abducted from her Imezi Owa village in Ezeagu local government area of Enugu State last Wednesday. The victim, who is the mother of a retired Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Dr. Anthony Okafor, was […]

Protests as FG renames UNILAG after Abiola

Posted by admin Lagos, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Anger and protest on Tuesday greeted the decision of President Goodluck Jonathan to rename the 50-year-old University of Lagos after the acclaimed winner of the 1993 presidential election, the late Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola. The renaming of UNILAG, now Moshood Abiola University, Lagos, after the late business mogul, came 14 years after the citizens […]

Picture: Father of slain Osun poly student seeks justice

Posted by admin Headlines, Osun, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

May 29, 2012 by Tunde Odesola, Osogbo Rev. Adekunle Balogun-Arogunjo, the father of slain Diploma II student, Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, has asked government to ensure the killers of his son, Adeola, are brought to justice. Balogun-Arogunjo, who spoke with our correspondent in Osogbo on Monday, however, thanked the school’s authorities for “ensuring the arrest […]

A’Ibom, C’River land dispute clash claims 40 lives

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

No fewer than 40 persons were feared dead, while four riot policemen and the village head of Ntan Obu Ukpe in Eniong of Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State were allegedly beheaded in a renewed communal clash between Ntan Obu, Cross River and the Ikpanya in Ibiono Local Government, Akwa Ibom State. Already […]

Oshiomhole sues magazine for N250m over sex allegation

Posted by admin Edo, Headlines, State News Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Edo State Governor Adams Oshiomhole on Monday dragged News of the People, a soft sell weekly magazine before a Benin High Court, asking for N250m as damages, for alleged libel. Oshiomhole, in suit No B/556/2011, against Dockland Communications Limited, publishers of News of the People magazine, alleged that the content of a material published […]