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YRD goes for medical check-up in Saudi

President Umaru Yar’Adua will travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical checks, his office said. “President Umaru Yar’Adua will leave Abuja today for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While there, the president will call on his personal physicians in … read more

EFCC sets new bank debtor deadline

Nigeria’s anti-corruption police on Monday gave defaulting debtors of nine bailed-out banks two weeks to organise repayments or risk arrest, prosecution and the seizure of their assets. Nigeria has injected around 600 billion naira ($4 billion) into the banking system … read more

Nigerian Pilgrim Dies of Swine Flu

A 17-year-old Nigerian girl and three other pilgrims died of swine flu soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Saudi health officials said yesterday while announcing the first deaths from swine flu in this year’s hajj. The Saudi Health Ministry said … read more

Gunmen kill 2 cops, kidnap 2 kids in PH

TWO Policemen were killed yesterday in Port Harcourt and two others sustained gun shot wounds during a fierce encounter between the Police and gunmen around Woji road area of the state capital. Also, two children were kidnapped on their way … read more

Kidnapped Serb escapes from captors

An employee of Belgrade’s Energoprojekt Dragan Stepanović, who was kidnapped in Nigeria, has managed to escape. He told the FoNet news agency that he was able to escape because his captors probably did not expect that He would know the … read more

No records for imported fuel

There are no records to account for this country’s massive but haphazard importation of petroleum products, according to an official survey carried out last week. The survey, carried out by a Federal Government team led by engineers from Telemetry Nigeria … read more

Child witches grip the world, again

A year ago, the world was taken aback when on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom a nerve-taking documentary entitled Saving Africa’s Witch Children was aired. The demeaning scenes of tortured and stigmatised children tore hearts apart, human rights organisation, … read more

Tribunal Orders Arrest of Ribadu

The Code of Conduct Tribunal yesterday in Abuja issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu for his failure to appear before it to take his plea. … read more