Daily Archives: October 10, 2012
UNIPORT Killings: P’Harcourt boils
Students’ protest over gruesome murder of four undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) snowballed into violence yesterday evening. As the protest degenerated into burning of houses and destruction of other property, the authorities of the UNIPORT hurriedly shut ... Read More »
Jonathan approves N17.6bn for flood victims
President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday announced the release of N17.6 billion direct financial assistance to flood-ravaged states. The President, in a nationwide broadcast, categorised the affected states into four groups, A to D, which would get N500, N400, N300, N250 million ... Read More »
Five Customs officers arraigned for murder in Ibadan
Five officers of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) were yesterday arraigned for killing a suspected smuggler in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. The accused were arraigned before Justice S. A. Akinteye at the Oyo State High Court Six on a ... Read More »
Ikoyi/Obalende: ACN candidate appeals against Obanikoro
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Lagos and its candidate for the Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area (LCDA) Chairmanship, Adewale Adeniji has appealed against a judgment of the Local Government Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos. ... Read More »
Man sentenced to death
A Delta State High Court sitting in Warri has sentenced one Eto Paul Ufuoma to death by hanging over the murder his neighbour, Julius Oforofuo, on June 12, 2000. Justice Marshall Mukoro who handed down the sentence, however, discharged and ... Read More »
Why Ondo people’ll vote for me, Mimiko
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has expressed confidence that the people would vote for him in the October 20 governorship election based on his track record of performance and longstanding relationship with them. Read More »
N3.7bn subsidy scam: 8 oil marketers get bail
Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday granted bail to eight of the indicted marketers in the oil subsidy scam probe. They had been arraigned last Friday by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Read More »
3 killed as Fulani, Berom clash again in Plateau
Fulanis and the Beroms have again returned to the battlefield as three persons have again been killed in two attacks carried out by the two groups in Barakin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State. Information gathered revealed that three ... Read More »
Police arrest man for using MASSOB number plate
Police in Ibagwa-Aka in Igbo Eze South Local Government Area, Enugu State, have arrested a member of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) for using Biafra number plate on his motorcycle. Mr. Obeta Anthony from ... Read More »
Mubi, Aluu killings: Descent to jungle times
Last week, Mubi in Adamawa State, a name which literally means peace, prosperity and progress, became a city of weeping, blood and gnashing of teeth. Can Nigerians hear the sound of wailings at this recent theatre of Nigeria’s descent to ... Read More »
