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  • Ex-Lagos Deputy Governor Wanted For N130m Fraud - PM News Lagos

    By PM News, Lagos Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, former deputy governor of Lagos state has been declared wanted by the Police Special Fraud Unit (SFU), in Lagos, over an alleged fraud of N130 million. Mrs. Ngozi Isintume-Agu, DSP, spokesperson of the unit said in a statement that Sinatu was wanted along with her son, Samson Ojikutu, who is now in the United States of America. "We are ...

  • Fear of post-election violence in Benin

    Benin's Constitutional Court today started examining the opposition's claims of vote rigging after the elections had given a surprise outright win to the incumbent. Observers fear "Ivorian conditions" in ...

  • Nigeria farmers double cassava yields

    Nigerian farmers have more than doubled the yield of cassava, thanks to new varieties and a little bit of "juju" delivered to the Oyo state after a food crisis in ...

  • Nigeria not yet at food sufficiency destination – Jonathan

    President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday admitted that his administration had yet to reach the desired destination in its quest to eradicate hunger in the country through food ...

  • ‘150000 Nigerian children born annually with sickle cell’

    Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said Nigeria has the highest burden of sickle-cell anaemia with over 150,000 children born annually with ...

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Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

As a raw, provocative portrayal of the horrors of black poverty in America, Lee Daniels Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is drawing sharply mixed responses, with some praising what they see as its brutal honesty while others view it as ... ...

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  • We’ll stamp out kidnapping – Lagos CP

    Manko, who was represented by the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Admin), Mr. Felix Ogundeji, at the inauguration of the Lekki Police post, said this in Lagos on ...

  • Niger Delta amnesty ends in 2015 – Kuku

    Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has said the Federal Government is finding it difficult to stop the amnesty programme initiated for ex-militants in the Niger ...

  • Child Trafficking Dramatic story of suspects’ arrest

    By Uju Mbanusi IT is longer news that those recently paraded as members of a child trafficking syndicate at the Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, were arraigned at the Apapa Family court on Thursday, May 30, 2013. It is also no more news that three of the defendants, Benedette Ogbonna, Chibueze Mba, and Adaeze Mba who were alleged to be directly involved in the stealing and selling of ...

  • The NIALS’ epochal summit

    By Awa Kalu, SAN It would be intellectually dishonest to attempt a summation of what transpired at this epic summit, considering the sheer breath and scope of the ideas which were freely exchanged at the intellectual market place. Perhaps, it would serve as a pointer to the fertility of those ideas were one to choose a typical session, the session on Law and Global Peace, integrated with Law ...

  • Condemned criminals Waiting for govs and hangmen

    By Dayo Benson & Abdulwahab Abdulah The call by President Goodluck Jonathan last Sunday on state governors to sign death warrants of condemned inmates in prisons across the country has again brought to the fore the lingering controversy on the issue. At a special ceremony to mark the 2013 Fathers' Day organized by the Aso Villa Chapel, President Jonathan urged governors not to run ...

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