Onitsha boils
... As policeman kills bus driver over N20 bribe
•Obi sues for calm, peace
From EMMANUEL UZOR, Onitsha
Friday February 10, 2012

There was tension in Onitsha, Anambra State, yesterday when a commercial bus driver was shot and killed by a policeman over his alleged refusal to pay a N20 bribe.  | Read more

Dantata’s remains expected today
From ISMAIL OMPIDAN, Kaduna
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Remains of the late renowned businessman and chairman of construction giant, Dantata and Sawoe, Alhaji Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata, are expected to be flown home today for burial. Dantata died in a German hospital on Tuesday,at the age of 66.. | Read more

• Ribadu bounces back, heads task force on petroleum revenue
• No going back on Bayelsa guber poll –INEC
• Committee submits report on Boko Haram attack in Kano
• Boko Haram: Adazi 12 buried amidst wailing and agitations
• Retirement gale hits police
• Igbo must leave North now –Elders
• Boko Haram threatens Jonathan
• Bomb blast at luxury bus park: 2 injured
• PDP may expel Sylva
• Why soldiers killed our men –MASSOB
• Boko Haram suspect’s escape latest:
  FG probes Ringim
• Ojukwu’s burial may be moved to March 1
• Subsidy scam: Senate reads riot act to EFCC
• Fuel subsidy scam: EFCC raids PPPRA
• It’s siddon look in South East
• Stop destroying govt properties, Lagos govt warns protesters
• 10-point plan for resolving current dispute over fuel subsidy removal
• Catholic Bishop leads protest in Ekiti, as protesters defy police order
• Boko Haram: Emir of Suleja indicted, queried
• IBB suggests political solution to subsidy crisis
• We’re ready for Boko Haram -Dokubo-Asari
• Presidential polls: S’Court decides Jonathan’s fate today
• FCT: Presidency probes N147bn Kubwa Expressway expansion contract
• We must build blocks of unity –Tambuwal
• Zoning: PDP members accuse NWC of sabotage
• My wife was in hospital for 7 months – Quintuplets’ dad
• Boko Haram: Ndume gets tough bail conditions
• Judicial reform: Committee members divided over thorny issues
• Boat mishap claims 4, 30 others missing
• 2012 budget: Fulfill your budget promises, Mark tells Jonathan
• Scrap NNPC now – Gov Aliyu
• Pirates kill 3 policemen in Bayelsa
• Boko Haram spokesman bags 3 years jail
• Jonathan fires sports minister
• Jonathan stops swearing-in of ICPC chairman
• BPE probe: Senators demand Obasanjo’s prosecution
• S’ East govs declare 7-day mourning
• Borno PDP denies link with Boko Haram
• Bayelsa guber primary: Don’t be intimidated, Jonathan tells PDP
• Jonathan commends bank reforms
• Ugbah, Akpanudoedehe win at S’Court
• Tension in Imo as tribunal decides Okorocha, Ohakim’s fate today
• Bayelsa list: Sylva loses again
• No outsider can stop an Igbo as President in 2015 –Ezeife
• Fuel subsidy gulped N3.7trn in 5 years – PPPRA
• Gombe deputy governor dies
• Banana hawker rescued from ritualist’s deep freezer
• PDP NWC disqualifies Sylva
• Islamic cleric killed in Borno
• PDP appeal panel screens out Sylva, Alaibe, Murray-Bruce
• 27 states face bankruptcy
• Fuel subsidy removal: FG explores 3 options
• Why we killed NTA journalist –Boko Haram
• N38b scam: Bankole, Nafada lose bid to halt trial
• N1.3bn fraud: EFCC arraigns Fayose
• Only revolution ‘ll save Nigeria –Oshiomhole
• N24 billion fraud
• Court grants Daniel bail
• Finally, Senate probes N1.5tr oil subsidy
• October 1 blasts: SSS arrests bomb maker, gunrunner, banker
• EFCC fails to arraign Daniel, Akala, Doma
• Why FG encourages private varsities –Sambo
• Nigeria will be better if we shoot some people – Junaid Mohammed
• Robbers storm Kalu’s house, kill one, cart away N2m
• Secret letter: Obasanjo denies writing Jonathan
• Boko Haram gives condition for dialogue
