Nigeria

KADUNA – A twin bomb blast tore through Kaduna yesterday, killing a policeman and injured a Senior Special Adviser to the governor, Col. Dangana Maman (rtd). The first one went off at Ungwar Sarki Market, Kaduna North Local Government of Kaduna State at about 11:30am yesterday. Ten minutes later, another blast occurred about 500m away, under a busy overhead pedestrian bridge instantly killing a policeman, Sergeant Sunday Badang, an anti- bomb specialist who was trying to defuse the bomb...Read Full Story

Organized religionists in Nigeria are running into aggressive mentality causing a devastating approach to the unity of Nigeria. This people think that God is their personal acquisition because the constitution of Nigeria stipulated Christianity and Islam as the two official religions in Nigeria oblivious that this is the British imperialists’ hindsight. It’s this marooned way of looking at issues that informed the opinion of one Adamu Adamu who on the 10th of February 2012 wrote an article in...Read Full Story

There was wild jubilation in Owerri, the Imo State capital, as the executive governor of the state, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on February 14, declared that no student or pupil of the state origin studying in any institution owned by the government would pay fees. He also used the medium to announced scholarships programme for all students of Imo State origin from primary to tertiary institution. Speaking at the Imo Freedom Square in Owerri, Okorocha promised to pay a scholarship of N100,000...Read Full Story

News! Governor Rochas Okorocha Gives free education in Imo state This is Good New for All Imo State Students! This is the best Valentine News I have heard today. We want to use this Platform to Announced to the general public that The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has declared free Education in Primary school, Secondary school and now Tertiary /Universities/Polytechnic. All students of Imo Origin studying in Imo State University will be entitled to a scholarship of N100,000.00...Read Full Story

Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on Tuesday declared that no student or pupil of Imo State origin studying in any institution owned by the state would pay fees. He also announced scholarships for all students and pupils of Imo State origin from primary to tertiary level. Addressing a huge crowd at the Imo Freedom Square in Owerri, the governor promised to pay a scholarship of N100,000 to each student of Imo origin in Imo State University. Each recipient would get N70,000 free...Read Full Story

A 25 year-old unemployed man in Lagos is standing trial for allegedly stripping a woman naked after beating her. The accused, Saheed Akorede, of Boundary Area of Ajegunle, appeared before an Apapa Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Monday on a three-count charge of felony, assault and stealing. Akorede, however, pleaded not guilty before Chief Magistrate Mr Amos Adeyemi. The Prosecutor, Corporal Friday Inedu, told the court that the accused had a case to answer for tearing his victim’s clothes. He...Read Full Story

Read more below: Five of the major oil marketers that have been benefiting from the Federal Government petroleum subsidy scheme have disclosed how they shared N182 billion among themselves under the subsidy scheme within two years. The major oil marketers made up of Conoil Nigeria Ltd, A. A Rano, ASB Investment Ltd, Forte Oil Nigeria and Knight Bridge Ltd that appeared before the Joint Senate Committee probing petroleum subsidy, yesterday, in Abuja gave detailed accounts of their various...Read Full Story

Police are reporting an explosion in a central Nigeria city that has seen attacks claimed by a radical Islamist sect. The Kaduna State Police spokesperson told The Associated Press an explosion occurred on Tuesday morning in a residential neighbourhood in Kaduna. Aminu Lawan said officers from the police's anti-bomb squad said they had found other unexploded bombs in the area. He said there have been no reports of casualties. A radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram claimed a similar...Read Full Story

Strange!! Strange!! Strange!!! While others are eagerly looking for a child, those who were opportune want to get ride of it. Residents of Ikot Abasi Idem village in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government of Akwa Ibom State are in a State of shock and disbelief following the bizarre news of a 19- year- old Mother Nsidibe Effiong who strangle and dump her 3-week-old baby in a pit. It was gathered that the shameless and frustrating Effiong had her first child less than a year and a half ago and was...Read Full Story

It’s ungodly to criticise CAN president —Bishop Isong, C/River PFN chair From JUDEX OKORO, Calabar Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Isong Chairman, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Cross River State, Bishop Emmah Isong, has said that it is “ungodly” for church leaders to openly criticise the CAN President on national issues. He said such is capable of causing disunity and generating bad blood within the Christendom. He spoke in an interview in Calabar. Excerpts: Comments against the...Read Full Story