A Nigerian man, Ozioma Kenneth Odeomenan has been arrested in New Delhi India with 330g of heroin worth $120,000 concealed in ladies shoes he was to export to America. According to India police report, Ozioma was arrested after an anonymous tip-off they got on the 14th of April that a Nigerian man carrying hard drugs was coming to the Janakpuri metro station. A ... Read More »
This is from premiumtimes There is controversy over the rescue of abducted school girls in Borno with the state government and the school principal faulting the military’s claim that most of the pupils have been freed The claim by military officials in Abuja on Wednesday that 107 abducted girls of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) Chibok were freed is ... Read More »
The vice president, Arc. Namadi Sambo, yesterday said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will recover Ekiti and Osun states and the entire South West ahead of the governorship election in 2014 and general elections in 2015, declaring that the party is heading for war. Sambo, who lamented that the states were stolen from the PDP, however, assured that the principle ... Read More »
As the syndrome of ‘ghost’ workers and students continue to be the order of the day in Nigeria, the government of Niger State, has narrated how it lost over N125million to ‘ghost’ students through a scholarship scheme. Gov. Babangida Aliyu During a recent verification exercise, the state realised that no fewer than 7,000 students purportedly on its scholarship payroll does ... Read More »
The Nigerian military is joining the search for at least 100 teenage girls abducted from a school in Chibok, Borno State. It is thought that Islamist militant group Boko Haram took them to a forest near the Cameroonian border. The air force, army, police and local volunteers are all involved in the search, officials say. The BBC’s Hausa Service says ... Read More »
Culled from Premium times Security operative smashed the camera of a photo-journalist taking the photograph of the ailing delegate. A National Conference delegate, Abubakar Abdulmumuni, on Tuesday slumped and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Abuja for medical attention. Mr. Abdulmumuni slumped after the plenary session of the Conference a few minutes after 6 p.m. while emerging from ... Read More »
Former BCC Lions and Super Eagles midfield star Moses Kpakor has dispelled rumours that he died in Monday’s twin bomb blast in the Nyanya area of the Nigerian capital city, Abuja, which officially claimed 75 lives. Writing yesterday evening on his Facebook wall, Kpakor, who is presently Senior Football Coach, Benue State University, Makurdi, described the claim as baseless, as ... Read More »
Lagos lawyer and rights activist, Mr Ebun-Olu Adegbouruwa, yesterday, called on Nigerians to hold the Lagos State Government and all those who have vested interests in the Lekki Ikoyi bridge toll fee, responsible for any harm that may come his way, following the invasion of his Lekki home Monday night by eight armed men. Adegbouruwa in a statement, said: “On ... Read More »
Gunmen, yesterday, invaded the house of the Speaker of Kogi State House of Assembly, Mr. Momoh Lawal Jimoh, at Okengwe, in Okene Local Government Area of the state and kidnapped two of his children. The gunmen, who were said to have gained entrance through the fence, also looted the speaker’s house and carted away valuables including jewellery, television sets and ... Read More »
I completely condemned the bomb attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a satellite community on the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. This is very inhuman, ungodly and barbaric. I don’t even have the adjectives to describe what these mad people have done. As far as I am concerned, the perpetrators are not human beings and in ... Read More »
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