From the monthly archives: November 2010

Court orders EFCC to return ex-Afribank MD’s int’l passport

On November 29, 2010 · In News

A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, yesterday, ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to release the international passport of former Managing Director of Afribank Plc, Sebastine Adigwe, alongside six others, who are facing charges of financial impropriety preferred against them by the EFCC.

Full Story →

SON seals off warehouses over fake cables

On November 29, 2010 · In News

Officials of Standards Organisa-tions of Nigeria, SON, have sealed-off two warehouses located at Oshodi main market for marketing wires and cables worth N400 million suspected to be fake.

Full Story →

Lagos FA immortalises Ilerika

On November 29, 2010 · In Sports

One of the best footballers to come out of Lagos in the early nineteen seventies, late Haruna Ilerika has been remembered and honoured by the Lagos state football Association. In demonstration of this, the state FA is floating the Haruna Ilerika U-13 5-a-side football tournament beginning today at the Omolade Okoya Thomas multipurpose Indoor Sports Hall.

Full Story →

Africans ‘scare’ Europeans out of Obudu

On November 29, 2010 · In Sports

European participation in the Obudu Mountain race was limited to one appearance at the 2010 edition, which Ethiopians Abebe Dinkesa and Meselech Haileyesus won and smiled home with the 50, 000 dollar top prize in the men and women category.
The absence of European runners was clearly noticeable and the president of the World

Full Story →

NDLEA goes tough on drug barons

On November 29, 2010 · In Crime Alert

Recently, drug barons ambushed security operatives, including NDLEA officers in their hideout at Owo, Ondo State. Reports said eight of the operatives were sprayed with bullets and were rushed to a private hospital at the State Capital.

Full Story →

EFCC boss warns car dealers, others against money laundering

On November 29, 2010 · In Crime Alert

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, has warned operators of Self Regulatory Organizations ( SROs) such as hotel owners, car dealers, casino operators, lawyers, real estate operators, tax consultants among others, who are part of the Designated Non- Financial Institutions, DNFIs to resist attempts by corrupt individuals to use them in laundering proceeds of financial crimes.

Full Story →

Father accused me of witchcraft, bathed me with acid

On November 29, 2010 · In Metro

Her name is Comfort Sunday, but she is presently in dire need of comfort. Indeed hers is the heart-rending story of a young girl who was declared a witch and member of a secret cult by some members of her family.

Full Story →

Her father believes she’s a witch and must die

On November 29, 2010 · In Metro

Tashi N Tashi is the Executive Director, Programmes, Better Leven, an NGO based in Akwanga, Akwanga Local Government of Nasarawa State. Akwanga is about 100km, North East of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.

Full Story →

Pregnant woman, son & 2 others killed in Bayelsa inferno

On November 29, 2010 · In Headlines, News

It was all tears Monday at the Onopa suburb of Yenagoa the Bayelsa State when the charred remains of a pregnant woman and her three year old son were evacuated from the scene of Sunday night inferno in which two other persons reportedly from injuries sustained at the hospital.

Full Story →

Forex inflow falls by 11% in October , CBN

On November 29, 2010 · In Finance

Foreign exchange inflow into the economy fell by 11.85 per cent to $2.38 billion in October, said the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
Meanwhile, the Naira further depreciated on last week as foreign exchange demand more that doubled at the official foreign exchange auction.

Full Story →

Nigerian Idol, courtesy Etisalat hits airwave

On November 29, 2010 · In Finance

After months of of work behind the scene, Etisalat Nigeria ’s sponsored Nigerian Idol is set to hit the airwaves. Television and entertainment viewers are in for a time of fun and thrills as the broadcast of the Nigerian Idol on selected television stations across the country commences this month.

Full Story →

Vision 2020: FG to give priority to development of vocational skills

On November 29, 2010 · In Finance

THE Federal government said yesterday that if the country must achieve its set goal of becoming one of the top world twenty largest economies, priority must be given to the development of technical and vocational skills across the country. According to the government, it was against this backdrop that it was prepared to pay serious attention to the development of technical and vocation skills as that would help boost employment generation and poverty reduction across the country

Full Story →

Niger Delta elders at war: Clark, Otobo in war of words

On November 29, 2010 · In News

TWO great leaders of Delta State, Deputy Premier of the defunct Midwest region, Chief James Otobo, and former Federal Minister of Information, Chief Edwin Clark, fell out, yesterday, over the propriety of the course each of them had decided to chart with their separate groups in the state.

Full Story →

Enahoro recovers, leaves hospital

On November 29, 2010 · In News

TWENTY-FOUR days after he was rushed to the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, UBTH, frontline nationalist and elder statesman, Chief Anthony Enahoro has recovered and has been discharged.

Full Story →