Daily Archives: October 7, 2012
Woman, 52, delivers quintuplets
It was a grey and wet morning. It had been drizzling and ominous dark clouds hung on the horizon threatening to unleash a deluge. I kept praying and hoping against hope that Mother Nature would hold back its watery fury ... Read More »
Infant, 19 wedding guests die in auto crash
It was a tragic end for 20 commutters in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, as they died in an auto crash at the Abeokuta- Siun-Sagamu Expressway. The accident involved a Hiace bus belonging to a popular transport company in the state ... Read More »
Deadly robbery gang in Lagos
Imagine a million-man gang storming a community for robbery operation! It definitely is hell on earth. But this is what makes Lagos tick, or Lagosians jittery, as a new set of robbers known as ‘One Million Boys’ have laid siege ... Read More »
Achebe’s new book controversy: Civil war hasn’t ended –Okorie
As controversy rages over Prof Chinua Achebe’s new book, “There was a country”, prominent Igbo leaders have taken sides with the literary icon. Those who spoke to Sunday Sun agreed that the celebrated author of “Things Fall Apart” was right ... Read More »
Tears from Taraba: Poisonous snakes, deadly flood
If recent figures and bitter experiences of victims are anything to go by, then the recent flood that hit six local government areas in Taraba State, killing 28 and affecting almost 200, 000 persons is no doubt, one of the ... Read More »
2015: Northern youth forum plans 5 million-man march for Jonathan
A youth association in the north, Northern Youths for Peace and Reconciliation , has condemned what it described as “the vaulting ambition of the elite in the north to shift power to the region at the expense of the South ... Read More »
2015: I‘m ready to die for Jonathan’s re-election–Senator Girrie
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna Senator Abubakar Girie represented Adamawa central senatorial district from 1999 to 2003, after which he tried his luck in the state’s gubernatorial race on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), but lost at the ... Read More »
PDP’s a party of rogues, ACN’s party of rebels–Olaniwun Ajayi, first republic politician
Sir Olaniwun Ajayi, a politician of the first republic and Knight of John Wesley (KJW) was disappointed at the subtle contrivances between the colonial masters and northern Nigeria which led to the rejection of calls for the creation of state ... Read More »
Ondo guber: The men who want Mimiko’s job
By the zero hour of Friday, 19th day of this month, the tenure of Governor Rahamon Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State shall officially come to an end and his job will be up for grabs. Of all the 12 candidates ... Read More »
Massacre of students in Mubi
Nigeria suffered its worst Independence Day tragedy ever last Monday as gunmen stormed hostels of three higher institutions in Mubi, Adamawa State, and killed about 48 students. Read More »
