Margee Ensign, President of the American University of Nigeria, AUN, Yola, Adamawa State, has bemoaned the neglect that Internally Displaced Persons, IDP’s in the North East have been subjected to. Ensign made the disclosure on Thursday when a delegation from the University paid a courtesy visit to the Lagos corporate headquarters of TELL Communications Limited,…
IGP Cautions Against Inciting Policemen
Suleiman Abba, Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, has warned Nigerians who incite officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force to desist from the act or face the wrath of the law. In a statement issued today by Emmanuel Ojukwu, the Force Public Relations Officer, Abba was quoted as saying that some members of the…
Singapore to Cane and Imprison Two German Youths
A court in Singapore has sentenced two German youths to nine months imprisonment and three strokes of the cane each for breaking into a depot and spray-painting graffiti on a commuter train. 22-year-old Andreas Von Knorre and Elton Hinz, 21, were accused of vandalism and trespass after they broke into one of Singapore’s train depots…
AIT Threatens to Sue Tinubu
Daar Communications Plc, owners of African Independent Television,AIT, has finally responded to legal threat raised by Bola Tinubu, chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The management of the media outfit rejected in its entirety the demands of Tunji Abayomi, lawyer to Bola Tinubu over a documentary titled “Unmasking The Real Tinubu” transmitted on AIT,…
Zimbabwe: Children with Cholera Quarantined
Eight cholera cases have been confirmed in Harare, Zimbabwe, including two on the border with South Africa, state media reported on Thursday. The broadcasting corporation said, two children, aged five and 10, had been quarantined with cholera at Beitbridge District Hospital, six other cases had been recorded in Mudzi and Chiredzi, where 41 people have…
Desperate Politicians Violate Abuja Peace Accord – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan says some desperate politicians have violated the Abuja peace accord by hiring and brainwashing young people to perpetrate violence in the country. Jonathan recalled his experience in Katsina State when his convoy was stoned by some hoodlums on his reelection campaign to the state, and lamented that most of the hoodlums are…
Surrender or Get Killed, Chadian President Tells Shekau
President Idriss Deby of Chad, on Wednesday, revealed that he knows the hideout of Abubakar Shekau, the Boko Haram leader, and vowed that the leader of the insurgent group will be killed if he fails to surrender. “It is in Abubakar Shekau’s interest to surrender, we know where he is. If he refuses to give…
Senate Stands Down Obanikoro Once Again
For the second time in one week, the Senate on Wednesday refused to deliberate on the ministerial nomination of Musiliu Obanikoro, former minister of State of Defence. The Senate cleared four ministerial nominees and shifted debates on another three, including Obanikoro to next week. The deferment was the second in one week for Obanikoro who…
Couple Arraigned For Fraud
The Economics and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has charged Osinachi Nwachukwu and Ifeyinwa Nwachukwu to a Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital for an offense bordering on fraud. The couple is facing a 3-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining the sum of N800, 000 by false pretence from one Charles…
March 28 Election, Most Important In Africa – US
Sean Mclntosh, Press Attache of the United States Embassy in Abuja has described the upcoming March 28 Presidential election in Nigeria as the most important on the African continent. McIntosh who stated this during a familiarisation visit to the Lagos corporate headquarters of TELL Communications Limited, publishers of TELL and BroadStreet Journal, BSJ, said the…
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