Daily Archives: December 6, 2012

NCAA issues new flight certificates to Dana Air, Skyjet

NCAA issues new flight certificates to Dana Air, Skyjet
December 6, 2012 10 Comments »

Demuren, however, warned Dana Air management not to commence flight operations until it had paid 100 per cent compensation to those families who had processed and submitted their letters of administration to it for the air crash that led to ... Read More »

North’s joker for 2015 presidency

North’s joker for 2015 presidency
December 6, 2012 101 Comments »

Prominent Northern leaders, including former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, 2011 governorship candidate for Kaduna State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Bashir Bugaje, and former Governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, among others, Read More »

EFCC arrests Babalakin on hospital bed

EFCC arrests Babalakin on hospital bed
December 6, 2012 21 Comments »

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr. Wale Babalakin, since Tuesday evening in defiance of the order of a Federal High Court, which restrained the anti graft agency from going ahead with ... Read More »

Ojukwu: Onyemelukwe didn’t write my father’s Will –Emeka Jr

Ojukwu: Onyemelukwe didn’t write my father’s Will –Emeka Jr
December 6, 2012 40 Comments »

The heir of the late Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Emeka Jr., yesterday debunked the defence put up by Mr. Emeka Onyemelukwe that all family members were invited before the late Ikemba Nnewi’s Will was read. Emeka Jr said both Onyemelukwe and ... Read More »

Dangote Cement shuts down Gboko plant…Alleges dumping of imported products

Dangote Cement shuts down  Gboko plant…Alleges dumping of imported products
December 6, 2012 28 Comments »

Management of Dangote Cement Plc has finalized arrangements to temporarily close down its four million metric tons per annum’s Gboko plant, blaming glut in the cement market for the action. The Group Head, Corporate Communication, Dangote Group, Anthony Chiejina who ... Read More »

Alleged rape of ex-NYSC member: Osun oba now to open defence

Alleged rape of ex-NYSC member: Osun oba now to open defence
December 6, 2012 37 Comments »

The Alowa of Ilowa in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State, Oba Adebukola Alli, who was standing trial over an alleged rape of a 23-year-old ex- National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member who served in his domain, has told ... Read More »

Cynthia: Freed pharmacist re-arrested

Cynthia: Freed pharmacist re-arrested
December 6, 2012 13 Comments »

One of the two pharmacists, exonerated last week of having hands in the murder of Cynthia Osokogu Udoka had deen re-arrested on the order of the Lagos State Government. This was disclosed yesterday by the state’s Commissioner for Justice and ... Read More »

Police nab ‘Tokyo’ factional leader of Oyo NURTW

Police nab ‘Tokyo’ factional leader of Oyo NURTW
December 6, 2012 11 Comments »

Oyo State Police Command has arrested Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, a factional leader of the state’s National Union of Road Transport Workers ( NURTW). His arrest was made public in Ibadan yesterday in a release issued by the Deputy Commissioner of ... Read More »

Victim bites robber to submission

Victim bites robber to submission
December 6, 2012 41 Comments »

Like the proverbial hunter that became hunted, an armed robbery suspect has told how he narrowly escaped death in the hands of his victim. A four-armed robbery gang had invaded the premises of a powerful politician in Lagos. The incident ... Read More »

Malaysian garden owners alert FCT CJ on arbitration

Malaysian garden owners alert FCT CJ on arbitration
December 6, 2012 4 Comments »

The Nigerian partners of the Malaysian Gardens Estate, Abuja who have been locked in a cold war with the Federal Capital Territory Administration has alerted the Chief Judge of the FCT about the failure of the FCT to file its ... Read More »