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Bakassi monarch kidnapped by gunmen in C’River
Palpable fear now grips residents of Bakassi community of Cross River State as one of its traditional rulers, Etubom Nyong Okon Effiom and one other person have allegedly been kidnapped by gunmen. This is barely one week after another prominent ... Read More »
Post-election violence: FG disburses N5.74bn to states
The Federal Government yesterday disbursed N5,747,649,780.00 to the states affected by the 2011 post-election violence and civil disturbances Read More »
UNN holds special Senate session for Achebe
The academic community would pay special tributes to the late Prof. Chinua Achebe as the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), hosts a special Senate session and academic procession for the late faculty member on May Read More »
Customs officer in sex-for-cargo mess
•He wants to sleep with me before our container is cleared – Rev. sister ...No, she is out to blackmail me – Officer Read More »
Police intensify search for Rhodes-Vivours, relocate to forest
Apparently under pressure from Abuja to rescue Mrs. Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour and her daughter from their kidnappers’ den, Edo State Commissioner of Police, Foluso Adebanjo, yesterday led a crack team of policemen to Ekiadolor/Ugbogui forest in search of the kidnap victims. ... Read More »
Road accident claims six, injures four in Bauchi
No fewer than six persons have been killed and four others injured following a ghastly auto-crash that occurred near Badaromo Village in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State. The Manager, Trauma Centre of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Mallam ... Read More »
Fuel subsidy protest: Killer DPO remanded in prison custody
Trial of the dismissed Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Yaya-Abatan Police Station, Lagos, Mr. Segun Fabunmi, began yesterday at a Lagos High Court, sitting in Ikeja. Fabunmi, who allegedly shot dead Adedamola Daramola on January 9, 2012, was arraigned before ... Read More »
Knights of St. Mulumba flay Fashola over congestion in Lagos prisons
…As council holds prison reforms conference May Read More »
Ogun shuts down 66 illegal health centres
No fewer than 66 illegal healthcare centres have been shut down in Ogun State as the government begins the war against quackery in the health sector. The state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Olaokun Soyinka disclosed this yesterday in Abeokuta, the ... Read More »
