Daily Archives: November 26, 2012
S’west politics: Mimiko, Oyinlola, Fayose in secret talks
Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and two former governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti and Osun states, Mr Ayodele Fayose and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola respectively held a private meeting at the weekend at the Okuku home ... Read More »
Ojukwu remembered a year after
The late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu family yesterday attended a Holy Mass service at the Michael De Archangel Catholic Church, Umudim, Nnewi, Anambra State to mark a year anniversary of the departed Igbo leader. Ojukwu died on November 26 last year ... Read More »
Life without Ojukwu by Bianca: At Ikemba’s first year remembrance…
In the last one year Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow, Bianca, has lived without him, she said though it has been very challenging, she is nevertheless coping like any other widow in the world Read More »
Ifeanyi Ubah drags Access Bank, Coscharis before N’Assembly
Managing Director/CEO of Capital Oil & Gas Industries Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Patrick Ubah has dragged Access Bank to the House of Representatives over a breach of the Central Bank of Nigerian (CBN) law governing the grant of loans it secured ... Read More »
New Pope: With Onaiyekan, Africa now has 11 voting Cardinals
The appointment of John Onaiyekan, the Kabba, Kogi State-born cleric as cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, has again reopened a new vista for Nigeria in the universal Church. The question on the lips of Catholics and non-Catholics alike since ... Read More »
Man forces wife to drink petrol, sets her ablaze ‘…No, she killed herself’
Pandemonium broke out in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State at the weekend when a man set his wife ablaze for complaining to her sister-in-law on phone about the husband’s alleged maltreatment . The suspect later reported himself to ... Read More »
Ojukwu’s head rested on Biafra’s rising sun crest in his gold casket – Uwazuruike
Today, November 26, is one year after the Igbo leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu died in a London hospital. Ojukwu was buried by the Federal Government in a state burial at his Nnewi ancestral home after week-long burial activities that took ... Read More »
PDP sweeps Benue LG election
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has recorded massive victory in last Saturday’s local government elections, which took place in all the 23 local councils of Benue State. Chairman of the Benue State Independent EleCtoral Commission (BSIEC), Prof. Philip Ahire, had ... Read More »
Ex-militants, JTF, amnesty office at loggerheads
Another controversy is brewing in the Niger Delta region, as ex-militants are at loggerheads with the Amnesty office and the Joint Military Task Force (JTF), ‘Operation Pulo Shield’ over exclusion of some militants from the amnesty programme. The ex-militants in ... Read More »
The proposed national carrier
The plan by the Federal Government to float a national carrier to boost air travel in the country is timely. Revealing this to newsmen in Port Harcourt, the Director of Airport Operations, Captain Henry Omeogu, said plans had already reached ... Read More »
