Month: April 2015
What Ndi Imo Did On Saturday In The Interest Of Ndigbo
By Mac Durugbo On Saturday, April 25, 2015, the last lap of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections was…
Wanted: A New Lease For Education
There is so much to be done by the incoming administration to be inaugurated on 29 May, 2015. In every…
Rivers LGA polls: 27 Political parties ready for polls, PDP boycott
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Despite the planned boycott of the local government by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the Rivers State…
Eze Amaechi abducted in Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt The Rivers state police command has confirmed the abduction of Eze Samuel Amaechi, the monarch of Igbo-Agwurasa…
Ogun Police Smash Robbery Gang
An anti-robbery team at the Ogun State Police Command, Eleweran, made a major breakthrough when it smashed a 10-man robbery…
Danger Looms In Ejigbo As Petrol Leaks From NNPC Pipelines
Cyriacus Izuekwe Residents of Ejigbo and Diamond Estate in Isheri Olofin are now living in fear over the danger of…
62 Abandoned Babies Rescued In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga At least 62 babies abandoned by their mothers on the streets of Lagos have been rescued by the…
Australian trafficker marries before Indonesia execution
An Australian drug trafficker married his girlfriend Monday on the Indonesian prison island where he is set to be executed…
Fire destroys N23bn property, kills 157 in Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Fire has destroyed estimated properties worth N23.02 billion and has killed 157 people in Lagos state in the…
Hazard wins PFA Player of the Year award
Chelsea midfielder Eden Hazard’s impressive season was recognised by his peers when he won England’s Professional Footballers’ Association Player of…
5 more die of gin poisoning in Ondo
A total of 23 people have now died from ethanol poisoning blamed on locally brewed gin in southwest Nigeria, the…
Sudan’s Bashir reelected with 94.5% of vote
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was reelected on Monday with 94.5 percent of the vote in polls he had been widely…
Onitsha: Police smash 4-man robbery gang
The Police in Okpoko community near Onitsha, have smashed a four-man armed robbery gang that has been terrorising residents of…
I’ll work with opposition for greater Imo – Okorocha
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo and winner of Saturday’s governorship election has extended a hand of fellowship to his opponents…
Ondo State deputy gov. Alli Olanusi impeached
The Ondo State deputy governor, Alhaji Alli Olanusi, has been impeached by members of the state House of Assembly this…
Challenges for PM Abe, as polls produce only 4 female mayors
Local elections in Japan produced just four female mayors of the 222 positions up for grabs, results showed Monday, underlining…
Spare Filipina on death row, Pacquiao begs Indonesia
World boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao took time out Monday from final preparations for his $400 million megafight with Floyd Mayweather…
Court freezes ex-Reps 11 bank accounts over N100m debt
Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, has ordered eleven commercial banks in Nigeria not to…
Bar NDDC from accessing 2015 budget, Activists tell court
Jethro Ibileke/Benin A group of Niger Delta Activists, Civil Rights Lawyers and Non Profit Organizations, have dragged the President…
Jay Z heads to Nigeria in search of musical talents
Rap and business mogul Jay Z said his new company Tidal has embarked on a talent hunt in Nigeria. He…
Reduce cost of governance, lawmaker tells Assembly
A newly-elected member of the House of Representatives, Mike Etaba, said the 8th National Assembly must facilitate Bills and oversight…
Arsenal, a boring team, says Mourinho
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claimed that Arsenal were more deserving of the “boring” epithet after his team closed on the…
Pedestrian bridge collapses, kills 7 in Kano
No fewer than seven people were killed in Kano on Sunday when a pedestrian bridge at Dorayi quarters, Kano, collapsed,…
IDPs commend Borno on feeding, welfare
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno on Sunday commended the state government for its free feeding arrangement for displaced persons…
Re-run: PDP wins Delta Central Senatorial election
Ighoyota Amori of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has been declared winner of the Delta Central Senatorial election. Announcing the…
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NNPC: I’ll probe missing $20 billion- Buhari
Efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan administration to close the curtain on allegations of unremitted $20billion into the national coffers by…
Ignore political defectors, Primate tells Buhari
The Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, the Metropolitan and Primate of Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), has urged President-elect Muhammadu Buhari…
APC rejects Taraba guber result, heads to tribunal
The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the just-concluded governorship election in Taraba, Sen. Aisha Alhassan, has rejected the results…
PDP prepares self for opposition, sets up 5 committees
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara has set up five committees to reposition the party after its defeat in…
Buhari won’t disappoint Nigerians, APC promises
Eromosele Ebhomele The All Progressives Congress (APC), on Sunday, said it would not disappoint Nigeria and her citizens irrespective of…