• Court remands 6 Boko Haram suspects in SSS custody
• Tribunal sacks 10 CPC N’Assembly members
• Jonathan vows to fix public institutions
• Nigeria’s Golden Book: A bold initiative – Anyim
• World class scam: Man fools, swindles 7,000 Nigerians over Canadian visa
• Stampede over bomb scare at N’Assembly
• Labour declares war over fuel price hike
• I’ve never seen $13.5m in my life, says Patience Jonathan
• Ondo PDP chieftains exchange blows at reconciliatory meeting
• Single tenure: My story, by Jonathan
• Again, 12 killed in Plateau
• Obasanjo mismanaged economy, IBB insists
• N7bn scam: EFCC frees Lagos speaker, seizes passport
• Salami: PDP petitions against MTN
• MASSOB raises alarm over plot to bomb S’East Economic Summit
• Unmask Boko Haram now –Buhari tells Jonathan
• I’m devastated
• Mikel’s dad: 2 soldiers, 6 others arrested
• Ghadafi’s whereabouts unknown
• NJC suspends Salami
• No dollar salary for ministers –Jonathan
• Okonjo-Iweala to be sworn in today
• Privatisation: Probe OBJ now –Col. Umar
• Akunyili–Ngige contest not over
• Ojukwu is alive –London hospital
• Sale of privatised firms
• He’s not a liar –Tsav
• NDLEA uncovers cocaine in milk cans
• Robbers kill 2 cops, hijack bullion van in Nsukka
• Ngige tackles Akume over minority leader’s post
• Boko Haram bombs Customs House
• Another bloody Army, Police’s clash averted in Lagos
• Bombings: Ringim can’t fight Boko Haram –PEF chief, Kenny Martins
• Okah’s trial begins 2012
• PDP chair: Northern govs settle for Bamanga Tukur
• Lagos grinds to halt as floods take over roads
• Ojukwu leaves London hospital – Bianca
• Kalu, bankers mourn Aderinokun
• Boko Haram gives conditions for ceasefire
• Sunmonu emerges Oyo first female Speaker
• EFCC files charges against Bankole today
• CONFESSION OF AN ASSASSIN
• Boko Haram’s hit list
• I’ll shout if Jonathan fails on promises to Igbo — Gov Obi
• Zoning: S’East PDP rejects SGF slot
• Ballot box found inside bush in Abia
• Zoning: IBB accuses PDP leaders of double-speak
• Osama planned to kill Obama
• JTF, militants in gun battle
• N’Assembly: Ohaneze insists on speaker
• Power sharing: South-East loses speaker position
• CBN’ll sell all rescued banks –Sanusi
• Abia guber: Apeal court grants accelerated hearing against Orji
• Supplementary election: 4 RECs sent to Imo
• …He must apologise to Christians -PFN
• Imo boils over guber election stalemate
• INEC drafts students to conduct polls in Bauchi, Kaduna today
• Presidential poll: It is not over yet, says Bakare
• ‘Buhari can still be president in 2015’
• 11 Corps members killed in Bauchi, females raped
• Presidential election: 20 killed in Bauchi, Gombe
• Elect credible leaders, Jonathan tells South-West youths
• OBJ, daughter, Daniel lose wards
• How PDP plans to rig National Assembly poll
• Ojukwu returns soon
• Recapitalisation: Controversy over planned sale of Afribank
• OGD exposes OBJ
• SSS pledges support for INEC
• Aregbesola raises alarm over plans to sack him
• Council of State approves deployment of troops 48 hours to election
• I’m ready to die for Nigeria –Obasanjo
• Fashola in Ajegunle, urges massive votes for ACN
• Our deal with Jonathan –Chime
• Police bust INEC racket, 10 top officials quizzed
• Ojukwu can’t talk, write – Son
• Supreme Court returns 86 oil wells to Rivers
• Bomb scare at P’Harcourt airport
• Tenure elongation: Election must hold in Delta -Court rules
• OBJ pleads for Daniel
• OGD begs Obj
• Mark after my life –Onoja
• Lagos, no-go area for PDP, says Niger Gov Babangida Aliyu
• ‘World’ baby factory in Okigwe
• 2011 polls: IBB, Buhari team up to capture northern votes
• I didn’t think Ojukwu would survive –UK doctor
• ACN shocks PDP with counter rally in Lagos
