Provides the latest RSS feeds for Nigeria News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nigeria Sun.com http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/cat/8db1f72cde37faf3/ en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 12:19:42 -0400 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:19:42 -0400 30 At least 25 people were killed and 30 got injured after two suicide bomb attacks Thursday at a military base and a plant run by French nuclear giant Areva in northern Niger, reported Xinhua. A total of 20 Nigerien soldiers and 5 assailants died in twin suicide attacks against a military barracks in Agadez, the main town in northern Niger, and another one at a factory owned by Somair, a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716277/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:20:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716277/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 A Londoner of Nigerian descent was identified Thursday as one of the two suspects who decapitated a British soldier. The terror strike prompted Prime Minister David Cameron to go into a huddle with top officials and the military put in place additional security measures. Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death the British ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713472/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:30:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713472/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old Londoner of Nigerian descent, is one of the two suspects who hacked to death a British soldier in London, a media report said Thursday. The two terror suspects are being held under armed guard at hospitals in London and one of them has been named by Sky News sources as Adebolajo. The vicious attack on the soldier took place Wednesday in Woolwich, southeast ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712153/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:40:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712153/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 India wants increased partnership with Nigeria in education through institutional cooperation, content development, faculty exchange and joint ventures that would enhance the West African country's human resource devlopment, according to Indian High Commissioner Mahesh Sachdev. "Bilateral cooperation in education has had a proud history and remains a priority. A generation of Nigerians have fond ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710157/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:40:01 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710157/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The two men who suspected of murdering a soldier in Woolwich were both British citizens, but their origins were in the troubled West African country of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717044/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:17:33 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717044/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716760/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:19 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716760/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Attackt are the first suicide attacks in Niger since a French-led offensive in January to oust Islamist rebels from neighbouring northern Mali. Image: Google ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716740/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:59:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716740/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Nigeria will release members of the Boko Haram Islamist group held on suspicion of terrorism in phases, starting with women and children, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717045/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:57:15 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717045/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Francois Hollande said. "We will have the same will to co-operate (with Niger) to fight against terrorism and will also protect our interests," he told reporters. "Everybody should know that we will let nothing pass and support Niger's authorities to end the hostage taking and annihilate the group that carried out these attacks." Uranium extraction in Niger represents ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716830/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:47:59 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716830/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Federal Government has gazetted 24 new regulations formulated by the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency, NESREA. The Director-General of the agency, Ngeri Benebo, made this known in an interview in Abuja on Thursday. Mr. Benebo said the agency had fully begun the enforcement of the new regulations by clamping down on environmental offenders and meting ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717049/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717049/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 SA mining companies reel in shock over workers' pay demands. The rand hits a four-year low. but FW de Clerk is upbeat. Nigeria pays tribute to Chinua Achebe. Hundreds of Kenyan politicians and civil servants may face prosecution. And Ugandan papers under siege by the police. A mixed front page to this morning's South African financial paper, BusinessDay. The main headline reads ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717048/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717048/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Dignitaries from across the world are gathering in Ogidi, in Nigeria's Anambra state, to witness the interment of renowned author Chinua Achebe on Thursday. Yet after they have paid their last respects, said their final farewells and departed, a vital aspect of Mr Achebe's burial will still be pending. According to Igbo tradition, death is not an end to life. It is simply a transition ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717050/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717050/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The President as the Commander in Chief gets his briefing and is privy to information that the rest of us actually will not have. So, I don't think it will be proper for anybody to second guess how he takes his decision based on advice he gets from security chiefs. Giving the level of information available to him, he took the decision at the time he felt that the situation called for it and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717054/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717054/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 In his 2000 page book titled "Ile-Ife-The Source of Yoruba Civilisation", Prince Adelegan Adegbola wrote the following about the Yoruba people of south-western Nigeria- "the Yoruba are the progeny of great kingship, efficient kingdom-builders and astute rulers. They have been enjoying for centuries a well-organized pattern of society, a pattern which persists, in spite of all the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717052/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717052/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Ogun State is regarded as a leading municipal in the country. This is in recognition of its pioneering role in education, medicine, law, divinity among others. On the other hand, it is famous for its strategic location as an integral transport route that connects with the rest of the country. It borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo and Osun states to the north, Ondo State to the east and the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717051/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717051/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Well, let me start by saying, long before I joined partisan politics, I had been in academics. I had been a teacher in the university, and as you know, I rose to the rank of professor about twelve years ago. So as an academic, there is no dull moment for me. And I suppose that is the case with all true academics. Surely as you know, the period between 2008 and 2011 was one of the most historic ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717053/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717053/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Spanish international and former Real Madrid defender, Michael Solgado, has described the Glo Soccer Academy boys currently on training tour of Football Academy of Dubai Sports City as "a bunch of talented young footballers. Solgado, a top executive of the academy stated that with proper training and commitment, the players will go far in the game of football. "Having seen them in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717055/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717055/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 It may interest you to know that 62 parties went to 21 million people in Lagos State to canvass for their mandate and by the confidence in our ability to perform, they gave us their mandate. To us, the definition is for us to direct the affairs and restructure this community; at least for the period that we have the mandate and it is pertinent to bear in our minds that we are not a government of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717056/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:42:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717056/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Security officials in Niger are on the lookout for assailants tied to the bombing Thursday of a military camp, Niger Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said. Karidjo said a car bomb was detonated at a military base in Agadez in central Niger, near the site of a French mining operation. Authorities in Niger told the BBC that several attackers died in the attack, though a fifth insurgent was ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717057/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:40:15 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717057/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Reports say the suspects in yesterday's butchering of a British soldier have Nigerian ancestry. However, they appeared to be driven by UK involvement in other Muslim ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716887/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:37:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716887/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 LONDON: British authorities believe that two men accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries are British of Nigerian descent, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Local media named one of the two suspects as British-born, 28-year-old ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716800/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:36:05 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214716800/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Niger's government said at least 19 soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle that followed twin bombings at a military base and a French-owned uranium mine. Security officials said the car bomb attack occurred outside a military barracks in the town of Agadez, located about 800 kilometers northwest of the capital, Niamey. A government spokesman said several attackers emerged from ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715234/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:07:39 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715234/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (AFP) - Islamist militants staged brazen twin car bomb attacks on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and taking several trainee army officers hostage in the impoverished west African nation, the government said.The unprecedented attacks were claimed by an Islamist group as revenge for Niger's involvement in a French-led military ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715515/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:05:50 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715515/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 23 May 2013 Twenty soldiers have been killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715516/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:57:09 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715516/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (Reuters) - Islamist suicide bombers struck a barracks and a French-run uranium mine in Niger on Thursday, officials said, killing 20 people and wounding dozens in attacks that showed armed unrest spreading across West Africa. In Agadez, the largest town in northern Niger, at least 20 soldiers were killed and 16 injured when suicide bombers attacked a barracks at dawn, Defence Minister ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715517/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:49:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715517/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 joint venture with a capacity of more than 550,000 barrels per day of crude oil, condensate and gas liquids. "From the years 2013 to 2015, we will continue to use the external financing option, but by the year 2016 we would switch to the bond market as an alternative source of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715519/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:44:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715519/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger's interior minister says that a suicide attacker, who penetrated a military garrison in the city of Agadez, has taken several cadets ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715236/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:41:19 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715236/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 PARIS | Thu May 23, 2013 9:40am EDT PARIS May 23 (Reuters) - Areva said one person was killed in an attack at its Somair mine near Arlit in northern Niger earlier on Thursday. The French nuclear reactor maker said 14 other people had been injured and transferred to the local ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717046/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:40:31 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214717046/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Police clashed with protesters, including supporters of the far-right English Defence League, following the brutal hacking death of a man in London on Wednesday. (May ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715363/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:32:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715363/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (AFP) - Twin car bombings at an army base and a French-run uranium mine in northern Niger killed at least 19 people Thursday, in unprecedented attacks claimed by an Islamist group fighting French-led troops in neighbouring Mali."We have 19 dead in Agadez, 18 soldiers and a civilian," Interior Minister Abdou Labo said at a press conference, adding that four suicide bombers were ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715522/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:31:22 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715522/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Chinua Achebe Eulogies and tributes have continued to trail the death and burial of literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe. Eminent personalities, heads of governments, his literary community, the academia, socio-cultural groups, to mention a few, have had glowing things to say about this popular author at different fora and in the media. Vanguard beliefs that majority of the people who have read ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715524/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:46 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715524/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 D'banj The annual music tour, Star trek which shuttles artists at the top of the chain to several cities in the country has announced the 22 acts that will be performing on this year’s tour! 2face Idibia, D’banj and Psquare lead the pack of super acts which includes Ice Prince, M.I; rappers Mr Raw, Naeto C, Phyno and Olamide. Others are Timaya, Sound Sultan, Wande Coal, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715523/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:46 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715523/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Sokoto - The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, says he will establish four sugar factories in Sokoto and Kebbi States at the cost of between N180 billion and N200 billion. Dangote made the statement in Sokoto on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit to Gov. Aliyu Wamakko. According to Dangote, each of the two states will have two of the factories which will also provide ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715525/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:46 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715525/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 , the annual music concert that is headlined by superstars from a wide range of different music genres, is coming back this year with an even more exclusive line-up of music artistes. However, in a publicity move designed to tease their fans and increase the anticipation, the organisers said they are keeping the list of the big stars performing at this year’s edition of the concert close ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715530/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715530/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Federal Government said on Thursday in Geneva that a budgetary allocation had been made to subsidise the cost of some medical checkups for Nigerians. The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, said at the ongoing 66th session of the General Assembly of the World Health Organisation, that regular checkups would enable Nigeria to help address the issue of non-communicable diseases. He ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715526/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715526/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Maradun Local Government Council in Zamfara has earmarked N16 million for the drilling of bore holes in areas worst affected by water shortage. The council Chairman, Alhaji Yahya Shehu, said while briefing newsmen in Maradun on Thursday that, the money would also cover the repairs of broken down bore holes in other parts of the local government. He said the project, which would be completed in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715529/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715529/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Osun Government on Wednesday closed down two private schools; Toluwalase Nursery and Primary School and Motiloola Nursery and Primary School in Ile-Ife, Ife East Local Government, for allegedly using dilapidated buildings. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the affected schools allegedly operated without government approval. The State Internally Generated Revenue Monitoring Team ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715527/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715527/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Niamey - Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabery Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees. Among the sick are 31 Malian refugees who are living in Tabareybarey and Mangaize camps near the Mali border, according to the Tillabery health services and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). In the camps and in surrounding villages, UNHCR has upped the supply of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715531/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 09:29:44 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214715531/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 A file photo shows workers at the uranium mine of Arlit, northern Niger. Paris-based nuclear giant Areva said in a statement that 13 employees were hurt in the attack in Arlit. Photo: ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714121/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:29:50 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714121/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY, Niger (AP) -- Niger's defense minister announced that 20 Nigerien soldiers were killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with explosives inside a military installation in the city of Agadez on ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713868/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:29:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713868/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Uduma Kalu President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Ogidi, the hometown of the late Prof Chinua Achebe for the final burial rites of the literary icon. Also attending the burial service at St. Philips Anglican Church, Ogidi, Anambra state are President John Mahama of Ghana, delegations of the Bishop of Canterbury and the United States; eminent statesmen, Chief Alex Ekwueme and Chief Emeka ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714122/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:24:41 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714122/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 TheMTV All Stars concert held on May 18, in Durban, South Africa with heart thumping performances from US rapper Snoop Lion, 2face, D'banj, Flavour, Camp Mulla and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714123/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:24:41 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714123/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (Reuters) - At least 18 soldiers and four suspected Islamists were killed in a fierce gunbattle following a dawn car bomb attack at a barracks in the northern Niger town of Agadez, military sources and a local official ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713844/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:24:14 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713844/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The funeral of Nigeria's celebrated writer, Chinua Achebe, is due to take place in his small hometown in a ceremony expected to draw crowds of mourners. Achebe, author of the widely praised ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713507/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:19:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713507/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Project Management Office (PMO), Accenture Consulting that is handling the ongoing selection process of software developers has said that 10 teams will emerge at the end of the exercise. The 10 teams would be handed over to the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, who would in turn present them at the Lagos Incubation Centre for one-year training. The minister had ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714127/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714127/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 As reactions pour in on the federal government's detainee release programme for select members of the Boko Haram sect, as well as women and children associated with the Islamist terrorist group, the presidency yesterday threw more light on the plan, stating that the first phase of the plan would cover women and children only. The clarification was made by the Senior Special Assistant to the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714129/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714129/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab Kuchi, has disclosed that power generation will increase from its current 4,500 to 6,000MW in July and rise further to 10,000MW by December. This came as the Senate Wednesday vehemently opposed the move by the federal government to liquidate Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and its mobile subsidiary Mtel, saying it is counter-productive. