May 18th, 2012 
admin PDP TO ACN: STOP PROMOTING FALSEHOOD
NEWS
leadership.ng – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described as the height of hypocrisy the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) statement alluding that the 2011 general elections were rigged.
The party said Read more »
May 18th, 2012 admin GUNMEN ATTACK PRIMARY, ISLAMIYYA SCHOOLS IN KANO
CRIME AND SECURITY
tribune.com.ng – Unknown gunmen, on Wednesday, attacked two schools, Ja’en Primary School and Farawa Islamiyya School, in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano State.
An eyewitness told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kano on Thursday that the incident happened at about 10.30 p.m. Read more »
May 17th, 2012 admin Busy schedule keeps Keshi out of Odemwingie’s wedding …Plans to invite 10 or 11 foreign pros for June encounter
sunonline.com – Super Eagles’ Head Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, has emphatically said that he would not attend Nigerian international, Peter Osaze Odemwingie’s forthcoming high-profile wedding billed for England.
Big Boss said tight schedule for the preparation of Eagles for various matches would not allow him to honour such an invitation if it had been extended to him.
Keshi, who dropped the hint Read more »
May 17th, 2012 admin POLITICS
sunonline.com – AS the most prominent traditional ruler in Yoruba land and the Diaspora, the Alaafin in history, had never been known to be silent when it was important for him to talk, in other words, the Alaafin had never been known to deprive mankind of his wise counselling with necessary admonition whenever it is important to do so.
For instance, it was at the instance of the Alaafin that the British intervened Read more »
May 17th, 2012 admin CRIME AND SECURITY
17 May, 2012
sunonline.com – The police in Lagos have arrested a popular musician, Osakuni Sunday Stereoman (aka Sample Ekwe) over the alleged murder of his estranged wife, Rekia, a mother of one. The couple started living separately last year when they could not resolve their differences.
Police sources said Rekia may have been killed on April 13, 2012. Her body was found Read more »
May 17th, 2012 admin POLITICS
17 May, 2012
sunonline.com – There appears to be no letup in the face-off between former Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari and the Presidency as the former alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan and the Federal Government were planning to arrest him.
Buhari made the allegation in an interview his political associate and national secretary of the Congress for Political Change (CPC), Buba Galadima Read more »
May 17th, 2012 admin CRIME AND SECURITY
vanguarngr.com – AWKA – A DEPUTY Director with the Anambra-Imo River Basin Development Authority, Owerri, Mr. Basil Ejezie, has been clubbed to death at his Umunze, Anambra State country home on a day members of his church were celebrating this year’s Fathers’ Day.
The late Ejezie, a Knight of St. Mulumba, KSM, was said to be attending Read more »
May 16th, 2012 admin TECHNOLOGY
vanguardngr.com – ABUJA — The Federal Government has entered into agreements with two French companies for the expansion of Nigeria’s transmission network, valued at about $200 million or N3.14 billion.
Under the agreements, which is said to have the blessing of the French Government, the companies will first undertake the feasibility studies for the transmission upgrade, and thereafter, select and construct a high voltage transmission line and substations.
The Memorandum of Understanding, Read more »
May 16th, 2012 admin CRIME AND SECURITY
thisdaylive.com – One of the two ships arrested last week with 1.3million barrels of stolen crude oil and destroyed by the Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has been linked to Croatia, THISDAY investigation has revealed.
It was also gathered that the Ship, MT ANE, which was built in 1986 and registered with the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), bore a registration number 8509703.
The vessel, which is classified Read more »
May 16th, 2012 admin SOCIETY
thisdaylive.com – History was made Tuesday, when in an unusual manner, a wholesome number of 100 couples were officially and properly wedded in a mass wedding ceremony that had all the trappings of a festival, nay carnival.
There are a thousand couples scheduled to participate in the rounds of marriages. But it was the turn of a hundred couples Tuesday, in what looks like a phased ceremony.
