NEWS : Crackdown on prostitutes may reduce condom use

Crackdown on prostitutes may reduce condom use | credits: Clampdown on sex workers around the Olympic Stadium may mean that most of the 15 condoms allocated to each of the 10,500 athletes in camp may have to be used in other areas. At major games such as the Olympics, sex itself is an athlete. The organisers may not have created a specific event for it but they recognise that it is...

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UNBELIEVABLE : Bank driver arrested with 19 ATM cards, N652,000

Bank driver arrested with 19 ATM cards, N652,000 Oladujoye and items recovered from him. | credits: Eniola Akinkuotu The Lagos State Police Command has arrested Dare Oladujoye, a driver with Zenith Bank, for allegedly being in possession of 19 Guaranty Trust Bank ATM cards and the sum of N652, 000. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspect was using the cards to withdraw money from an ATM at...

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NEWS : UNILAG honours Adeboye, Fayemi, 47 others

UNILAG honours Adeboye, Fayemi, 47 others Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye; Senate Majority leader, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba (SAN); former Lagos State Deputy Governor, Mrs. Sarah Sosan; and 46 other distinguished alumni of the University of Lagos, Akoka were on Friday conferred with the “Distinguished...

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Gunmen kill one at VP Sambo’s house • Suicide bomber attacks office of AIG zone 10 • Suspected terrorists on the rampage in Sokoto, Kaduna AIG Zone 10 office in Sokoto after an attack by a suspected suicide bomber. Right: Wreckage of the Honda car used by the bomber... on Monday. | credits: NAN GUNMEN   early Monday attacked the family residence of the Vice-President Namadi ...

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SAD : Gunmen kill one at VP Sambo’s house • Suicide bomber attacks office of AIG zone 10 • Suspected terrorists on the rampage in Sokoto, Kaduna

Gunmen kill one at VP Sambo’s house • Suicide bomber attacks office of AIG zone 10 • Suspected terrorists on the rampage in Sokoto, Kaduna AIG Zone 10 office in Sokoto after an attack by a suspected suicide bomber. Right: Wreckage of the Honda car used by the bomber... on Monday. | credits: NAN GUNMEN   early Monday attacked the family residence of the Vice-President Namadi ...

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NEWS : ACN wrong on call for Tukur’s resignation – PDP

ACN wrong on call for Tukur’s resignation – PDP PDP National Chairman, Dr Bamanga Tukur | credits: The Peoples Democratic Party has described the Action Congress of Nigeria as a bundle of contradictions. The PDP, which was reacting to the ACN’s call on its National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur to resign from office following the ongoing trial of one his sons, Mahmud, for alleged involvement...

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EXPOSED : EFCC faults nationality claims of subsidy fraud suspect

EFCC faults nationality claims of subsidy fraud suspect EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde | credits: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission at a Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Monday pointed out contradictions in the nationality claims by a suspect on the fuel subsidy fraud, Mr. Christian Taylor, who was arraigned on Thursday. Taylor, along with Mamman Ali, son of Ahmadu Ali, a former...

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NEWS : Fifty years after divorce, couple set to remarry

Fifty years after divorce, couple set to remarry Like a story out of a bestseller, Lena Henderson and Roland Davis are set to remarry, 50 years after they divorced. The Buffalo News reports that the Seneca, New York pair married as teenagers and were together for 20 years before they divorced in 1964 after four children together. The Buffalo couple met in Chattanooga, Tennessee back when they...

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NEWS : Falana blames Obasanjo, IBB for nation’s woes

Falana blames Obasanjo, IBB for nation’s woes Obasanjo, Babangida | credits: Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, on Monday blamed the current woes confronting the country on two former heads of state Generals Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida. Falana critisised the two former leaders in a statement on Monday following a joint statement by the duo stating that there was “poverty, fear...

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NEWS : Budget: Lawmakers’ constituency projects stalling implementation –FG

Budget: Lawmakers’ constituency projects stalling implementation –FG David Mark and Aminu Tambuwal | credits: The Federal Government on Monday said that the insistence of new members of the National Assembly to initiate constituency projects in their names, rather than continuing with projects in the names of the their predecessors, had been hampering implementation of the 2012 budget. The...

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EXPOSED : Navy destroys N100m stolen petroleum products

Navy destroys N100m stolen petroleum products | credits: The Nigerian Navy in Calabar, Cross River State has destroyed about 1, 000 drums containing diesel and petrol worth over N100m allegedly siphoned from pipelines and stored in two warehouses in Ikang, headquarters of Bakassi Local Government Area. One of the warehouses on the premises of Mic Akodof Nigeria Limited filing station,...

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IMPRESSIVE : Army rescues 300 human trafficking victims

Army rescues 300 human trafficking victims Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Azubuike Ihejirika | credits: The Kogi State Army Commandant of Quick Respond Group Team,   Maj. Gen. Alphonsus Chukwu, on Sunday said the team rescued no fewer than 300 human trafficking victims. Speaking during a media briefing in Lokoja, he said the victims, who came from Benue State, were rescued along...

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EXPOSED : Return N.7m exhibit in 30 days, court orders police

Return N.7m exhibit in 30 days, court orders police Lagos CP, Umar Manko. | credits: An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, has ordered the state Commissioner of Police to return N700,000 which was used as an exhibit within 30 days. The money ought to have been given back to a man, Mr. Emeka Okeke, after he was discharged and acquitted in a case of arson. At the hearing on Friday,...

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EXPOSED : FG to send soldiers to fight Islamists in Mali

FG to send soldiers to fight Islamists in Mali Nigerian Soldiers | credits: INDICATIONS emerged on Sunday that Nigeria will soon deploy soldiers in Mali to confront the Islamists troubling the West African country, the Presidency and foreign affairs ministry said on Sunday. Spokespersons for President Goodluck Jonatha, Reuben Abati; and Foreign Affairs Ministry, Ogbole Ahmedu-Ode, say...

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EXPOSED : Nigerians living in fear, uncertainty – Obasanjo, IBB

Nigerians living in fear, uncertainty – Obasanjo, IBB Obasanjo, Babangida | credits: Former heads of state, General Olusegun Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida have expressed concern over the growing insecurity in the country, saying “Nigeria is currently under fear and uncertainty.” In a joint statement obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, they warned that the consequences...

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Subsidy probe not a witch-hunt –Tambuwal

Subsidy probe not a witch-hunt –Tambuwal Hon. Speaker, House of Representative, Aminu Tambuwal | credits: Speaker of the  House of Representatives, Mr. Aminu Tambuwal, insists that the fuel subsidy  investigation is not a witch-hunt but rather to instill transparency in the running of public offices. The Speaker said this through his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Imam Imam,...

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EXPOSED : Reps fault FG’s 56% budget implementation claim

Reps fault FG’s 56% budget implementation claim Chairman, House of Representative Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Zakari Mohammed | credits: File copy The House of Representatives on Sunday faulted the claim by the Executive that it had achieved 56 per cent implementation of the 2012 budget. It said the 56 per cent was the percentage of the N404bn of cash-backed releases to Ministries,...

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UNBELIVABLE : Third Mainland Bridge: 3.4 million people used ferries in two months

Third Mainland Bridge: 3.4 million people used ferries in two months About 3,350,000 passengers were ferried through waterways in Lagos State between May and July, 2012, statistics from the Lagos State Waterways Authority have shown. The Managing Director, LASWA, Mr. Yinka Marinho, who spoke to our correspondent, said there was a “tremendous” increase in the number of passengers who used...

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