Daily Archives: October 11, 2012
UNIPORT 4: Angry students invade Aluu community
No fewer than 30 vehicles were burnt yesterday at Omuokiri community, Aluu, Rivers State when angry students, under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students, stormed the community to avenge the death Read More »
Soldiers take over Aluu community
Soldiers have taken over Aluu community, where four students of the University of Port Harcourt, were murdered in cold blood last Friday. This is even as residents of Omuokiri are counting losses Read More »
Mark to Jonathan: We won’t rubber stamp budget
After much dilly-dallying, President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, presented a N4.9 trillion 2013 budget estimate to the joint session of the National Assembly. The Appropriation Bill, tagged ‘Budget of Fiscal Consolidation Read More »
Bakassi: FG had 7 grounds to appeal –C’River govt
As protests continued to trail the failure of the Federal Government to appeal the International Court of Justice(ICJ) judgment that ceded Bakassi Penunsula to Cameroun, the Cross River State Government Read More »
FG to refine 90% crude locally by 2014 – Alison-Madueke
The Federal government has announced plans to increase the local production capacity of refined crude at the nation’s three refineries located in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt to about 90 per cent of installed capacity Read More »
Ohanaeze, Arewa leaders meet in Enugu
The Igbo apex socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, and its northern counterpart, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), yesterday in Enugu rekindled hope in the continued existence of Nigeria as one indivisible entity Read More »
Nigeria’s major problem is leadership –Bankole
Former speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole has identified that Nigeria’s major problem is leadership. Read More »
Bakassi: We were not consulted –NBA
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has distanced itself from the eight-member presidential panel set up to advise government on the Bakassi reclaim exercise neither was it consulted to examine the case before Read More »
Gunmen kill 2 FRSC officers in Kano
Two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were yesterday, ambushed and killed by gunmen suspected to be of the Boko Haram sect in Kano Read More »
Court remands Oni’s aide over attack on teachers
Mr. Lere Olayinka, an aide of the ousted governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, was on Tuesday remanded in police custody on the orders of Chief Magistrate Adegboye Richard of the Ekiti Magistrate Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti Read More »
