Kumuyi urges govt to tackle killings

Kumuyi urges govt to tackle killings The General Superintendent of Deeper Life Bible Ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi, on Tuesday in Lokoja urged the federal and Kogi State governments to equip security agencies to prevent recurrence of killings of innocent Nigerians. Kumuyi, during a visit to the Kogi State Governor Idris Wada said there was the need to improve on the security of people,...

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Govt lawyers advise FG to try Lawan, Otedola

Govt lawyers advise FG to try Lawan, Otedola INVESTIGATIONS by The PUNCH have revealed that the Federal Government is in a dilemma about the probe of the Farouk Lawan-Femi Otedola $620,000 bribery scandal. The government, sources affirmed, had been undecided whether to prosecute only Lawan, the suspended chairman of the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, who had...

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Presidential panel wants police ministry scrapped …says IG earns less than D-G SSS, EFCC chair

Presidential panel wants police ministry scrapped …says IG earns less than D-G SSS, EFCC chair The 2012 Presidential Committee on the Reorganisation of the Nigeria Police on Tuesday told President Goodluck Jonathan to scrap the Ministry of Police Affairs, saying the ministry was no longer relevant in line with the 1999 Constitution as amended. The committee also faulted the disparity in...

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Jonathan has done well – PDP

Jonathan has done well – PDP Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his contribution to national development. A statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, said any objective assessment of Jonathan would reveal what his administration had achieved in the last 14 months. The party said efforts by some politicians...

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TERRIBLE : Two suspected bombers blow selves up

Two suspected bombers blow selves up Part of Kaduna metropolis was on Tuesday thrown into confusion as two suspected suicide bombers blew up themselves while taking an object suspected to be a bomb to an unknown destination. The two suspects, according to an eyewitness, were on a motorcycle heading towards the northern part of the state at about 3pm when the object exploded killing them...

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NEWS : LASG signs law to test, jail traffic

LASG signs law to test, jail traffic  Governor Babatunde Fashola | credits: Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Thursday signed the state’s Road Traffic Law which recommends psychiatric, breath and urine tests, fines and prison terms, among others for traffic offences. Fashola, during a short signing ceremony at the State House, Alausa, Ikeja, said the law was in response...

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TERRIBLE : Policeman arraigned for shooting girlfriend’s sister

Policeman arraigned for shooting girlfriend’s sister The police on Tuesday arraigned Emmanuel Okujo, a 31-year-old police corporal, who allegedly shot his girlfriend’s sister, Blessing Isanbor, with an AK47 rifle on February 10, 2012. Okujo, who also absconded with the victim’s 19-year-old sister, Patience Isanbor, was charged with attempted murder before an Ikeja Magistrate’s Court. The...

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ALARMING : Only 250,000 people can live in Eko Atlantic -Fashola

Only 250,000 people can live in Eko Atlantic -Fashola Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has stated that only 250,000 people can live in the state’s new city under construction, Eko Atlantic after its completion. The governor stated this while speaking at an event in City Hall, Lagos to mark his 1,900 days in office as governor. He was...

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Man who buried kidnapped victim alive surrenders to police

Man who buried kidnapped victim alive surrenders to police A suspected kidnapper, one Emma, 27 has voluntarily surrendered himself to the police in Delta State about eight months after he allegedly buried a kidnapped victim in his custody alive in his compound. The victim yet to be identified hailed from Uzere in Isoko South Local Government Area of...

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Ondo guber: ACN strategises to neutralise Mimiko’s popularity

Ondo guber: ACN strategises to neutralise Mimiko’s popularity …Slates mega rally for month end By RAZAQ BAMIDELE Feeling uncomfortable with the soaring popularity of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State ahead of the October 20 governorship election, the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has gone back to the drawing board to strategise...

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Why Boko Haram persists, by Danmusa, ex-Deputy Senate President

Why Boko Haram persists, by Danmusa, ex-Deputy Senate President As long as there is injustice and a good number of Nigerians living in poverty, Boko Haram and other terror groups would continue to thrive, says former Deputy Senate President Abubakar Mamman Danmusa. The Second Republic Deputy Senate President, who spoke exclusively to Daily Sun in Katsina,...

