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Opinion: Justice for James Ibori

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Wale Sokunbi (08056180228 walesokunbi2003@yahoo.co.uk) Wednesday April 25 , 2012 Photo: The Sun Publishing More Stories on This Section Last week, a court in the United Kingdom did for Nigerians what our own judiciary could not do when it slammed a 13-year jailterm on former Delta State Governor, James Onanefe Ibori. Ibori, who had been on […]

Boko Haram: JTF discovers bomb factory in Kano

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines, Kano, State News Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Members of the Joint Security Task Force (JTF) in Kano State yesterday announced the discovery of a bomb-making facility believed to belong to members of the Boko Haram sect. Spokesman of the JTF, Lieutenant Ikedichi Iweha, disclosed this while conducting reporters round the said facility situated at Haye Hotoro Arewa, a suburb of the state […]

Picture: Sad story – Orphanage where robbers steal only female inmates

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Wednesday April 25 , 2012 •Inmates, officials and the corps member Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section An orphanage, run by a missionary couple in Esit Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, has become an instant attraction to armed robbers. Unfortunately, the robbers, maybe out of disappointment of not seeing […]

Power failure at Abuja airport: Senate summons PHCN, Julius Berger, others

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Legislature, Senate, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Senate yesterday summoned top managements of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), Julius Berger Plc and Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over failure by British Airways to land and disembark passengers for over one and a half hours last Saturday. Also summoned is the management of the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP). The […]

Picture: Man who lost hand in Kaduna blast curses bombers

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines, Kaduna, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Tuesday, April 24 , 2012 •Garba Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section Time, it is said, heals the wound. And so, softly and steadily, the victims of the Kaduna Easter day bombing are recuperating fast from injuries sustained in the heinous bomb blast which occurred many days ago. […]

Kidnapped Imo ex-speaker yet to regain freedom

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chief Godfrey Dikeocha, who was kidnapped by gunmen about a month and half ago is yet to be released. Dikeocha was abducted by armed men from his Oke Uvuru country home in Aboh Mbaise Local Government Area of the state on March 9, 2012 few minutes […]

Housewife delivers monster in Benue

Posted by admin Benue, Headlines, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A housewife and mother of nine children has delivered a monkey-like monster in Otukpo, headquarters of Idoma nation in Benue State. The bizarre delivery took place at the weekend at St Theresa Hospital Otukpo by the woman said to be the wife of a hunter from Oju local government area of the state. The abnormal […]

Ibori’s conviction in UK debases Nigeria’s judiciary – Lawyer (Is there a judiciary in Nigeria?)

Posted by admin Headlines, Judiciary, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

A lawyer, Olorogun Benson Ndakara, has described the recent conviction of the formal governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori, in the United Kingdom over money laundering as a shame on the Nigeria’s judiciary. In a brief encounter with Daily Sun, he faulted the country’s judicial system for freeing Ibori from the 170 count-charge filed […]

Boko Haram: Another bomb factory discovered in Kogi

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Kogi, Latest Politics, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

The Joint Task Force comprising the Army, State Security Services and the Police has discovered another bomb factory in a cave at Usomi village along Okene–Ogori/Magongo Road in Kogi State. The top state officer of SSS, who confirmed the startling discovery yesterday while speaking with newsmen at the state headquarters of the SSS in Lokoja, […]

Ibori’s legal team to appeal sentence

Posted by admin Delta, Headlines, State News Monday, April 23rd, 2012

By Emma Arubi WARRI—THE legal team of the former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori is to appeal the 13 years sentence handed him by a London court last week. A reliable member of the team and a Warri- based legal practitioner, who does not want his name in print, told Vanguard exclusively, that […]