There was mayhem at the University of Benin, UNIBEN, Ugbowo Campus on Friday when unknown gunmen shot and killed Gbenedio Ejiroghene, a 300-level student of the Department of Chemistry. It was learnt that Ejiroghene, popularly known as “Cazito,” was taking part in a jeans carnival organised for final-year students of the Faculty of Physical Sciences,…
Boko Haram Frees Abducted Women, Marries Off Girls
Boko Haram insurgents, who reportedly abducted about 60 women and 40 girls from two border villages between Adamawa and Borno states, this week, have freed the women among their captives. Villagers, who spoke on the issue with newsmen in a telephone interview from their hideouts, disclosed this. Relatives of some of the abducted women who…
Victims Seek Life Imprisonment For Rapists
Rape victims on Thursday besieged the National Assembly, demanding that bills that seek to protect women and children against violence are passed before the end of the current legislative session. The protesters, mostly young ladies, who shared their agonizing rape experiences, had female federal lawmakers almost in tears as they listened to them. A bill,…
NFF: Court Nullifies Pinnick’s Election
A Federal High Court in Jos, Plateau State, has nullified the Warri General Assembly and the Elective Congress that elected Amaju Pinnick as the president, Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. In giving the order, Justice Ambrose Alagoa, said the Warri Extra Ordinary meeting of September 20 and the Elective Congress of September 30, were direct contravention…
Jonathan Finally Declares 2015 Presidential Ambition
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday, declared his ambition to seek re-election by contesting in the 2015 presidential election. He told Peoples Democratic Party leaders at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that he would procure nomination form of the party before the deadline. The National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, October 22, gave…
Fire Outbreak At Lagos International Airport
There was a fire outbreak at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos on Thursday morning. The fire, which was quickly traced to the electric panel room on the second floor of the terminal by a combined team of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN’s electrical engineers and fire officers, was extinguished shortly…
Boko Haram Kidnaps 40 Girls In Adamawa
Report from Adamawa State has it that another set of 40 girls were Thursday, kidnapped by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram. The latest victims are said to be different from the 60 women reportedly kidnapped from two towns in the state earlier in the week. The militants now control about three local government areas in Adamawa…
‘I Promise To Make A Difference’ – Physically-Challenged Politician
Abubakar Ardo, Chairman of Nigeria Association for the Blind, on Thursday, picked a nomination form to contest for a seat in the House of Representatives for the Gombi/Hong Federal Constituency in Adamawa on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ardo who said he was in the race to make a difference, if given…
‘I’ll Beat Jonathan Easily’- Kwankwaso
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Kano State Governor and presidential hopeful on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan would be easy to defeat during the 2015 elections. Kwankwaso who is determined to emerge as the candidate of the opposition APC, dismissed speculations that he would step down for any…
Nigeria Drops In FIFA World Ranking
Nigeria has dropped by five spots in the October edition of the FIFA /Coca-Cola World Ranking released on Thursday. According to the October ranking on FIFA’s website, Nigeria now has 632 points as against 642 points it garnered in September, ranking 42nd in the world and 9th in Africa. Nigeria, the African Champions fell 1-0…
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