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Police uncover baby factory in Akwa Ibom Doctor pays pregnant girls N70,000 Sells their babies to ritualists

Posted by admin Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News Friday, April 13th, 2012

Written by Udeme Utip, Uyo Friday, April 13, 2012 POLICE in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, have uncovered a mysterious factory where young girls are made to conceive, give birth and the babies later sold to suspected ritualists and other members of the public in Uruan Local Government Area of the state. The new babies, Nigerian […]

5 killed in another Boko Haram attack in Borno

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Borno, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 • Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section No fewer than five people were killed in Banki, a border town in Borno State, during attacks said to be launched by the Boko Haram Islamist sect. The police also claimed to have killed five of the attackers. Daily Sun gathered […]

7 boys gang-rape girl, 15, in Rivers

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

A 15-year-old girl is lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital in Port Harcourt after she was allegedly gang-raped. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening in Rumuodumaya in Obio/Akpo Local Government Area of Rivers State. Already, no fewer than seven boys said to be in their early 20s have been rounded up by the Police […]

Four burnt to death in Lagos-Ibadan Expressway accident

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, Oyo, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

April 12, 2012 by Kunle Falayi Three adults and a child were burnt to death on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Wednesday after a bus lost control and burst into flames. According to eyewitnesses, the two front tyres of the Mazda bus burst and the driver lost control and hit a culvert between the AP filling […]

Gunmen kill Kaduna SSS pupil in mother’s presence

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Thursday, April 12th, 2012

Unknown gunmen in Kaduna on Wednesday killed a final year pupil of Imam Secondary School, Adamu Mohammed, at the Rigasa area of the state. It was learnt that Mohammed, a member of his school’s Man O War Club, was mistakenly killed as his killers suspected he was out to attack them. The deceased’s elder, Alhaji […]

North ‘ll retain Abuja if Nigeria breaks up – Junaid (2) (This must be a dreamer)

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Latest Politics, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

By Charles Kumolu and Gbenga Oke In the concluding part of this interview with a Russian trained medical doctor and political radical, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, he reiterated the North’s e readiness for National Conference. He also responds to the issues of Nigeria’s federalism that have recently dogged the polity. Excerpts: Appointment with Enahoro To show […]

Picture: Benue church collapse: Parish priest, victims recount experience

Posted by admin Benue, Headlines, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

BY PETER DURU MAKURDI — Adamgbe village in Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State is still in sombre mood following the Saturday’s collapse of St. Roberts Catholic Church on Easter eve which claimed the lives of 22 worshippers, comprising 16 women and six children. As inhabitants of the village continued to brood over the […]

Enugu govt denies reduction of school fees at ESUT

Posted by admin Enugu, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

By Tony Edike ENUGU—Enugu State Government has dismissed as untrue, speculations that it reduced school fees for students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, explaining that what government did was to increase the budgetary allocation to the institution to take care of its basic needs. The government said that fees payable […]

Elechi declares tomorrow public holiday to celebrate electoral victory

Posted by admin Ebonyi, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

ABAKALIKI — EBONYI State government yesterday declared tomorrow public holiday to enable it hold a special thanksgiving in appreciation to God over Governor Martin Elechi’s electoral victory in court. Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Chike Onwe, who disclosed this to newsmen, explained that the public holiday would enable every citizen of the state come […]

Lagos bizman committed suicide – Police

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Monday, April 9th, 2012

By Evelyn Usman Lagos — Police investigation into the discovered lifeless body of a businessman, weekend in Ajagbandi area of Lagos, yesterday, revealed that the deceased committed suicide. Although the deceased, Ahmed Omobumbe did not leave a suicide note, investigation by the Lagos State Police Command revealed that the man hung himself out of frustration. […]