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Court restrains Army over Oghede community invasion

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
Tweet By SIMON EBEGBULEM BENIN CITY— A Benin High Court  has granted an interlocutory injunction restraining the Commander 322 Artillery Regiment of the Nigerian Army and three others from further invasion, demolition of buildings or forceful possession of lands belonging to Oghede community of Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state, pending ...

Robbers kill 4, cart away N28m in P/Harcourt

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
By Jimitota Onoyume PORT HARCOURT—A Police Corporal and a female staff of a supermarket in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were, yesterday, shot dead by armed robbers in Umurelu Street, close to Rumuola Road. ...

PSN members battle Aerocontractors over aborted flight

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
By Daniel Eteghe LAGOS— Aerocontractors was, Monday, locked in a battle of wit with members of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, following its inability to fly them to their destination. While the PSN members agitated for a refund of their money, the airline insisted on putting them in another flight to Enugu, where ...

Illegal bunkering: JTF nabs vessel, 2-man crew

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Joint Task Force, JTF, in the Niger Delta, codenamed Operation Restore Hope, has impounded a vessel, MT ZIA, carrying over 5,000 tons of illegally refined diesel in the Akassa waterway of Bayelsa State. ...

Fidelity/Dokpesi suit: Court to rule Nov 2

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
By Innocent Anaba LAGOS—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, Monday, adjourned till November 2, 2011 to rule on whether to stay proceedings in the suit by Fidelity Bank Plc against Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the owner of Daar Communications Limited, operators of Africa Independent Television, AIT,  and RayPower FM over an alleged N7billion debt. ...

President, Buhari know fate today

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal chaired by Justice Kummai Bayang Akaahs will today deliver judgment in the petition filed by the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) against President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the April 16 election. Notice of judgment was served yesterday on counsel after the Supreme Court struck out the appeal filed by ...

World population hits seven billion

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
GOING by the target set by demographers at the United Nations (UN) population unit, the world population hit a record seven billion yesterday. The division had set yesterday as the ‘symbolic’ date for humanity to ass another one billion people to the planet from 1999 ...


Collapse of varsity system imminent- ASUU

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
By Festus Ahon UGHELLI—DELTA State University chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the refusal of the proprietors of public universities across the country to implement the 2009 ASUU/FGN Memo-randum of Under-standing, MoU, may paralyse the university system. Briefing newsmen, state chapter chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Mordi, warned Federal and state governments ...

Rep: policy has eroded peoples’ confidence

On Monday, October 31st, 2011
A member of the House of Representatives, Kamil Akinlabi yesterday kicked against the planned removal of subsidy on petroleum products, saying the proposal has eroded people’s confidence in the government.  Akinlabi, who is the Chairman,  Committee on Youth Development, dismissed the existence of subsidy in the first place, while noting that hopes and aspirations ...