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 Speak up about your ailment, Gani tells Yar’Adua
Lagos lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) has challenged President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to disclose his ailment to the Nigerian people.Fawehinmi gave the challenge in Lagos on Wednesday during a courtesy visit by the Edo State governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC), Adams Oshiomhole. |
18 die, 6 injured in auto crash
A female member of the National Youth Service Corps and her daughter were among the 18 people who lost their lives in a ghastly auto crash, which occurred yesterday along the Benin-Akure Road. |
Yar’Adua’s health situation exaggerated – Group
A socio-political pressure group, Nigeria Youths and Elders Forum (NYEF) has described the alarm being raised over the state of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s health as “unnecessary exaggeration” saying “there is nothing specially wrong with Mr. President that can suggest that he is medically deficient.” |
Try Obasanjo for genocide -MASSOB
Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has called on the international community to try former Nigerian President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for alleged genocide which his administration committed against its members. |
Kidnapping: Court discharges Onu
A case of kidnap, preferred against, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) governorship candidate in Ebonyi State in the April 14, 2007 election, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, before an Abakaliki Magistrate Court, has been struck out for want of diligent prosecution. |
Gunmen kill brother to Chime’s aide
The Special Assistant to Enugu State governor on Public Enlightenment and Information, Mr. Paul Nnajiofor’s elder brother, Mr. Christian Nnajiofor, has been killed by unknown gunmen. |
Hope dashed at Imo PDP peace meeting
Hope for the eventual resolution of the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Imo State by the Senator Jim Nwobodo-led South East Peace and Reconciliation Committee, has suffered a major setback, following the absence of the major gladiators at the three-day reconciliation held in the Owerri, the State capital. |
1.O54m candidates to write UME Saturday
A record 1,054, 043 candidates will this Saturday write the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) for admission into first degree programmes in the Nigerian universities for the 2008/2009 academic session. However, only about 200,000 representing 20 per cent of the figure will eventually be admitted in existing universities. |
N3bn UBA microfinance bank makes debut
UBA microfinance bank on Tuesday made a debut with a N3 billion fully paid capital base. Group Managing Director of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Mr. Tony Elumelu, announced the birth at a media briefing on the up coming launch of its latest subsidiary: UBA Microfinance Bank (UBA MFB) Limited. |
Mother of little girl hit by strange boil cries for help
In the last six years, Meekness Nwachukwu has been in pains over a boil she developed when she was three years old.
Little Nwachukwu, the fifth child in a family of six, was born normal, but when he was three , she developed a little boil on her right thigh. |
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Iyabo Obasanjo’s matter beyond us –Senate
The Senate yesterday tactically withdrew its support for the embattled Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello.
Briefing newsmen after a brief plenary session, the Senate Chairman on Media and Public Affairs, Senator Ayogu Eze, discarded the Ogun senator’s case by saying: “The Senate can neither account for the long absence of Senator Iyabo nor can it stake its neck on a matter that is before the court of law.” |
Igwes’ murder: Leave me alone, Mbadinuju tells police
Former Anambra State Governor, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju has cried out loud to the police to leave him alone over the murder of Igwe couple, reminding them that he had been discharged and acquitted over the matter by a court of competent jurisdiction after a legal exercise lasting almost six years. |
Bankole’s comment on oil earnings reckless – David-West
Ex-Minister of Petroleum, Professor Tam David West, has taken the Speaker, House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, to task over his statement that Nigeria has no record of its oil production and sales for the past 40 years. |
 Pay ME... or I quit
Emmanuel Adebayor has threatened to throw Arsenal into full-blown crisis by following Mathieu Flamini and Alexander Hleb out of the door, unless they make him into one of the Premier League's top earners. |
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CAPTIVE FOR 7 MONTHS
The 16-year-old son of Chief Asara A. Asara, Commissioner for Duties for Special, Bayelsa State, Inierunanam Asara, kidnapped seven months ago, has regained freedom after his parents refused to pay a ransom of N27 million demanded by the kidnappers. |
 Iyabo Obasanjo afraid of trial – EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, is afraid of standing trial in the face of overwhelming evidence against her over the N300 million fraud at the Federal Ministry of Health. |
Lagos bans street parties
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), on Monday signed into law a bill banning the blocking of roads for any form of social or commercial activities in any part of the state. |
Bomb blast allegation, attempt to frustrate my case –Aregbesola
Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in Osun State during last year’s election, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has dismissed the attempt to link him and his supporters with the June 14, 2007 bomb blast in the state as a desperate effort to frustrate his on-going case against Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the state election tribunal. |
Commissioner’s aides die in boat mishap
Two people, a journalist and a Mobile policeman on Monday lost their lives when their boat capsized at Angalabiri, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. |
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GNU: ANPP warns FG
National Secretary of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Senator Saidu Kumo, has warned that his party would withdraw from the Government of National Unity (GNU) if the Federal Government does not remain focused and committed to the cause of the masses. |
NANS refutes alleged killing on campus
Leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), University of Nigeria, Nsukka has reacted to media report that some one was allegedly killed in the school premises and the beheaded head of the victim found in the school with a note beside it . |
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Why is the APGA crisis irresolvable?
Well, I will say that I have on my own done what I consider as my best to resolve the APGA crisis out of court. It is on record that there have been about 15 peace initiatives, some from my side and some from the other side. |
Nigeria named Commonwealth panel member
Nigeria has been appointed member of the Commonwealth Ministerial Review Panel charged with the responsibility of assessing the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Youths Programme. |
Respect your deputies, Jonathan tells governors
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday in Omu-Ijebu, Odogbolu Local Government Area of Ogun State, urged serving governors in the country to always respect the wishes and aspiration of their deputies. |
Adedibu to be flown abroad
Ailing Ibadan politician, Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu, may be flown to London today for more medical attention.
Daily Sun learnt yesterday that the health of the strongman of Ibadan politics and a chieftain of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have failed to improve since he left Reddington Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos, last week, a development that prompted his aides and children to conclude plans to take him to London for more attention. |
Hell visits Lagos, 39 roasted in pipeline fire