• Abia guber: Court clears Orji as PDP candidate
• Oshiomhole, Ajibola, bank CEOs, others grace award
• Family war: Ciroma’s wife tackles husband
• ACN explains Adeola’s choice as Ribadu’s running mate
• April polls: 150 cases against INEC
• ACN tips Adeola, Ebi as Ribabu’s running mate
• Confusion in Bayelsa as A’Court quashes Ebebi’s impeachment
• Chime bounces back
• Ribadu denies rift with Tinubu
• JTF stealing oil in Niger Delta –Gesthuizen, Dutch MP
• Jonathan approves N31b for 9 power projects
• Ojukwu is alive -Bianca
• INEC removes Chime’s name from list
• ‘Elevation’ of Justice Salami: It is punishment –Akanbi
• Daniel declares war on Obj
• 218 killed in 12 attacks in Jos
• Boko Haram: We killed Gubio, Gov’s brother
• Unemployment: Tunisia, Egypt experience possible in Nigeria, NLC warns FG
• 20,000 protesting women storm Plateau Gov’s office
• How I was rigged out —Atiku
• Jonathan: ACF hijacked
• 2011: ACN, CPC deal on hold over fusion
• Akpama Huntas, Mr Power Bike: Lagos to Owerri takes five hours
• Anenih takes charge of PDP
• ANPP members in govt defy party’s quit order
• INEC querries manufacturers over malfunctuning DDC machines
• Atiku killed zoning –Kanti-Bello
• Factors that influenced ACN Ribadu’s choice as candidate
• Lagos: 26 parties move against Fashola
• Smooth sail for Yuguda, Shema, Wamakko Dakingari as Orji, Shinkafi emerge amid confusion
• Chime may dump PDP
• FIGHT TO FINISH
• Operation Delta storm
• Côte D’ Ivoire: Military option still on card –ECOWAS
• Delta rerun: Why we endorsed Uduaghan –LP
• Death rumour: What Ojukwu told me –Obi
• Explosion rocks guber aspirant’s campaign rally
• Jos: Fish out the killers, Sultan, Ortisejafor tell FG
• INEC fixes January 6 for Delta guber election rerun
• Senate approves $1.53bn loan for FG
• 2011: More ministers to resign
• Day Clara Oshiomhole barred her protocol officers from using siren, large convoy
• Akunyili resigns, dumps PDP
• Drama as PDP NEC ends abruptly
• Kaduna Gov ill, flown abroad
• IBB replies Jonathan
• Wikileaks revelations sexed up – Presidency
• 2011: Plot to replace Jonathan with Sambo thickens
• EFCC detains Halliburton MD
• Aba kidnap: Anxiety over whereabouts of LG boss
• Aregbe freezes Osun accounts
• How PDP took over the South West
• Igbo president in 2015? Forget it!—Onuma, Ohanaeze chieftain
• ‘Gen.’ Togo dares FG
• Vote IBB, vote tragedy –Hafsat, MKO’s daughter
• Customs impounds another deadly shipment from Iran
• Maryam Babangida’s mum dies in Cairo
• Northern govs‘ll dump Jonathan
• JTF raids MEND camp, arrests five
• I’ll be back–Uduaghan
• Workers down tools today
• MEND threatens to resume hostilities
• Minimum wage: Labour, govt talks deadlocked
• PDP chieftain kidnapped, murdered in Rivers
• SEC takes Ebong, Ololo, Odimegwu, 33 others to tribunal
• Profile of assault weapons
• Trouble for PDP
• Minimum wage: Labour gives FG 14-day ultimatum
• I support Jonathan!
• I’m IBB’s in-law, Jonathan is my friend
• Angry youths stone Gov Sylva
• Judge threatens to grant Okah bail
• We’ll end power sector problem in 5 years –Jonathan
• You are rude
• Inside Cecilia Ibru’s cell
• Senate brings back guber election tribunal
• oko Haram returns, sets police station ablaze
• I’ll canvass for the North—Lam Adesina, ex-Oyo gov
• Don’t expect miracle from INEC – Guobadia
• I’m sterile and she’s a prostitute–Runaway lover boy
• Voters’ registration: INEC to recruit 24,222 ad-hoc staff in Kano
• I can whip IBB, Jonathan, says Okotie
• 2011: ANPP woos IBB, Buhari
• ‘My German Embassy lover impregnated me and fled’
• CBN revokes licences of 224 microfinance banks
• Assault on Nigerians, say Soyinka, Bakare
• No equity until Ndigbo get to Aso Villa –Kalu
• IBB has sinned –Hassan Kotangora
• Ojukwu, IBB to meet
