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by Isi Esene Sina Kawonise, the Ogun State commissioner for information under former governor Gbenga Daniel, and current managing director of the Nigerian Compass has been shot in the leg by gunmen. One of his two police orderlies also sustained gunshot wounds. The attack reportedly took place earlier on Tuesday around Ikeji Arakeji in Osun... Read More
by Isi Esene Reverend King, the general overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, yesterday took his case to the Appeal Court after being convicted and sentenced to death in 2007 by Justice Joseph Oyewole of Ikeja High court. Reverend King, also known as, Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, was arraigned in September 2006 on charges of murder and... Read More
A primary school headteacher killed herself in her office less than six months after starting the job, her devastated family revealed today. Helen Mann, 43, is understood to have hanged herself in Sytchampton Endowed First School, Worcester, shortly after 4.20pm yesterday, after leading a teaching training session earlier in the day. No pupils are believed... Read More
by Isi Esene There are reports of violent protests at Coker Road, around Ilupeju area of Lagos Tuesday afternoon when a policeman allegedly shot a commercial motorcycle operator for evading arrest. The cyclist had successfully evaded the policeman’s attempt to arrest him when he was surprisingly shot dead. Other motorcycle operators reportedly protested the killing... Read More
James Washington almost got away with murder. The Nashville man, in prison on an unrelated sentence, made what he thought was a death bed confession when he suffered a heart attack, admitting to the murder of Joyce Goodener on July 5, 1995, according to WSMV. Washington believed he wouldn’t live to face the consequences. Turns... Read More
When Alfonso Manzo wore a Red Cross jacket around Staten Island last week, people may have assumed he was helping others. The police say he was actually helping himself, and merely wore the jacket to make it easier to burglarize homes evacuated because of Hurricane Sandy, according to the New York Daily News. Manzo, 49,... Read More
by Isi Esene Vice President Namadi Sambo’s visit to Buanchor, in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State, brought nothing but grief to Bessie Obi on Friday as sand and wind propelled by his helicopter caused the collapse of her mud-house. The 78-year-old woman quickly ran out of her house wailing over the misfortune... Read More
by Rachel Ogbu The clash between law enforcement agents and commercial bike riders in Lagos state seems to be on going. Yesterday horrified passersby watched as a man called Sunday Udoh, 38, stripped himself naked to evade arrest by law enforcement agents for violating the new Lagos State Traffic Law. Udoh who is a commercial... Read More
by Isi Esene While the federal government is busy tweaking its terrorism engagement strategy, the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, have reportedly attacked the Yobe town of Gashua, Tuesday morning. There were reports of loud noises of explosions and gunfire earlier today which necessitated a heavy deployment of military personnel to the area. This deployment has... Read More
The Federal Government has amended its borrowing plan for infrastructural development, reviewing its proposed debt profile up from $7.9bn to $9.3bn between 2012 and 2014. The government will source a total external loan of $9.3bn from this year to 2014 to develop infrastructure, particularly in the agricultural, housing, education, health and transport sectors. Minister of... Read More
by Isi Esene The Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika yesterday in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital put the figure of people killed by the violent activities of the Boko Haram sect at 3,000. Ihejirika, who was represented by the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 2 Mechanised Division of the Army, Maj. Gen.... Read More
by Isi Esene Governor Abiola Ajimobi yesterday sacked three commissioners from his cabinet for their “ineffectiveness”. The dropped commissioners are Yunus Akintunde (Works and Transport); Bosun Oladele (Information and Orientation) and Kazeem Adedeji (Trade, Investment and Cooperatives). The sack was announced by the secretary to the state government, Waheed Olajide, after the state executive council... Read More
by Isi Esene These public figures never cease to surprise us, yesterday, it was Jumobi Mofe-Damijo unleashing a butterfly tattoo on her right bossom; today it’s Governor Babatunde Fashola showing a very public display of affection (vPDA) to his wife, Abimbola at the closing ceremony of the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials meeting. Who... Read More
by Isi Esene The Kogi Emergency Management Agency is complaining over the difficulty it is facing in trying to identify genuine victims of the flood disasters which affected many homes and communities in the state. The secretary of the Agency, Alice Ogedengbe, said m,any people who are not victims of the flood have stormed the... Read More
by Isi Esene Anyone who is interested in contesting the 2015 presidential elections does not have to fear locking horns with Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, because the governor has declared he is not interested in it. The governor said this yesterday at an interactive session with reporters. He said his only interest is in... Read More
by Onoshe Nwabuikwu I know some people have been drawing attention to how the US government has tackled Hurricane Sandy. I wouldn’t go that far. Some Nigerians live ‘inside’ DStv by imagining they’re part of a civilised world. Whether we know it or not, Nigeria is still a third world country and a very badly... Read More
by Isi Esene The neck-to-neck struggle for supremacy in the US presidential election continues with both Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney getting five votes each in the tiny New Hampshire town of Dixville Notch. This was the time in history that the first in the nation votes are resulting in a tie... Read More
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