Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Supreme Court has thrown out a legal challenge by Felix Amadi, candidate of the African Political System Party, against Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi’s victory at the April 2011 governorship election in Rivers State. Amadi had filed the suit claiming that he was unlawfully omitted and excluded from contesting the election. The [...]
An air stewardess who was caught trying to smuggle a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine into the UK has been jailed for five and a half years. Chinwendu Uwakaonyenma Ogbonnaya, 29, from Lagos in Nigeria had flown into London’s Heathrow airport as a member of crew on an Arik Air flight from [...]
Men suspected to be members of the Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram struck early this morning in Ajaokuta, Kogi State, North Central Nigeria, killing four persons. A police station and a first generation bank were burnt by the group. Though a source claimed that it was a robbery attack, the incident had the trade mark [...]
At least five people have been shot dead on last Wednesday following a clash between two rival cult groups, the Eiye Confraternity and the Buccaneers. The two cult groups comprised students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, MAPOLY, formerly Ogun State Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria. The bone of contention, P.M NEWS reliably gathered, was that [...]
Three persons including a two-month old baby have been confirmed dead while five others are at the Casualty Unit of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital following a kerosene explosion. The explosion which occurred at 56, New Airport Road in Calabar South, took the life of a 15- year old boy, Christian Inyang on the [...]
A law suit filed by the Alaafin of Oyo town, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III praying for High Court 11, Ring Road, Ibadan to make him a permanent chairman of the Traditional Council of Obas, yesterday suffered a setback as the presiding judge, Justice Olabisi Ige, was absent in court. The former governor of Oyo State, [...]
Members of the National Democratic Coalition, NADECO, have urged the Federal Government to urgently convoke a Sovereign National Conference, SNC, to discuss the terms for peaceful coexistence among Nigeria’s ethnic nationalities, adding that there is no alternative route to peaceful coexistence. From this week, the association said it would intensify the sensitisation of the people [...]
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