• Ibadan boils: 12 buses burnt , 83 others vandalized
• They’re killing us, wife says in desperate phone call
• Nigeria to sell $500m global bond by November
• I swallowed 30 wraps of cocaine – Mental home worker
• IBB, Atiku’s gameplan
• Atiku, Ribadu unite for Abiola
• Panic in Bayelsa
• Don’t shift polls, US warns INEC
• ASP to die by hanging
• Jonathan, Obi fence Onitsha army barracks
• 2011: Igbo summit endorses Jonathan
• Adeboye spits fire: We’ll resist rigging in 2011
• PDP denies Atiku waiver
• FEC approves N21bn for 3 new presidential jets
• Senate approves N87.7bn for INEC
• Death rumour: I dey kampe, says OBJ
• FG woos MEND
• Ataoja passes on at 75
• We won’t send amended constitution to Jonathan, Reps insist
• Voters’ register: Give INEC N74bn
• Abia lawmakers impeach Dep Gov 48 hours after resignation
• Abia Deputy Governor resigns
• Senate passes harmonised Electoral Act
• Time is running out –Jega
• 2011: Jega, Anenih hold talks
• Abuja land trial: Ribadu, 500 women storm court for el-Rufai
• I’m for zoning–Jemibewon
• PDP leadership in Umuahia to woo Gov Orji
• PDP worse than kidnappers, says Buhari
• Ransom war
• Over $10bn freighted from Nigeria monthly –Ribadu
• IBB wants to set me up, Daboh cries out
• 2011 Presidential
• Kidnapped journalists
• 3 Govs back Jonathan for 2011 presidency
• NNPC is bankrupt –Babalola
• Why I returned to PDP, by Kalu
• NUJ Chairman, 4 others kidnapped
• Furious ex-militants
• Impeachment: Appeal Court orders parties to maintain status-quo, as new dep. gov takes oath
• Ex-militants invade Abuja
• Jonathan cautions Army against ethnic, religious bigotry
• 011: You’ll ruin Jonathan, David West tells Clark, Horsfall
• FG deploys soldiers in ex-militants’ camp
• Senators kick against N10bn budget for 50th anniversary
• INEC: Jega takes over, pledges to meet expectations
• Dawn inferno guts The Sun, hundreds of millions lost
• Confusion in Bauchi: Reinstated Dep gov. risks arrest
• We’ve ‘closed the taps’ in Union Bank
• Soldiers take over
• House crisis: Police arraign lawmaker for injuring colleague
• INEC: Jonathan drops Mamman, Anka as INEC commissioners
• It’s a house of scandals, Waziri slams Reps
• Zoning: Anenih backs President
• No, Jonathan must not run – Tsav
• 2011: Jonathan, be fair –Kabiru Gaya, ex-Kano gov
• Bankole: Melaye’s group tenders contract documents
• Constitution review: N’ Assembly presents reviewed bill to state Speakers
• Nigeria requires N32trn for Vision 20:2020 –FG
• NLC tackles Sanusi over call for petroleum subsidy removal
• Deji’s only option is suicide – Chief Alex Akinyele
• Why we dethroned Deji – Ondo govt
• MTN Nigeria gets N318bn bank loan for expansion
• PDP chairmanship: Big hurdle for Nwodo
• Nail me if you can, Ribadu dares critics
• We made Gbenga Daniel – Tinubu
• CBN in the last one year
• Why I didn’t sack service chiefs –Jonathan
• Beware of Daboh, group warns Jonathan
• Money laundering: London court convicts Ibori’s sister
• Goni to Jonathan Be wise
• The Sun reporter wins CNN African journalist award
• Fashola dares True Face of Lagos
• Power rotation different from zoning –Senator Amange
• As Mark assures on electoral reform act
• 2011: I’ll contest for presidency –Kalu
• Fuel fire kills pregnant woman, 20 vehicles in Lagos
• Don’t appoint politician as INEC boss, Oshiomhole advises Jonathan
• Confusion in Kaduna over Dep. Gov.
• Obasanjo’ll ruin Jonathan – Balarabe Musa
• $12b oil windfall: Mixed reactions trail expected IBB probe
• Yakowa sworn in as Kaduna gov, says, ‘ I am not a Christian governor’
• Sambo sworn-in, receives GCON award
• Family of 5 perish in auto-crash
• 2011: Don’t appoint INEC chairman if ... –Jonathan warned
• ANPP meeting: Ume-Ezeoke survives removal plot
• Ritual Church!