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Ceding of Bakassi: Reps promise to revisit Green Tree Agreement

Ceding of Bakassi: Reps promise to revisit Green Tree Agreement The House of Representatives has promised to re-visit the Green Tree Agreement signed between Nigeria and Cameroon. The GTA was done at Greentree, New York, on June 12, 2006 following the ICJ ruling ceding Bakassi Peninsula to neigbhouring Cameroon in October 10, 210. While former President...

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Police arrest doctor who allegedly removed patient’s kidneys

Police arrest doctor who allegedly removed patient’s kidneys ...

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The Lagos Road Traffic Law

The Lagos Road Traffic Law Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, recently took a drastic step in the effort to ease traffic flow and improve road safety in the state with the signing into law of a new traffic legislation. Tagged Lagos Road Traffic Law, the legislation prohibits driving against traffic and eating, smoking or making phone calls...

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SPORT : Mancini wants more players

Mancini wants more players Roberto Mancini | credits: Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini hopes to bring in more players before the transfer window closes after agreeing a fee with Everton – believed to be £15 million – for midfielder Jack Rodwell. Rodwell’s move from Goodison Park to City is expected to go through, subject to him passing a medical, and it will make him Mancini’s first...

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NEWS : Jonathan should resign – Northern CAN

Jonathan should resign – Northern CAN President Goodluck Jonathan | credits: Christians in the North have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to resign over his comment on Boko Haram. Jonathan was quoted to have said he could not crush the Islamic sect because “they are our siblings and you cannot set the army to wipe out your family”. In a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Sunday Oibe, the...

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SORROW : Tears as man brutalised by soldiers is buried

Tears as man brutalised by soldiers is buried Adewale Olupitan-Hassan, who died after being allegedly brutalised by soldiers attached to the Flag Staff House, Force Road, Lagos, has been buried. At a prayer session held at his Opebi residence before his remains were interred at the Atan Cemetery, Lagos, on Saturday, friends, associates and family members paid tribute to the retired director...

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EMERGENCY?! : NLC holds emergency meeting on PHCN crisis

NLC holds emergency meeting on PHCN crisis The leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress is to hold a crucial meeting on Monday (today) in Abuja to deliberate on a planned meeting between the Federal Government and the organised labour on the industrial dispute between electricity workers and the government. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, had sent out invitation...

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SAD: Olympics end as Nigeria return with no medal

Olympics end as Nigeria return with no medal The London 2012 Olympic Games ended on Sunday with Team Nigeria returning home with no medal, raising questions over the N1.9bn budgeted for the Nigeria’s participation at the Games. It was an unusual record compared to the nation’s achievements at the Games in the past two decades. It was one that reminded Nigerians of the woeful performance...

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NOTORIOUS : Leadership petitions police over battery of photo journalist

Leadership petitions police over battery of photo journalist Leadership Newspaper has petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,  Umaru Manko, over the beating of its photojournalist, Benedict Uwalaka, by some mortuary attendants at  the state’s University Teaching Hospital. Uwalaka was attacked while covering the release of the corpses of the victims of Dana plane crash...

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NEWS UPDATE : Lagos, Kaduna, C’River, Ogun, Oyo top foreign debtors’ list

Lagos, Kaduna, C’River, Ogun, Oyo top foreign debtors’ list Governor Babatunde Fashola | credits: Lagos, Kaduna, Cross River, Ogun and Oyo occupied the top position on the list of external debts incurred by state governments as of June 30, 2012. According to states and Federal Government’s external debt stock obtained by SATURDAY PUNCH from the Debt Management Office, Borno, Delta, Plateau,...

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NEWS : Davido fights with taxi driver over girlfriend

Davido fights with taxi driver over girlfriend The cab at the scene of the incident | credits: A taxi driver, Femi Ajibola, will never forget July 1, 2012 in a hurry. At about 5.30 pm on that day, he received a phone call from a young woman in the Lekki area of Lagos and had quickly answered the subsequent invitation to pick her up. “The lady introduced her as Susie. She called me to...

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