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FOUR persons standing trial over the kidnap of the father of a former Secretary to the Delta State Government, SSG, Chief Arthur Okowa, were Friday sentenced to 45 years each, bringing the total number of the jail term to 180 years. In addition, they are to serve their jail with ...

The vulture was on an espionage mission for the Tel Aviv regime, the media stated, adding that the bird had a leg band with labels that read in Hebrew, �Israel Nature Service� and �Hebrew University, Jerusalem.� The equipment fastened to the vulture was capable of taking photos and sending them ...

The board of directors of the Nigeria Security Printing and Minting Company (NSPMC) met yesterday over the scandal that rocked the establishment where it was revealed that a whopping N2.1 billion of newly printed N1,000 notes have mysteriously gone missing. The board meeting, chaired by the Central Bank of Nigeria ...

It is indeed a national disgrace to the acclaimed Giant of Africa that something like this is still happening in this 21st century in our country, yet Mr President and his co-travelers�are comfortable to waste a whooping N2.2bn to build a new banquet hall, while the existing banquet hall gets ...

Nearly 15 years after the death of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria�s former military ruler, the Swiss Government has said that it has so far returned to Nigeria the sum of $700 million stolen by the late dictator and deposited in several Swiss banks. The Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Hans-Rudolf ...

Police say a homeless man found decomposing in a basement freezer in central Indiana had been drinking, doing drugs and having sex with the man now suspected in his death. Court documents say 52-year-old Walter Logan told police that he and Alex Shipp ending up fighting at his home in ...

The victorious Golden Eaglets breezed into the country Tuesday�s evening from Bamako where they secured the ticket to the 2013 African Under-17 Championship to be held in Morocco. The team contingent led by Alhaji Muazu Suleiman, the chairman of NFF�s Referee Committee,� arrived Lagos�� about 4:00pm aboard ASKY Airlines and ...

Today, the Vatican announced that on December 12, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Benedict XVI (@pontifex) will be the first Pope to join Twitter. Beginning now, people everywhere will have a chance to Tweet questions relating to faith and belief using the hashtag #AskPontifex. Questions ...

The�commissioner�of Police, Bayelsa State Command, Mr.�Kingsley�Omire, has announced the�existence�of�a list�of 150 persons including�politicians�and ex-militant leaders suspected to be sponsors of some dreaded cult groups and�violent crimes�in the state, declaring that the listed person are under security watch and may be arrested soon. Omire said the list, which has received the ...

The House of Representatives on Thursday ordered an investigation into a ‘multi-billion naria’ mansion said to belong to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Godsday Orubebe. The�property, located at Mabushi in the Federal�Capital�Territory, was said to have been built for the minister by a construction firm, SETRACO. The House ...

Governor Danbaba Suntai of Taraba State, who was seriously injured when his plane crashed on October 25 in Yola, capital of Adamawa State, has suffered extensive brain damage and failed to recognize members of a presidential delegation that visited him at a hospital in Hanover, Germany, an authoritative source has ...

Joseph Akindele, a middle aged man left people’s mouth agape when he confessed killing his friend, Mufutau, to relieve him of the persistent pain and agony he was going through due to an undisclosed ailment, affirming that Mufutau is now happy in death. Akindele was arrested with a bag containing ...

House of Representatives, yesterday, threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, over her refusal to honour invitations from its Committee on Pensions. Members of the committee also want the Finance Minister to explain her role in the take-over of Police Pension Fund ...

According to a new ranking released by Africa.com, University of Lagos is the 9th best University in Africa. Cairo University is the still the best University in Africa. 1. Cairo University � Egypt 2. American University in Cairo � Egypt 3. Mansoura University � Egypt 4. Makerere University � Uganda ...

A revelation that may rattle the Igbo race and indeed all Nigerians may soon be made over the death of the late Biafran leader and warlord Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu. The Ikemba Nnewi died last year in a London hospital and was given one of the most honorable burials in ...

The Late girl who goes by the name: Annabel, Was said to be returning from a birthday party of a friend of hers�which was held at 4040 nite club, Owerri, with some of her friends. They left in the wee hours of the morning despite pleas from the celebrant for ...

The two pharmacists arrested in connection with the July 22nd murder of Cynthia Osokogu have been released unconditionally by a court in Lagos. Maduakor Chukwunonso and Orji Osita (pictured above) who are pharmacists at Oxpharm Pharmacy where the drugs used in sedating Cynthia was bought, were released based on the ...

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) tweeted earlier today that a BRT bus conveying passengers across the Third Mainland Bridge, had fallen off the bridge into the Lagos lagoon. Their tweet reads…�A fully loaded BRT bus fell off the 3rd mainland bridge into the Lagos lagoon, 26-11-12. Rescue work in ...

I cast my vote for Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah and Pastor Tunde Bakare in their demosthenic vitriol against spiritual megalomaniacs whose modus vivendi has become increasingly byzantine and repulsively narcissistic. We must all begin to deprecate this razzmatazz and Nestorian braggadocio in the “HOUSE OF GOD” because when there is ...

Kidnappers today snatched Professor Ilochi Okafor (SAN), a former vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) Awka in Anambra state. Professor Okafor was kidnapped Sunday morning in front of residence at the Independence Layout in Enugu while on his way to church. The kidnappers later took off with him in ...