Australian authorities have charged Mersane Warria, a woman in the northern city of Cairns with the murder of seven of her children and her niece. The 37-year old was charged while in hospital where she is being treated under guard for self-inflicted knife wounds, police say. Post-mortem examinations are being carried out to determine the…
ASUU chairman’s wife Abducted
Funmilayo Abiona, wife of the Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Osun State University chapter, Oluseye Abiona, was on Friday kidnapped by Gunmen in Osogbo.She was abducted on her way home from her shop around Oke Bale area of Osogbo.Abiona, who was said to be driving a Lexus car, was with her two children…
Two New York Policemen Shot Dead
A gunman has shot dead Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramos, two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself in a subway station. The officers were on duty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn when they were shot on Saturday. Bill Bratton, commissioner of the New York police department, said…
Agbaje Wants INEC To Repeat PVC Exercise In Lagos
Jimi Agbaje, PDP governorship candidate in Lagos State, on Saturday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to repeat the Permanent Voters Card, PVC registration exercise in Lagos. Agbaje made the appeal at an endorsement rally put together by Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Support Group to canvass for President Jonathan and Agbaje at the 2015 polls.…
Eko DISCO Procures 40 New Transformers
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company has acquired 40 new distribution transformers as part of efforts to boost the company’s operations during the yuletide. Ademola Adegoke, principal manager, Public Affairs Division of the EKEDC disclosed this in a statement issued on Saturday. Oladele Amoda, EKEDC Managing Director put the cost of acquisition and installation of the…
APC Berates Dankwambo Over Attack On Party
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described as “despicable and barbaric,” the removal of its party posters and billboards in Gombe State allegedly on the orders of the state governor, Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo. It was reported that during his visit to Kashere, the hometown of Danjuma Goje, a serving Senator and political rival on Thursday,…
PVC: Twins Allege Discrimination
A group of identical twins and other people of multiple births in the country have called on President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene by stopping what they described as “the mass discrimination against them by the Independent National Electoral Commission’s biometric system.” The group said at least 1,000 sets of identical twins in the country have…
UPN Picks Female Presidential Candidate
The Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN, has picked a female motivational speaker, Helen Godswill, from Delta State, as its Presidential candidate for the 2015 general elections. Abdulrasheed Gusau from Zamfara State was chosen as her running mate. The party, which also released a list of 13 governorship candidates for the election with a promise to…
Pakistani School Attack: Woman, Four Others Arrested
Four suspects, including a woman, were arrested from southern Punjab’s Hasilpur area in connection with Tuesday’s carnage in Peshawar that claimed the lives of more than 140 people. The four were tracked through a mobile SIM, which was reportedly used by terrorists during the attack on the military-run Army Public School. The SIM was registered…
Pakistan To Hang Convicted Militants
Prison authorities in Pakistan are set to hang convicted terrorists after the government lifted a six-year moratorium on executions, officials said. The decision follows the massacre of 135 school children and 12 others by Taliban gunmen at an army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday. Army Chief, Gen. Raheel Sharif signed the…
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