• Calling Achebe the father of African literature is literary ignorance or momentary exuberance – Soyinka
• Hull City sacks Olofijana
• Tito Vilanova off to New York next week for cancer treatment
• NAMA cancels its planned closure of airspace
• Rooney’s future is not my business – Ferguson
• Herdsmen’s invasion: Benue communities seek marine surveillance
• Boko Haram owns anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns – Military
• “This was the worst season of my career” – Mourinho declares after Copa del Rey loss
• Emergency rule: National Assembly saved governors from sack
• Boko Haram members may face war crimes charges – United Nations

All posts by Rita Okoye

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  ‘Capture’ is an unfit lexicon in democracy – ACN tells Bamanga Tukur

  National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has described the statement by Bamanga Tukur, Chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, that come 2015, his party will “capture” 32 states in the country....

  • Posted April 22, 2013
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  Bus kills FRSC official at crash scene

  Few hours to the end of year 2012, a Federal Road Safety Corps officer, Olasoji Olaleye,was knocked off the road and killed on Sunday by a luxury bus while controlling traffic in a rescue operation, following an...

  • Posted December 31, 2012
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  Boxing Day murder: Prominent Ibo men go into hiding

  Following the recent murder of Dr. Ogbo Edoga, a United States-based financial expert, by unknown gunmen on Boxing Day in his country home, Aku, Igbo-Etiti LGA of Enugu State, prominent citizens of the State, especially returnees from...

  • Posted December 31, 2012
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  How we lost 109 members, 50 branches to Boko Haram – Abuja-based Cleric

  Rev. Daniel Mbaya of Ekklisiyar Yan’uwa ‘A’ Church of The Brethren in Nigeria, Utako, Abuja on Sunday said that 50 of their churches had been burnt and 109 members killed in the Northern part of the country...

  • Posted December 31, 2012
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  Stop insulting Jonathan on Facebook – Niger Delta group warns Nigerian youths

  A group, under the aegis of the Niger Delta Youth Initiative for Positive Change, has pleaded with Nigerian youth to stop using the social media platform to insult President Goodluck Jonathan. According to the group; the attitude...

  • Posted December 30, 2012
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  29-year-old robbery suspect narrowly escapes getting lynched for trying to evade arrest

  A 29-year-old robbery suspect, Godwin Ibe, narrowly escaped being lynched by an angry mob in the commercial city of Lagos Wednesday while attempting to evade arrest by a team of policemen on patrol on the LASU-Isheri Expressway....

  • Posted December 29, 2012
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  “We wanted to kill ourselves” – Couple laments death of five children in fire disaster

  The pains of death take time to heal, but for the family of Mr.& Mrs. Augustine Ikwuagwu whose five kids were wiped out in a late night inferno, the pain would forever remain fresh in their hearts....

  • Posted December 29, 2012
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  Wicked madam tears her maid’s private part with razor in Onitsha

  Police in Onitsha, Anambra state have arrested a middle-aged woman, identified as Uchenna for reportedly breaking her maid’s hand with a pestle and cutting her private part with a razor blade. The victim, identified as Chisom Nwafor...

  • Posted December 29, 2012
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  Suspected Fulani herdsmen invade Plateau State, kill four

  Suspected Fulani herdsmen yesterday raided Bachit village in Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing four persons with several others injured while trying to escape from the village during a late night invasion. It was gathered...

  • Posted December 28, 2012
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  Couple in police net over abduction of Rotimi’s wife

  Operatives of the Oyo State Police command have nabbed a couple in connection with the abduction of the wife of a former Military Governor of old Western region, Brig. Gen. Oluwole Rotimi (rtd). After intensive investigations, it...

  • Posted December 28, 2012
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• Road mishap claims nine lives in Osun State

  At least, nine persons were feared dead yesterday in a fatal road mishap, which occurred along Gbongan-Ife road, Osun State. The tragic incident, according to eyewitness occurred in front of the popular Gbongan High School when a...

  • Posted December 28, 2012
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  Nigerians should expect more flood – Commissioner

  The Delta State Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Antonia Ashiedu, has warned that the recent flooding that wrecked havoc across the country may likely occour again if no policy is set up by the Economic Community of...

  • Posted December 28, 2012
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  Gunmen murder US-based financial expert in Enugu

  Tragedy struck in Aku, Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area, Enugu State, Wednesday when a United States-based financial expert, Dr. Ogbo Edoga, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in his country home. DailyPost gathered that the assailants, numbering about...

  • Posted December 27, 2012
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  70-year-old blind woman burnt to death in Aba on Christmas day [PHOTO]

  The commercial city of Aba, Abia State was thrown into a heavy pandemonium on Christmas day following the mysterious death of an old blind woman in a fire outbreak. The incident, which occoured in Ogbor Hills, a...

  • Posted December 27, 2012
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  Oil bunkering: JTF arrests Police ASP in Calabar

  An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in Calabar, Cross River State capital has been arrested by the Joint Task Force (JTF) over an alleged oil bunkering. The outfit tagged: Operation Pulo Shield was established by the Federal...

  • Posted December 27, 2012
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  94 people die in 191 accidents within 5 days

  No fewer than 94 persons have lost their lives to different road mishaps that occoured across the country within 5 days of this year’s Christmas celebration, the Federal Road Safety Commission has said. According to Corps Marshall...

  • Posted December 26, 2012
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  We have forgiven Boko Haram – Kaduna Catholic Diocese

  The Bishop of Kaduna Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Ndagoso, yesterday said that the Church (Catholic) in the state had forgiven dreaded Islamist fundamentalist, Boko Haram, over the series of attacks on catholic churches in the state....

  • Posted December 26, 2012
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