You may have heard of mass wedding, Read more »
May 16th, 2012 admin POLITICS
tribune.com.ng – THE Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Honourable Mohammed Gamunu, representing Edati constituency in the Niger State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, became the third speaker to be impeached by the assembly members since the inception of the incumbent administration of Dr Babangida Aliyu since May 29, 2007.
The impeachment of the embattled former speaker followed a motion of urgent public important brought by the chairman, committee on Read more »
May 16th, 2012 admin SOCIETY
tribune.com.ng- A 44-year-old civil servant, Mr Vitus Egemonu, on Tuesday, pleaded with the Grade `A’ Customary Court, Agege, Lagos, to divorce his marriage of 16 years over his spouse alleged disobedience, lack of respect and threat to life.
The father of five children, aged between six years and 15 years, and who lives at No. 9, Olowo Street, Papa Ashafa, Agege, Lagos, told the court that his voice had not been heard in his home in the Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin POLITICS
Dear Mr. President,
I write you this letter at a very critical time in our nation’s history; at a time the nation is enmeshed in dire security, political and social-economic challenges that one is tempted to say that we are at a cross road, and at the verge of being termed a failed nation. But while the situation appears most inertia and complicated, and Nigerians fast losing confidence in the instrument of governance, I humbly hold the optimism that these challenges Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin POLITICS
The predictions, the permutations on the demise of Nigeria in the squishy arrangement are already gathering some momentum in the country. The Prophets have joined analysts, the predictive indexes that Nigeria is on fire, which will consume the ‘White Elephant’ country refers to as the ‘giant’ of Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin (Written on Saturday, May 8, 2010, exactly 3 days after the President Umaru Musa ‘Yar’adua’s demise.)
I did not like President Umaru Musa Yar’adua when he was alive. For me, there was neither a sense of loss on the day he died, Wednesday, nor bereavement on the day he was buried, Thursday; though I gladly observed the public holiday, given that my job hardly allowed for annual leave. But it was on Friday that the folly of my actions or inactions dawned on me and had me berating myself, as I was consumed by sadness. I turned mournful, actually shed tears, for the departed soul of Mal. Umaru. May his soul Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin CRIME AND SECURITY
I am pleased to share my thoughts about two issues that confront our nation – terrorism and corruption. As a well-known opposition figure, I want to state clearly that the views expressed here are mine, and not of the political party I belong to – the Congress for Progressive Change. Secondly, my opinions are based on my interpretation of facts on the ground and research done by others, and not driven by politics.
At the crossroads that we have found ourselves as a nation, where a sitting government Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin POLITICS
sunnewsonline.com - Internal crisis among the supporters of Edo State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), yesterday turned tragedy, as one of the supporters was beaten to death with several others injured in Benin.
Conflict was said to have erupted from opposing members of the Edo State Drivers’ Welfare Scheme whose members were among those who barricaded the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to protest an alleged Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin AFRICA
allafrica.com – Ensuring the full equality of women and girls will make a significant contribution to reducing hunger and malnutrition in Africa according to a new report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
“Where women have less power than men do, nutrition suffers, household security weakens and access to healthcare lags,” says the UNDP’s first-ever Africa Human Development Report.
Entitled, “Towards a Food Secure Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin EDUCATION
hotnaijanews.com – The 44 lecturers of the University of Ilorin reinstated by the Supreme Court have applied for an order of the Ilorin Federal High Court to commit the vice chancellor and three other officials of the university to prison, for neglecting to obey the judgment of the Supreme Court delivered on December 11, 2009.
The Supreme Court had, in the judgment, reversed the sack of the lecturers by the university in 2001, but the lecturers were claiming that the school had refused to grant them all their Read more »
May 15th, 2012 admin Polytechnic staff to retire at 65, while university academic staff members retire at 70
dailytimes.com.ng – President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the Bill for an Act entitled, Retirement Age of Staff of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education (Harmonisation) Act, 2012.
This law harmonises the compulsory retirement age of staff of Polytechnics and Colleges of Education to 65 years and exempts them from the Public Service Rule which requires a person to retire from the Public Service after serving for 35 years.
Jonathan also assented to the Bill Read more »
