The National Emergency Management Agency,NEMA,has announced that a total of 8,046 people were affected by fire and wind storm disasters between January and February 2015 in three South West states. According to a statement released by the agency on Sunday, Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun states recorded the figures in seven major incidents. Ibrahim Farinloye, NEMA…
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Get Death, Life Sentences
An Egyptian court has sentenced four members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation to death while 14 others were handed life imprisonment. Brotherhood Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie and his deputy Khairat al-Shater were among those sentenced to life imprisonment on Saturday, along with former lawmaker, Mohamed el-Beltagy and party head Saad el-Katatni and his deputy,…
PDP Queries Jega’s Relationship with APC
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has expressed concern over what it described as sudden affection between the All Progressives Congress, APC and Attahiru Jega, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in recent time. The APC’s huge interest in Jega’s stay in office ahead of the March 28 and April 11 general elections was…
Dariye Ordered To Face Corruption Trial
The Supreme Court has ordered Joshua Dariye, former Plateau State governor, to submit himself for trial on corruption and money laundering charges before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The order came eight years after Dariye was first arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The apex court, in a unanimous…
Jega’s Sack, A Recipe for Disaster- Northern Elders Forum
As the alleged plot by the presidency to sack Attahiru Jega,the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, thickens,the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has warned that such move will be a ”recipe for disaster.” Ango Abdullahi, spokesperson for the group, who stated this during a press conference on Friday, said “any attempt at this last…
Boko Haram: Nigerian Army Recapture More Communities
Three weeks after the recapture of Baga and Monguno, the Nigerian armed forces, on Friday, recaptured two more communities from Boko Haram militants in the North Eastern part of Nigeria after intense fighting. According to the Defence Headquarters, government troops on Friday, flushed out Boko Haram terrorists from Gulag, Madagali Local Government Area in Adamawa…
Why Obanikoro May Not Be Reappointed
For Musiliu Obanikoro, former minister of Defence, returning as a Minister in the President Goodluck Jonathan administration may be a really tough task. This is because eighteen (18) senators of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday opposed his nomination by the president for a ministerial position. The lawmakers cited Obanikoro’s alleged involvement in the…
LASU Appoints Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor
The Lagos State University, LASU, on Friday, announced the appointment of Senapon Bakre as acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics of the institution after the expiration of her tenure as substantive DVC Academics in February. This was disclosed in the university’s official bulletin. The bulletin said the appointment took effect from February 14 and would run till…
New Drug To Improve HIV Pediatric Care
Medicines Patent Pool, MPP and MERCK, on Friday, announced a licence with MSD, in the United States, for pediatric formulations of raltegravir medicine approved for the use of children, four weeks of age and older, living with HIV. With the new licence, generic manufacturers and companies based anywhere in the world can develop, manufacture and…
US-Bangladesh Blogger Hacked To Death
A popular U.S-Bangladeshi blogger, Avijit Roy, was hacked to death by a knife-wielding mob on Thursday. His writing on religion had brought threats from Islamist hardliners. Roy, an atheist who advocated secularism, was attacked in Dhaka as he walked back from a book fair with his wife, who was hurt in the attack. The Bangladesh…
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