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714126/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714126/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Newly-appointed Director General of the National Sports Commission (NSC), Hon. Gbenga Elegbeleye, has assured that efforts would be made to know what went wrong at the last London 2012 Olympics. Elegbeleye gave the assurance when he officially took over the mantle of leadership at the commission's headquarters in Abuja. The director, who said his appointment was to transform Nigerian ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714130/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714130/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has reiterated that the on-going transformation of the payment system will bring about rapid financial inclusion and increased economic activities. Sanusi also said the central bank remained committed to realising the vision of providing Nigeria with a secure, robust and accessible payment system. The CBN governor, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714128/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714128/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 United Nations independent experts have called on Nigeria and other member-countries to ensure the post-2015 development agenda focuses on equality, social protection and accountability. They noted that one billion people around the world were still living in poverty. In their message to member states, which will meet this week in New York to discuss how to shape a new set of global development ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714131/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714131/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 An indigenous company Morpheus Online Business Services, has launched an exciting e-commerce platform in Lagos. The platform buyam.com.ng is set to alleviate the stress shoppers' encounter while trying to meet their needs. It is a unique 'storefront' concept that allows merchants to create an online destination for their brands within the portal. In a release, the company's ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714135/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714135/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Following the success of the first edition held last year at the Civic Centre in Lagos, Simon Page Business School is hosting the second edition of the Digital Marketing Conference and Exhibition. Billed for May today and tomorrow, this year edition according to the organisers, "promises to be even more exhilarating and exciting with key internet marketing experts from around the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714134/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714134/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Greater Tomorrow Academicals of Akwa Ibom and Rangers of Enugu Feeder Team are favoured to cart away the maiden Chief E. K. Clark International U-18 Tournament going on in Uyo Akwa Ibom State. After the preliminaries which saw the participation of eight teams, Rangers and Greater Tomorrow notched the maximum nine points from three matches to emerge the favourites from the two groups. In the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714133/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714133/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 who attended 'A Day of Tributes' organised by Aka Ikenga in Lagos to honour the late Professor Chinua Achebe, reports that dignitaries at the event paid glowing tributes to the late literary ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714125/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714125/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Some members of staff of Ecobank Plc that were laid off by the bank have threaten the take it to court if their severance fee is not paid within two weeks. The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) and the recently laid off staff of the bank who made the threat, said the bank might also be picketed if it remains adamant to the demand of the sacked ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714132/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214714132/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Akono was brought in to replace Denis Lavagne when the Frenchman failed to take Cameroon to the African Cup of Nations finals in both 2012 and 2013, with Finke now set to manage his first international ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713890/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:17:47 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713890/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria  — A fresh load of battered corpses arrived, 29 of them in a routine delivery by the Nigerian military to the hospital morgue here. Unexpectedly, three bodies started moving. "They were not properly shot," recalled a security official here. "I had to call the J.T.F." -- the military's joint task force -- "and they gunned them ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713891/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:15:42 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214713891/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has suspended its medical aid in northern Nigeria's Borno state, after gunmen there hijacked one of its ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712475/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712475/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 At least one of the two London Woolwhich terror suspects being held under armed guard at hospitals in London is believed to be of a Nigerian background si doubt Boko Haram ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712806/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:37:31 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712806/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Abdoulaye Massalatchi, Reuters NIAMEY, Niger - Suicide bombers struck a mine run by French nuclear group Areva and a military barracks in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that underline the widening threat posed by Islamist militants across West Africa.Military sources said several soldiers were killed in a gun battle with Islamists following a car ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712536/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:37:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712536/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Africa kidnapped five French citizens working for the mining company. Residents in the two towns said that both attacks occurred at around 5:30 am, indicating a level of co-ordination among the attackers.Alhousseiny Moussa, a resident of Agadez, was already awake and just steps away from his local mosque for the first prayer of the day, when he heard the boom coming from the city's military ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712517/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:34:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712517/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as the military continued its assault on Islamist armed group Boko Haram.Several people have reportedly been killed and hundreds arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712543/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:28:04 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712543/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Nigeria Professional Football League clubs Sharks and Dolphins have been disqualified from the 2013 Federation Cup, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed this week. A statement from the NFF revealed the two clubs have been booted out of the tournament following the Rivers State Football Association's failure to adhere to the rules and regulations pertaining to the preliminary matches. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712807/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:21:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712807/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 London - One of the attackers who hacked a soldier to death in London was British-born and of Nigerian descent, a source with knowledge of the investigation ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712808/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:19:09 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712808/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Niger detonated two car bombs on Thursday, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit, where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen people.Paris-based nuclear giant Areva said in a statement that 13 employees were hurt in the attack in Arlit, in the northern part of Niger where in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712533/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:13:40 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712533/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 LONDON (AFP) – The savage murder of a man believed to be a soldier on a London street in a suspected terror attack was ';beyond belief'; but will only strengthen Britain’s support for its armed forces, newspapers said Thursday. Two suspected Islamists were arrested following the attack, which happened in broad daylight, but not before they had launched a filmed tirade ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712809/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:13:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712809/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Charles Mgbolu The annual music tour, Star trek which shuttles artists at the top of the chain to several cities in the country has announced the 22 acts that will be performing on this year's tour! 2face Idibia, D'banj and Psquare lead the pack of super acts which includes Ice Prince, M.I; rappers Mr Raw, Naeto C, Phyno and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712810/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:13:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712810/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed in twin bombings on Thursday at a uranium processing plant owned by French nuclear giant Areva and a military base in northern Niger, a Western source.France confirmed that there were deaths among the victims of the attacks."It is still too early for a definitive toll from these attacks," the French foreign ministry spokesman Philippe ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712811/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:08:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712811/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Senate President, David Mark, on Wednesday challenged Nigeria's northern governors to urgently ban the almajiri system that has seen millions of children, abandoned by their parents, roam the streets in their states. Mr. Mark blamed the governors for encouraging the almajiri system, saying the system is "counter-productive" and had continued to undermine the development of the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712812/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712812/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Coach Stephen Keshi has told Nigerians not to panic as the Super Eagles prepare for crucial 2014 World Cup qualifying games and the FIFA Confederations Cup tournament - all taking place in a number of weeks. A spate of injuries, first to Scotland-based midfielder Reuben Gabriel and ace forward Emmanuel Emenike, and lately to attacking midfielders Kalu Uche and Victor Moses, had caused anxiety in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712813/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712813/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Following perceived violations of human rights by the military, the Northern Elders Forum, (NEF), is considering taking the Federal Government to the International Court of Justice at The Hague. NEF is alleginggross human rights violations, including extra judicial killings, inhuman treatment and incarceration of thousands of innocent Nigerians. The Spokesman of the forum and former Vice ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712814/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:54 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712814/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Port Harcourt - CAMPAIGN posters and flyers projecting President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election flooded Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, yesterday. The posters, indicating a group, Voter 2 Voter, with a bold picture of the President, read "Our Dependable Choice 2015." The appearance of the campaign posters trailed escalated protests by youths in Rivers ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712817/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:53 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712817/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Abuja - THE federal government, yesterday, disclosed that plans had been concluded to move from the present position of power generation of 4,500 to 10,000 megawatts by December. Speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, led by Senator Phillip Adudua, PDP, FCT, Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab Kuchi, told the senators that the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712815/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:53 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712815/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Police, yesterday, said its officers and men in the Rivers State Command might have committed errors in the discharge of their constitutional duties in the recent events unfolding in the state. The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 6, Calabar, Cross River State, Mr. Jonathan Johnson, when he led a delegation of senior police officers in the zone on a courtesy ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712816/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:53 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712816/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Minna - The All Nigeria Peoples' Party, ANPP, in Niger State has now broken into two factions with one headed by a former member of the state House of Assembly, Afiniki Dauda, while the other is led by a one-time Commissioner for Health in the state, Hajiya Jummai Mohammed. Addressing newsmen at the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, Pen House in Minna, the state capital, yesterday, Hajiya ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712818/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712818/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Governors of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe are now to take orders from President Jonathan on the administration of their respective states following the proclamation of emergency rule, according to official gazettes published by the Federal Government. Copies of the two gazettes, exclusively obtained by Daily Trust, show that whereas the three affected governors are allowed to remain in office for the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712555/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712555/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Abuja - Still trying to fish out the masterminds of the massacre of dozens of policemen and security agents in Alakyo in Nasarawa State about two weeks ago, security operatives have arrested a senior director working with the state government in connection with the killings. The officer was alleged to have passed strategic security information to the cultists thereby enabling them to strike with ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712551/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712551/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Those working to combat food insecurity in the Sahel need to "get their thinking together" and realise that it could take several years for the poorest families to recover from three successive regional droughts and hunger crises, says the new regional co-ordinator of the World Food Programme (WFP). Denise Brown, who took up the post in early April after two years as WFP head of office ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712819/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712819/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Ibadan - FEW hours after the Oyo State Police Command arrested a man with 3,500 live cartridges, the Oyo/Osun Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service also impounded a vehicle loaded with 56,750 rounds of ammunition at Saki in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State. The Customs Area Controller, Mr Richard Oteri, said the vehicle conveying the ammunition was arrested along the Igboho road in Saki. Disclosing ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712550/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712550/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Owerri - This is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell in Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community, Mbaitoli local council area of the State late Thursday night of May 16, killing no fewer than 50 people, with a yet to be ascertained number critically injured. The tall ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712552/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:51 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712552/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Awka - AWKA, the capital of Anambra State stood still, Wednesday as the body of the literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe arrived the state for its final journey to Ogidi, his home town, in Idemili North local government area where it will be interred tomorrow. What happened at the Alexander Ekwueme Arcade, Awka, was simply mind blowing. The remains of the famous writer of Things Fall Apart, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712553/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:06:51 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712553/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Two bomb attacks on a French-owned uranium mine and a military base in Niger wounded more than a dozen people Thursday, officials said. Uranium mining group Areva said 13 employees at its Arlit, Niger, mine were injured in a suicide attack. At approximately the same time, a car bomb exploded near military barracks in Agadez, about 155 miles to the south, The Wall Street Journal reported. No ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712820/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 07:04:04 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214712820/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Officials in Niger say a military base and a French-owned uranium mine were hit by separate bomb attacks early Thursday, wounding an unknown number of people. Paris-based Areva says 13 of its employees were wounded in the attack in Arlit, a mainly industrial town in the north-central part of the country. Witnesses say the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who blew up his vehicle ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711385/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:34:41 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711385/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 A uranium processing plant owned by French nuclear giant Areva and a military base in northern Niger have been hit by twin car bombings.The attack on Thursday wounded multiple people."There was an explosion in front of the military base at Agadez," Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo told AFP, calling it a car bomb attack."The attackers have been neutralised," he said, adding: ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711591/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:29:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711591/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Yaounde – Cameroon have appointed Volker Finke as head coach of the national team, the German tasked with ensuring the Indomitable Lions qualify for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711390/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:08:58 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711390/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Accra - A military operation by the Nigerian government would not be enough to put an end to the Boko Haram Islamist guerrilla group, analysts ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711592/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:08:57 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711592/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (Reuters) - Suicide bombers struck a military barracks and a mine run by French nuclear group Areva in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that showed the fight against Islamist militants was spreading across West ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711376/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:07:14 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711376/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Kano – Kano Pillars FC on Wednesday beat Kaduna United 3-2 in Week 14 of the Nigeria Premier League football competition, played at the Sani Abacha Stadium, Kano. Rabiu Ali opened scoring for the home side in the first minute of the game before Tijani Adamu equalised for Kaduna United in the 13th minute, to