By Umar Yusuf Yola— Tension is mounting in Adamawa State as Igbo traders, yesterday, shut shops and other businesses to protest the killings of their kit and kins. The protest over the killing of an unidentified Igbo man almost turned violent as the protesters clashed with security agents. Most of the major streets in Yola, […]
By MONSUR OLOWOOPEJO IKEJA— Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, justified why the Federal Government must accord the state a special status in the revenue allocation formula, stressing that “Lagos is to Nigeria what the neck is to the body.” Fashola spoke at a state banquet to mark the 45th anniversary of the creation […]
KANO (AFP) – Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers outside the home of a controversial cleric in Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least one person and wounding others, the military and residents said. The attack in the northeastern city of Potiskum occurred outside the cleric’s home, where he leads prayers on Sunday evenings, but it […]
KANO (AFP) – Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead four traders from the mainly Christian Igbo ethnic group on Monday in the city of Yola, residents said, the latest in a string of such attacks. Islamist group Boko Haram has carried out scores of shootings and bomb attacks in northern, but it was not immediately […]
Date: Sun, 05/27/2012 – 15:43 Thirteen nationals of Niger Republic are to be repatriated by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) following their arrest by the Nigeria Police in Kano State. The Kano State Police Commissioner, Mr Idris Ibrahim, said the illegal aliens were arrested at 11:30 p.m. on the 5th of May, 2012, following a raid […]
former Delta State Governor, Chief James Ibori | credits: File copy Prominent lawyers have said the recent report that a British Metropolitan Police officer collected a £20, 000 bribe from former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, who is serving a 13-year jail term in the United Kingdom, is not a problem for Nigeria, since […]
A team of policemen attached to the Central Police Station, Onitsha, Anambra State on Friday shot dead four suspected armed robbers, who were noted to have been terrorising the city of Onitsha and Asaba. Saturday Tribune gathered that the suspects had organised themselves inside a thick forest in Omelumgbome, in Delta State where they wanted […]
DELTA State Government is set to engage the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the recovery of over N29billion owed it by 135 companies operating in the state. The state Internal Revenue Board said that the companies, which evaded various forms of taxes were, however, given two weeks to pay the debt or face the […]
Date: Fri, 05/25/2012 – 14:53 Justice Akintunde Boade of the Oyo State High Court yesterday in Ibadan said it was unconstitutional for the EFCC lead counsel, Chief Godwin Oblah, to engage a private prosecutor to represent him in court proceedings. The judge was giving a ruling in the alleged N11.5 billion scam suit instituted by […]
NEWS agencies on Wednesday reported that Scotland Yard had arrested three of the investigators that handled the fraud case involving former governor of Delta State, James Ibori. The arrested men were accused of receiving thousands of dollars in payments for providing information to Ibori’s lawyers. Ibori was sentenced on April 17 by Southwark Crown Court […]
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