Police rescue 55 children and arrested 12 suspected human traffickers
Benue State Police command yesterday paraded 12 suspected human traffickers just as it rescued 55 children from them along Otukpo – Enugu road.
Accept a Yoruba leader or go back to Igboland, Ladipo Traders told by Lagos State Govt.
The crisis rocking the leadership of Ladipo Auto Spare Parts Market, Mushin, took a new dimension on Thursday as the executive members of Ladipo Central Executive Auto Dealers Association and some of its members took to the streets protesting the imposition of Alhaji Oladotun Abibu Oki as the Babaloja of the market. LACEC and its…
The Selling of new born Babies continue in Igboland as Woman sells her Baby for N100,000
The police in Imo State are now investigating how a 27 year old housewife, Mrs Njideka Okorie eloped with six months pregnancy and went into hiding where she was later delivered of a baby girl which she sold to one Agatha Okoronkwo at Isieka Ihiala in Anambra State for N100,000. Saturday Sun gathered that Njideka…
Nigerian Army claim they have cornered Boko Haram leader Shekau in Bornu Hills
The leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, may have been cornered by operatives of the Joint Task Force in Gwoza hills, Borno State. A top security source told Saturday PUNCH on Thursday that the JTF had located the area where the Boko Haram leader was hiding. The source stated, “We are…
Arewa youths claims Northern Elders are responsible for North’s problems
Northern youths on Thursday criticised their elders over what they described as calls for the nation’s Presidency to return to the region in 2015. The youth, under the aegis of the Arewa Peoples Patriotic Front, said rather than calling for Presidency to return to the North, the elders should saddle themselves with the responsibility of…
Presidency tells Five Northern Govs, you are agents of opposition
The presidency, yesterday, described the five northern governors, who carpeted Peoples Democratic Party over alleged poor leadership and internal crises, as agents of the opposition. It warned them to desist from continuing to engage in acts capable of unduly heating up the polity and distracting President Goodluck Jonathan from delivering on his promises to Nigerians.…
Igbo youths condemn Turaki over Boko Haram compensation for victims
Igbo youths have condemned chairman of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution on Security Challenges in the North,
Boko Harm kills two Nigerian Majors and thirteen other Soldiers
Two Army Majors and thirteen soldiers killed by Boko Haram Terrorists in the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe, as well as UNAMID operations in Darfur, Sudan, were yesterday given national burial at the National Military Cemetery in Abuja with President Goodluck Jonathan insisting that the nation will win the war on terror. At the…
Justice Akanbi holds politicians responsible for the woes afflicting Nigeria
Former Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Justice Mustapha Akanbi, has blamed the problems facing Nigerians on politicians. Akanbi spoke in Lagos yesterday as the chairman of the ninth Annual Lecture organised by AELEX Law Firm. At the well-attended lecture with the theme; “In God’s Name: Politics, Religion and…
Senate ready to take over Rivers Assembly
The Senate yesterday backed the action of the House of Representatives by taking over the functions and duties of the crisis-ridden Rivers State House of Assembly. The action of the Senate is in line with the provisions of Section 11 (4) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution as amended. The Senate also urged the Inspector-General of…