end the first half at 1-1. Kaduna winger Yau Abubakar scored the second goal in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711597/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:03:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711597/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Chinua Achebe Eulogies and tributes have continued to trail the death and burial of literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe. Eminent personalities, heads of governments, his literary community, the academia, socio-cultural groups, to mention a few, have had glowing things to say about this popular author at different fora and in the media. Vanguard beliefs that majority of the people who have read ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711596/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 06:03:55 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711596/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The federal government Wednesday said it was committed to restructuring the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) to reposition it as a tool for national transformation and encouragement of self-reliance among corps members. The Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Inuwa Abdulkadir, gave this assurance when he inaugurated the NYSC National Governing Board in Abuja where he added that the government ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711602/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711602/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) wednesday called off its plans to attack mosques and assassinate Islamic clerics to avenge the attack on Christians and churches by Boko Haram militants. The group, in a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Gbomo Jomo, said despite several provocative statements credited to some Muslim leaders, it had decided to call off the planned ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711601/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711601/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday applauded the National Assembly for the unanimous approval of the declaration of state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, despite pressure by some leaders of the opposition to the contrary. The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said in a statement that in endorsing the declaration, members of the National ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711600/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711600/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Lagos State Government Wednesday appealed to the federal government to settle the sum of N13.4 billion pension benefits of its members of staff and those working in the local government areas in the state. The state government also put the total retirement benefits it had settled through the State Pension Commission (LASPEC) at N18 billion, despite expressing its commitment to Pension Fund ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711605/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711605/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Oyo-Osun Command of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) Wednesday impounded 227 cartons of 56, 750 rounds of ammunition concealed in bags packed with dried cassava tubers. The Area Comptroller of the command, Richard Oteri, who spoke with journalists on the feat was however not happy that the suspects fled before his men could catch up with them. According to him, the vehicle conveying the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711604/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711604/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Ondo State, Wednesday condemned in strong terms, the purported constitution of the steering committee for the merger of the party with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state reportedly constituted by Senator Ajayi Boroffice. Specifically, the party in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary in the state, Mr. Rotimi Agbede, after a meeting of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711603/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711603/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 "The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."-- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart Early last month, a close friend of mine of more than two ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711607/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711607/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly murdered his banker wife, Titilayo, Wednesday told an Ikeja High Court that he loved his late wife so much and could not have killed her. Arowolo said this while giving testimony in his defence as the sixth defence witness in the case instituted against him by the Lagos State Government before Justice Lateefa Okunnu. He told the court that he did all he could to ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711606/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711606/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 As governors of the 36 states of the federation gear up to elect a new chairman of the Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF), tomorrow, there are strong indications that governors of the North are set to queue behind the candidature of the preferred choice of the presidency-Katsina State Governor Governor Ibrahim Shema or in the alternative, a compromise candidate, Bauchi State G Governor Isa ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711612/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711612/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 In what seems to contradict his claims that democratic structures would not be tampered with in three states where emergency rule has been imposed, Governors Ibrahim Shettima (Borno), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobo) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) are now to receive orders directly from President Goodluck Jonathan. According to the state of emergency proclamation order declared by Jonathan last week, under ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711610/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711610/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 President Goodluck Jonathan has appointed Justice Ibrahim Bukar as the acting Chief Judge of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The appointment followed the voluntary retirement from service of the former occupant of the post, Justice Lawal Hassan Gumi. But notwithstanding his retirement, Gumi is being probed by the National Judicial Commission (NJC) for alleged ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711608/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711608/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 All is now set for the 2013 Minna National Polo Tournament organised on behalf of the Nigerian Polo Federation, scheduled to take place from June 4-8, 2013. The event is an annual social and recreational activity, which has over the years attracted a large turnout of players, spectators and eminent personalities both locally and internationally who have been long-standing friends of Niger State ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711611/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711611/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Emeka Ihedioha on Wednesday assured Nigeria-born international middle-weight World Boxing Champion, King Davidson Emenogu of the support of the National Assembly in his bid to defend the title in Abuja in July this year. The Deputy Speaker gave the assurance when the world champion paid him a courtesy visit and present to him laurels he ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711609/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711609/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The vice chancellor of the Kaduna State University, Prof William Barnabas Qurix, says entrepreneurs can help transform the Nigerian economy. He said this during the launch of Network for African Student Entrepreneur,NASE, and the flag-off of UNEDEP with the theme, 'Innovation System for Entrepreneurship Development In Nigerian Universities'. The VC who opined that there is no such ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711613/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711613/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The chief of army staff (COAS), Lt-General Azubuike Ihejirika, yesterday in Abuja opened up on the unpatriotic attitude of some soldiers and warned officers and soldiers who leak vital information to the Boko Haram insurgents on operations to desist from it or face the full wrath of the law. He read the riot act at the opening ceremony of a three-day Army Transformation Seminar with the theme ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711614/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711614/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 British Prime Minister, David Cameron, on Wednesday described the attack on a man near a military barracks in Woolwich, South East London which resulted in his death, as a terrorist incident. Mr. Cameron, who cut short his trip to Paris, said the attack was "absolutely sickening, a most appalling crime; we have had these sorts of attacks before in our country, and we will never buckle in ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711396/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711396/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Policies aimed at re-directing the nation's investment, trade, industry and enterprise potential may have started yielding results. If the trend continues, the Nigerian economy's dependence on crude oil alone will be halted. Oil had, unexpectedly, skewed the country's balance of trade in favour of its trading partners. The United Nations Commission on Trade and Development's ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711249/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711249/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang and the German Chancellor's Personal Representative for Africa, in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Gunter Nooke yesterday, May 21, 2013 in Yaounde discussed the project to establish a factory to process natural gas into fertilizer in Cameroon. This was one of the main topics discussed at the Star Building ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711235/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:57:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711235/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY | Thu May 23, 2013 5:25am EDT NIAMEY May 23 (Reuters) - Several soldiers were killed in a gunbattle with suspected Islamist militants after a suicide bomb attack on a barracks in the northern Niger town of Agadez, military sources said. "The situation is now under control. The suicide bomber was not alone. There were other terrorists who followed in cars and there were ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711594/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:25:03 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711594/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY, Niger -; Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs, one in the city of Agadez where a military barracks was targeted and one in Arlit where a French company operates a uranium mine, injuring more than a dozen ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710430/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:21:52 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710430/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 YAOUNDE ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711386/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:11:56 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214711386/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 At least one of the two terror suspects being held under armed guard at hospitals in London is believed to be of a Nigerian background. The men, who are thought to have both been born in Britain, were arrested following the hacking to death of a serving soldier in the street in Woolwich, southeast London. Sky's foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said: "At least one of them, we think, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710663/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:08:45 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710663/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Attackt are the first suicide attacks in Niger since a French-led offensive in January to oust Islamist rebels from neighbouring northern Mali. Image: Google ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710443/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 05:05:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710443/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BERLIN (AFP) – Borussia Dortmund’s biggest weapon in Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich is Robert Lewandowski, who will be hoping to gun down the Bavarians at Wembley before sealing a transfer to the Allianz Arena in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710668/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:55:37 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710668/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 NIAMEY (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers struck on Thursday at a military barracks and a plant run by French nuclear group Areva in northern Niger, military and company sources ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710439/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:55:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710439/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Woolwich killers are of Nigerian background, sources have confirmed, but it is understood they are most likely to be British citizens converted to a radical form of Islam.The men, who are being treated in separate hospitals while under arrest, are not thought to have links to terror groups based in Nigeria, such as the jihadist militant organisation Boko Haram.The British Foreign Office warns ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710339/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:53:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710339/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Almost three months after the dastardly murder of the former Kwara State Police Commissioner Chinwike Asadu in Enugu, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Wednesday declared that seven persons suspected to have been involved in the murder have been arrested, while efforts were being made to track down others still on the run. The late Asadu, who was until his death the CP of Kwara ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710670/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:49:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710670/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Wednesday called on the federal government to allow human rights and observer groups full access to all areas where the current military campaigns against the Boko Haram Islamic group in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States are going on in order to guide against human rights abuses. The forum however applauded the decision of the government to release detained on the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710669/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:49:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710669/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The police have banned further protests in Rivers State which has been enmeshed in a crisis following the power struggle in the state chapter of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The police, which have been accused of partisanship in the crisis rocking the state leading to the repeated demands by the state House of Assembly for the removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Mbu Joseph ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710671/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:49:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710671/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Lagos - International Oil Companies (IOCs) have expressed readiness to invest $165 billion (about N25.9 trillion) in Nigeria in the next five years. The companies said such investment will go into new oil and gas development and infrastructure that will boost production and develop industry competences. Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Chika Onyejekwe, who ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710270/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:49:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710270/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Over 500 members of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NEPWHAN) yesterday stormed the National Assembly to protest the non passage of the HIV/AIDS anti discrimination bill into law. President of NEPWHAN Edward Ogenyi who was received at the gate by Senator Wilson Ake on behalf of the Senate president said stigmatization has made living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria quite challenging and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710459/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 04:49:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214710459/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 LONDON (AFP) – The all-German Champions League final between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich on Saturday marks the culmination of an intensifying and increasingly bitter ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709524/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:45:02 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709524/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The new Commissioner of Police in Kwara State, Mr. Agboola Oshodi-Glover, has said he would ensure that no criminal suspects escape the full wrath of the law. Oshodi-Glover disclosed this in Ilorin yesterday while paying his maiden visit to the members of the Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists to solicit for their support in the task of curbing crimes in the state. ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709528/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709528/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The leadership of the faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) loyal to the Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, Wednesday accused the National Chairman of the party, Chief Victor Umeh, of engaging in double-dealing on the issue of the party's involvement in the on-going opposition coalition 's merger plan. The charge against Umeh came just as the Vice-Chairman, Media ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709527/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709527/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The 19 northern state governors may hold the aces in deciding who wins tomorrow's election to emerge the chairman of the Nigerian Governors' Forum (NGF) as the two camps in the forum have been lobbying them to their sides. The race for the NGF chairmanship has split the governors with some supporting the re-election bid of the incumbent and Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709530/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709530/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has made a shocking revelation that some military officers are in the habit of sabotaging security operations by leaking information to Boko Haram insurgents, similar to the one that led to the attack on an army convoy carrying troops deployed to Mali in Okene, Kogi State last year. Ihejirika disclosed this Wednesday at the Nigerian ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709529/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709529/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly has summoned the Vice-Chancellor of the Akwa Ibom State University of Technology (AKUTECH), Prof. Sunday Peters, and the Chairman of the Governing Council of the institution, Prof. Okon Eminue, over protests and petitions bordering on the management and activities of the school. Rising from its sitting on Tuesday, the Speaker of the Assembly, Mr. Sam Ikon, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709526/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709526/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 For students seeking admission into universities, all hope is not lost yet, as representatives of Indian universities have disclosed that Indian government has an education policy to admit 15 per cent African students yearly into their various universities which have 17 million capacity adding that examination is not compulsory. Last weekend, no fewer than 12 Indian universities and institutions ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709525/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 03:38:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214709525/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Nigeria had opened a tender to sell its oil through multibillion-dollar annual contracts starting in August, Africa’s top oil producer said in an official notice yesterday. State-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) invited refiners, trading houses and local Nigerian oil companies to submit bids by June 18. The NNPC did not specify the volume of oil to be awarded in the 2013 ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708313/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:54:34 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708313/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708314/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:06 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708314/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Dikko Abubakar Wednesday declared Enugu State as having the lowest crime rate in the country, saying that this fact was buttressed by statistics and empirical evidence. Abubakar who spoke Wednesday while taking delivery of 100 brand new vehicles donated to the police by the Enugu State Government, stated that this was largely a result of the tremendous ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708474/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708474/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Osogbo - An Osun State High Court yesterday discontinued a case instituted by some students against the State Government and lecturers of the state owned tertiary institutions. The students took their lecturers and Osun State government to court as a result of the industrial action embarked upon by lecturers which lasted for almost three months. Counsel to the students; Daud Akinloye, prayed ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708479/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708479/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hopes