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Wales football manager Gary Speed is dead. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) announced that Gary Speed died at the age of 42. Police stated that Speed was found hanged yesterday morning after committing suicide. He left behind a wife and two chil...
Yasmine el-Rufai, eldest daughter of the former minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasiru el-Rufai, was found dead in her residence in London yesterday. She was 25 years old. The cause of her death is still unknown but there was a suspici...
A human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, has faulted President Goodluck Jonathan over the setting up of a presidential Committee on the Review the 1999 Constitution, saying the action is a ruse to divert attention from the popular demand for a new con...
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN), yesterday said that the first eight kilometres of the blue line light rail project would be completed next year. The governor, who fielded question from journalists after inspecting some strategic ongoing p...
The Movement for Revolutionary Change (MRC) has called for the renaming of University of Nigeria, Nsukka as “Odumegwu Ojukwu University (OON)” in honour of the late National Leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Late Dim Chukwuemek...
Figures released by the Zonal Commandant of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Zone 5, in Benin City, the Edo State capital, indicate that 209 persons died and over 991 sustained injuries in 271 road crashes in Edo, Delta and Anambra States in the third...
Men of the 2 Amphibious Brigade, Nigerian Army, Port Harcourt, yesterday killed one suspected kidnapper and arrested nine of his colleagues after a shootout at Omoku in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni local government area of Rivers State. Army spokesman in the stat...
No fewer than five shops were at the weekend destroyed by fire which gutted the commercial area of the 2 Amphibious Brigade, Nigerian Army, Bori Camp, Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. This was even as the authorities of Nigerian Army gave quit ...
Some Nigerians in the United States of America have described the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as ``a very remarkable Nigerian’’, who will be missed by all, especially, the Igbo. Odimegwu-Ojukwu, 78, died in the early hours of Satu...
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Tambuwal, Ihedioha, Others Mourn Former military president, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (retd) has described the late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu as a great Nigerian who fought for the betterment of the society. In a statement made available to LEADERSHIP ...
The Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido, has said that the federal government spent $8 billion on the importation of petroleum products in 2011 alone through oil marketers. Sanusi added that&nbs...
Serving and retired jurists, at the end of the All Nigeria Judges’ Conference have praised the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Dahiru Musdapher, for what they described as his auspicious leadership in piloting the affairs of t...
Five Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) local government chairmen in Bayelsa State chapter have accused Governor Timipre Sylva of sponsoring non- PDP members to Abuja to protest his disqualification from the November 19 PDP governorship primary elect...
Akanimo Sampson in Port Harcourt writes on Rivers State Government’s plan to demolish waterfronts in Port Harcourt and the attendant political controversy. The contentious waterfronts in Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State, will soon ...