Man Sentenced To Death For Stealing Jeep
A high court sitting in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, has sentenced a middle-aged man, Tersoo Terna, to death by hanging for stealing a Toyota Hilux Jeep belonging to a clergyman. Justice Adam Onum, on Thursday, convicted Terna for criminal conspiracy and armed robbery. The suspect, according to the state prosecuting counsel, Mrs. Jean Abba [...]
Read More →Senate passes Anti-Terrorism Bill – Daily Independent
Barely 24 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan wrote to the Senate begging the lawmakers to pass the Anti-Terrorism Bill, the Upper Chamber on Thursday responded by passing the Bill into law. It came just as House of Representatives Speaker, Dimeji Bankole, assured Nigerians that the Lower Chamber of the National Assembly will also ensure that [...]
Read More →P’Harcout tragedy: Jonathan orders retraining of security personnel – Daily Independent
President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday ordered a special training of security forces in the country on proper crowd control and management. The Presidential order is a direct response to the recent loss of lives in a stampede at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) South South zonal Presidential campaign flag-off in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Minister [...]
Read More →Union Bank counts losses as Labour goes tough on branches – Daily Independent
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its civil society allies on Wednesday resumed mass action and picketing of Union Bank Plc offices, leading to a paralysis of banking transactions in its branches across the country. NLC is protesting against the decision of the bank’s management to withdraw recognition to its affiliate, Association of Senior Staff of [...]
Read More →Appeal Court reinstates Ebebi, impeached Bayelsa Deputy Gov – Daily Independent
Appeal Court sitting in Port Harcourt on Wednesday reinstated impeached Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State, Peremobowei Ebebi, after many months of legal battle to regain his position. Ebebi had gone to court to seek legal redress after he had been purportedly impeached by the Bayelsa State House of Assembly in June 2010. He claimed the [...]
Read More →Echoes of change may consume Nigeria – Ribadu – Daily Independent
Latching on the current of revolutions sweeping across Arab countries in North Africa, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, warned in Abuja on Wednesday that “if we fail to urgently realise the vision of a modern Nigeria, the echoes of currently muted, but potentially destabilising, change will soon consume our land”. He [...]
Read More →Witnesses blame President’s security, A’Ibom politician – Daily Independent
It is beginning to emerge that last Saturday’s stampede that led to the death of about 11 persons at the Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt was caused by an overzealous politician and security men who accompanied President Goodluck Jonathan from Abuja. At the Presidential Panel investigating the incident on Tuesday in Port Harcourt, a number [...]
Read More →INEC begins display of voter register today – Daily Independent
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) begins today the display of the voter register in all the 120,000 polling units nationwide. It will be displayed between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day until February 18, according to INEC Secretary Abdulahi Kaugama. Kaugama said during the period any person who is qualified for registration as [...]
Read More →Learn from Egyptian revolution, Buhari urges Nigerians – Daily Independent
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has urged Nigerians to draw lessons from the 18-day peaceful revolution which saw Hosni Mubarak quit as Egyptian President last Friday and effect a regime change in Nigeria using the ballot box in April. The pro-democracy campaigners defied all odds to achieve their goal of terminating [...]
Read More →NLC, Union Bank in war of words, Labour to picket branches Monday – Daily Independent
The war of words between leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and management of the Union Bank of Nigeria plc is turning messier as Group Managing Director of the bank, Funke Osibodu, threatened to do everything to demystify the workers’ union. NLC is planning to picket the bank’s branches across the country from Monday. [...]
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