to register up to five million farmers with subsidized fertilizer and seeds through the Growth Enhancement Support scheme (GES), minister of agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, has said. The minister, who said this while flagging off the program for the South West, in Otiri farm settlement, Iseyin, Oyo state, said 4.5 million farmers ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708478/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708478/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Lafia - The Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Chris Cooter, yesterday, expressed hope that the perpetrators of the May 7 murder of policemen and other security operatives at the outskirts of Lafia, Nasarawa State, will be brought to book. He said this during a visit to Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura in Lafia, on his one-day official visit to the state. Dozens of policemen at Alakyo, an ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708477/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708477/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The federal government has approved the revision of the more than a decade old aviation policy, which has now been replaced by the new national aviation policy. This was one of the outcomes of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan. The meeting, according to the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, flanked by his counterparts in the ministries of aviation, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708476/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708476/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 President Goodluck Jonathan will next week Wednesday, May 29th, submit a major report of his administration in all key sectors and all major programmes in the last two years and high light on-going projects. The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, disclosed this at the end of the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Jonathan. He said the President would be live on ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708475/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:28:07 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214708475/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY EVELYN USMAN LAGOS -- Operatives at the Ogun State Criminal Investigation Department, Elewe-Eran, have arrested a 25- year-old man who allegedly raped and stabbed his girlfriend to death in her parents’ apartment in Ogijo area close to Ikorodu. The suspect, Anuoluwapo Akinloye, a bricklayer, who admitted to have committed the act, told Vanguard that he did it out of jealousy and fear ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214707550/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 01:27:49 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214707550/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 THE death of Africa's foremost writer, critic and cultural pathologist, Chinualumogu Albert Achebe is a great loss to a world where the wisdom of sacred spoken and written words is observed with high ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214706513/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:17:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214706513/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 View Photo AFP/AFP/File - Cultural troupe from Ogidi community, Professor Chinua Achebe's native town, dance in honour of the late literary giant at Abuja airport, on May 21, 2013. The body of Achebe, the author of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214705423/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:16:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214705423/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By HENRY UMORU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ABUJA--SENATE President, David Mark, yesterday, blamed leaders and politicians from the North for the growing almajiri in the region, saying they must urgently rise up to ban the system. This is even as he said the Federal Government would no longer condone criminal acts by people in the country on excuse of unemployment. Mark, who spoke during a debate on a ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214705424/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 23:07:11 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214705424/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA--The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma Muhktar, yesterday, expressed her determination to flush out corrupt judges from the judiciary, saying judges must be men of probity and impeccable character. However, the CJN, who stated this while administering oath on 12 newly appointed justices of the National Industrial Court, NIC, said her decision to boot out ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214704505/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:56:40 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214704505/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By HENRY UMORU ABUJA -- THE Presidency, yesterday, disclosed that the order directing the release from Police, DSS and military detention centres of Boko Haram suspects detained in connection with the security challenge, would be carried out in phases. According to the Presidency, the first batch would lay emphasis on women and children who have been in detention on suspicion of involvement ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214704504/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:56:40 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214704504/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 ';Tax collectors and sinners" appear multiple times in the Synoptic gospels. Underlying the construction of that phrase is an attitude that suggests that the iniquities of a tax collector do not make him easily "subsume-able" under the umbrella label of "sinners." In Bible times, a Jewish tax collector is no ordinary sinner; his moral transgressions are interwoven ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703372/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703372/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 The World Bank has said it will help Nigeria to generate additional 2,000 megawatts of electricity in the next two years through support to independent power ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702981/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:31 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702981/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 About 20 private jets registered abroad but flying in Nigeria may have left the country barely one month after the Federal Government unveiled a new policy barring foreign-owned aircraft from staying in the country beyond 15 days, aviation industry sources have ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703180/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 21:13:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703180/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY WILLIAM JIMOH LAGOS-- FOR second day running, operations of five oil firms in Kirikiri town, Oriade Local Council Development Council Area, LCDA, of Lagos State, were paralysed by residents protesting the deplorable state of roads in the community and lack of employment opportunities for its youths. The community accused the oil firms of not only refusing to offer jobs to the youths but also ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703373/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:38 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703373/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Henry Umoru & Joseph Erunke ABUJA--THE federal government, yesterday, disclosed that plans had been concluded to move from the present position of power generation of 4,500 to 10,000 megawatts by December. Speaking when she appeared before the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, led by Senator Phillip Adudua, PDP, FCT, Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703374/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:37 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703374/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By SONI DANIEL, REGIONAL EDITOR, ABUJA Still trying to fish out the masterminds of the massacre of dozens of policemen and security agents in Alakyo in Nasarawa State about two weeks ago, security operatives have arrested a senior director working with the state government in connection with the killings. The officer was alleged to have passed strategic security information to the cultists ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703376/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703376/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Evelyn Usman LAGOS--Robbers, who posed as stranded visitors, Monday, snatched a Toyota Hilux pick-up van belonging to Iba Local Council Development Area, LCDA, Ojo Lagos. The four-man armed gang as gathered, stormed a building located in Shogunle area of Lagos at 7a.m. and reportedly accosted occupant of the vehicle, a woman later identified as Dr. Nkiruka Ubani. While two of them ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703375/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:36 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703375/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo Lagos State Government,yesterday, said it recorded a monthly revenue increase of N29.0 billion in 2012 as against an average of N18.9 billion in 2008, even as it appealed to the Federal Government to urgently pay N13, 373, 919, 675.55 being verified indebtedness it owed pensioners in the state. Commissioner for Pensions, Establishments and Training, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703377/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:35 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703377/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Is’haq Modibbo Kawu LAST week, the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development, an NGO, reported that in 2012, no fewer than 1, 200 girls were raped in Rivers state. The state Project Officer of the body, Michael Gbarale, who is also the chairman of the Child Protection Network, added that: "of this figure (of 1,200), gang rapes were more frequent". 49 cases were ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703378/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:34 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703378/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By SIMON EBEGBULEM & GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--Edo State House of Assembly, yesterday, lamented what it described as the unacceptable number of abandoned Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, projects in the state and urged the Commission to make concerted efforts to complete them. Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Uyi Igbe, when the state representative on the Board of NDDC, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703380/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:33 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703380/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI ABUJA--The National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, said it would still go ahead and investigate allegations of corruption levelled against the former Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Lawal Hassan Gunmi, despite his voluntary resignation from office. Consequently, the Council which is presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Aloma ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703379/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703379/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By JIMITOTA ONOYUME The Police, yesterday, said its officers and men in the Rivers State Command might have committed errors in the discharge of their constitutional duties in the recent events unfolding in the state. The Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone 6, Calabar, Cross River State, Mr. Jonathan Johnson, when he led a delegation of senior police officers in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703381/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:32 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703381/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 A Lagos based lawyer, Ademola Koko has petitioned the Inspector General Police, IG, over alleged illegal activities, acts capable of disrupting public peace, and unconstitutional use of police, in respect of a landed property at Oribanwa village, Ibeju Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State by some persons in the area. The lawyer in the petition said, "Pursuant to our petition dated ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703382/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:31 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703382/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By GABRIEL ENOGHOLASEBY, GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN -- Justice V-O.A Oviawe of an Edo Court High Court sitting in Agenebode in Estako East Local Government Area of the state, has warned litigants before his court not to resort to intimidating and threatening of their opponents. He was reacting to the complaint by Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chairmanship candidate for Estako East council in the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703384/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703384/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By EGUFE YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT-- CAMPAIGN posters and flyers projecting President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election flooded Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State, yesterday. The posters, indicating a group, Voter 2 Voter, with a bold picture of the President, read "Our Dependable Choice 2015." The appearance of the campaign posters trailed escalated protests by ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703383/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:30 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703383/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By CHIDI NKWOPARA, Owerri This is not the best of times for Imo State and its people given the harvest of tragedies recorded in the state recently. The most recent is the ancient ancestral tree that fell in Umudagu, Ihitte Isi Mbieri community, Mbaitoli local council area of the State late Thursday night of May 16, killing no fewer than 50 people, with a yet to be ascertained number critically ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703385/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:29 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703385/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Ochereome Nnanna Dear compatriots, IUNDERSTAND what you are going through right now. No sooner did the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, declare a state of emergency in your state last week Tuesday, May 14, 2013, than the powers of the Nigerian State were unleashed on your area. The Nigerian Army deployed troops, and ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703386/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:28 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703386/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By KINGSLEY OMONOBI ABUJA--THE Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, said, yesterday, that soldiers who leaked information to terrorists about the movement of troops to Mali for AFISMA operations, thereby leading to the ambush and killing of two soldiers along the Okene-Lokoja road, have been arrested and are to face a military court martial. This was just as he disclosed that the ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703388/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703388/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Josef Omorotionmwan PROFESSOR Albert Chinualumogu Achebe (1930-2013) would have quickly reminded us that there was a country. We really had it good. Outside these coasts, Nigeria and Nigerians were held in very high esteem. The recognitions came in various forms, some very small but pertinent. It was in the summer of 1977. When Col. Olusegun Obasanjo, as he then was, Nigeria's Head of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703387/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:27 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703387/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Abuja The cyclone of cupboard cleansing currently permeating the Nigerian Judiciary, recorded fresh victims last week, as the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, in a decisive move, handed life ban to four legal practitioners. The four ex-lawyers, who were expressly barred from either practicing the legal profession in Nigeria or ever identifying themselves ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703389/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:26 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703389/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY VINCENT UJUMADU The crisis ridden Anambra State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has apparently run out of options in finding neutral political mediators to resolve its decade long crisis. As a last resort, party elders have beckoned on a retired judge to help out. PDP chieftains are banking on the legal and political experience of the former Chief Judge of Anambra State, Justice ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703391/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:25 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703391/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa--Bayelsa State governor, Mr Seriake Dickson, has raised alarm over alleged plot by some persons to destabilise the state. Already, security agencies, it was learnt, have been put on red alert in the coastal hinterland of the state, which are not accessible by road. Citing intelligence report at government disposal, the governor said part of the plan was to threaten ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703390/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:24 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703390/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY GABRIEL ENOGHOLASE BENIN--EDO State governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has directed that protesting students of Idogbo Secondary School, in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state, who destroyed the school’s property while protesting the death in an accident, of one their colleagues, to pay for the vandalised property. He also directed the Ministry of Lands to demolish, without ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703393/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:23 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703393/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 By Funmi Komolafe WITH globalisation, the world of work witnessed a new trend in employer- employee relationship. Out-sourcing became a new trend with employers outsourcing jobs which they consider not to crucial to their core business. From the perspective of organised labour, it was seen as the employers way of reducing the cost of labour. As a result, private human capital providers were ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703392/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:22 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703392/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY DAYO ADESULU & CALEB AYANSINA …vow to prosecute operators The National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC) have commenced their joint operation to crack down on illegal degree-awarding institutions in the country. Already, 41 illegal universities have been closed nationwide . Vanguard Learning gathered ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703394/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:21 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703394/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Some shareholder groups said that they boycotted a meeting called by the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC, to resolve issues on the e-dividend payment because they were not involved in the proposals. The groups told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that they were also aggrieved because the Commission failed to protect their interest during the downturn in the capital market. NAN ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703396/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:20 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703396/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY ONOZURE DANIA The Lagos State Chief Judge, Justice Ayotunde Phillips, has said some awaiting trial inmates would be released from prison before the end of next month. Justice Phillips said this during a visit to the Nigerian Prisons, Ikoyi, by members of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Ikeja branch, which is part of activities marking the 2013 Law Week. The judge, who was represented by ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703395/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:19 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703395/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 BY ANAYO OKOLI UMUAHIA--ABIA State House of Assembly has directed the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, and one of its host communities, Amaoba Ime, to steer clear of the disputed land between them, pending the resolution of the matter Amaoba had petitioned the House, complaining that the university authorities had encroached on its land and threatened to resist it, ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703397/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:48:18 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214703397/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Britain is investigating a possible Nigerian link to attackers suspected of hacking a soldier to death in London while shouting Islamic slogans, two sources with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters on condition of ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702081/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:04:16 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702081/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has commended ex- Super Eagles midfielder Mutiu Adepoju for his ingenuity, deep thinking and plan for the Lagos International Football Tournament, assuring him of government's partnership and support for the soccer ... http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702270/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:04:12 -0400 http://www.nigeriasun.com/index.php/sid/214702270/scat/8db1f72cde37faf3