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  • Ondo female legislator suspended over fetish objects possession

    By DAYO JOHNSON AKURE -- A female member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Fola Olasehinde was, yesterday, suspended indefinitely for being in possession of fetish objects including miniature coffins. The suspended member is representing Ose council area of the state constituency. Her indefinite suspension was announced on the floor of the House by the Deputy Speaker, Dare Emiola after a ...

  • OAU female student caught allegedly flushing baby down toilet

    BY GBENGA OLARINOYE Ile-Ife -- Authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, yesterday, reportedly apprehended a female student of the institution (names withheld) who allegedly attempted to flush her new born baby down a toilet. Vanguard gathered that the incident occurred at the popular Moremi Hall of residence on the campus. The incident, which shocked the university ...

  • Armed gang kills 48 in Zamfara raid JTF

    KANO(AFP) – An armed gang has raided a northern Nigerian village and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a state official said Wednesday. The attack saw gunmen move house to house as well as take positions atop a hill and open fire, the official said. Houses were also burnt, but it was not clear how many. ';There was an attack by armed ...

  • How EFCC uses mobile phones to get evidence

    By Soni Daniel ABUJA--A forensic analyst with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Muktar Bello, yesterday, explained how the agency was using mobile phones to track oil theft, a booming business in the country. Bello is also a witness in the ongoing trial of Joseph Amaechi and 13 others, in a case of illicit oil bunkering before an Abuja high court. He used the data extracted ...

  • Appeal Court upholds death sentence for bus driver

    By CHRIS OCHAYI ABUJA -- The Appeal Court in Port Harcourt has upheld the ruling of Rivers State High Court which sentenced a bus driver, Emeka Mbachu, to death for killing Clifford Azubuike, a special marshal of Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC. Azubuike was killed while on patrol on November 3, 1995, at the 1st Artillery Junction, along Aba-Port Harcourt highway in Rivers State. The driver, ...

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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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  • VC students trade blames on UNIUYO closure

    By TONY NYONG UYO -- Authorities of University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and students of the institution, have continued to trade blames over lastweek'sstudents protest that leftsome students dead, with scores of others sustaining injuries, whileproperty worth millions of naira were destroyed. Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Comfort Ekpo, has insisted that the school management ...

  • Lekki Port Plugging capacity gap in Nigerian ports revolutionalising the economy

    NKIRUKA NNOROM writes that the Lekki Port, expected to be operational in 2016, will change the face of maritime business in Nigeria and improve economic fortune of the nation Aregulator visitor or even a first time visitor to Apapa Port, the most functional port in Nigeria will attest to the congestion within the Port premises. As a result of this, the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and ...

  • Right abuse Court awards N15m damages against Army

    BY INNOCENT ANABA A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, has awarded N15 million damages to Joseph Agu against the Nigerian Army for torture, inhuman and cruel treatment by a soldier Sgt Francis Oga of 82 Division Enugu, leading to his permanent loss of sight. The incident occurred on January 15, 2009. Agu had sued the Nigerian Army on December 10, 2010, for the enforcement of his fundamental ...

  • Ex-Dep Gov declared wanted over alleged N130m fraud

    BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, in Lagos, has declared a former deputy governor of Lagos State (names withheld) wanted for allegedly jumping bail over a case of obtaining N130 million by false representation. Commissioner of Police in-charge of the unit, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, who made the disclosure, yesterday, explained that the unit received a petition from the ...

  • Amaechi to CP Mbu You’ re a security risk

    By JIMITOTA ONOYUMELU PORT HARCOURT -- GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, yesterday, accused the state Police Commissioner, Mr Joseph Mbu of being a security risk, noting that Mbu was in the habit of exposing decisions reached at the state security council meetings. Speaking when former Petroleum Minister, Professor Tam David-West, led a delegation on solidarity visit to him in ...

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