• Time ticks for Ogbulafor
• New VP: The governors’ game plan
• Anambra election tribunal: Ngige wins round one
• Dokubo-Asari explodes
• Jonathan visits Yar’Adua’s family today
• Yayale Ahmed may emerge VP
• El-Rufai quizzed: EFCC grants him administrative bail
• 2011: IBB, a disgrace to Nigeria –Bishops
• Babatope, Igbinedion, others escape death
• Yerima adamant
• Bode George has no reputation – Court
• Uwazuruike: MASSOB shut down Owerri
• 2011 Presidency: Don’t run, David-West warns Jonathan
• N5.8bn debt: Court freezes Zenon’s accounts in 10 banks
• Ibori ’ll soon be arrested –Police
• Atiku barred
• 2 killed as inmates revolt over Rev King in Kaduna Prison
• 2011 Presidency: Gusau will run campaign – Group
• Taking Yar’Adua abroad for treatment was a big mistake
• Militants guard Ibori
• Atiku, IBB in war of words
• Shake-up imminent in EFCC – Jonathan
• Jonathan on CNN: Unfolds 3-point agenda
• Ribadu:We’ll be guided by public opinion – AGF
• Spring Bank springs back
• 2011 presidency
• Jonathan assures US of Iwu’s sack ahead visit
• OBJ picks Shagari as Jonathan’s VP
• Iwu explodes
• Sale of assets: Ribadu lied – EFCC
• Jonathan swears in ministers-designate today
• Fresh tension in Jos
• Jonathan orders transfer of soldiers in Aso Rock
• Woman conceals drugs in private part
• Jonathan orders probe
• Jos massacre: GOC, police commissioner to appear in court
• Buhari, Shekarau in secret talks
• Gaddafi again!
• Why they’re after me –Gov Sylva
• God’ll stop IBB – Jokolo
• EFCC declares Bayelsa finance commissioner wanted
• Mega party in disarray over Buhari’s ambition
• 400 ex-militants protest in Benin
• ‘I watched my daughter die in pains’
• Obasanjo angry with Jonathan
• 43 pupils perish in auto crash
• Fresh plot against Jonathan
• Gaddafi is mad –Mark
• •••Libyan leader ignorant
• Rig, face fire, Jonathan warns
• Tribunal dismisses Okoye’s application to stop Obi’s inauguration
• Soyinka, Falana want EFCC boss removed –Waku
• Jonathan meets Obama
• Bomb scare rocks Edo again
• Jos crisis: Why we struck –Fulani Settlers
• Yar’Adua must go –SNG
• Stray bullets kill 2 in Jos
• Alleged N100bn fraud: Ex-Bank MD, others challenge charges
• Lagos-Ore Highway tragedy
• BROTHER FROM HELL!
• You have no excuse to fail, Mark to Jonathan
• Buhari was right to leave ANPPP –Party boss
• Act now or you may lose goodwill, Danjuma tells Jonathan
• Anambra guber: Ojukwu satisfied with outcome
• Bomb scare at Edo Assembly
• South African bank moves to acquire Intercontinental
• Akunyili again
• How Gov Ohakim flogged me —Iwuoha, social critic
• They want to kill Jonathan – S/South elders
• The inside story of how Yar’Adua was smuggled in
• 2011: Ex-US envoy, Warrington points way forward
• Bloodbath in Edo Assembly
• US probes two Nigerian pastors
• There is no cause for alarm – Fashola
• Anambra guber: Why Obi won – Iwu
• FEC sends 6-man delegation to S’Arabia
• NITEL sold again for $2.5bn
• Anambra poll: APGA confronts Soludo, Ngige
• SEC chairmanship controversy: My appointment in order
• Reps return without seeing Yar’Adua
• Akunyili rejects Aondoakaa’s explanation
• INEC declared Obi in error –Ngige, PDP
• Yar’Adua: Why Senate adopted bbc interview
• Militants seal NDDC office
• Ngige rejects result
• Yar’Adua: It’s all over
• Anambra: Politicians scramble to buy voters’ card electoral officers
• Court stops INEC from conducting elections
• Anambra election: IG storms Awka, reads riot act
• Ekwunife’s profile scares opponents
• Coup scare
• Anambra stands still for Ekwunife
• Oyinlola sacks cabinet
• Anambra polls: Kalu storms Awka for Ekwunife
• 9 political parties merge
• South West’s highway of assassinations
• Swear in Jonathan now, Gov. Aliyu tells PDP
• PDP tackles Obasanjo
• OGD hits Bankole:‘He’s a curse to Ogun’
• Sperm, female eggs now hawked in hospitals
• Jos: We’ll fish out, deal with culprits –VP Jonathan
• Senate rejects emergency rule in Plateau
• CBN fixes 10-yr tenure for bank CEOs
• EFCC takes over Cecilia Ibru’s multi billion naira assets
• Civil war looms — Lam Adesina
• Yar’Adua’s absence: Judge withdraws from Falana’s case
• 100,000 perish in Haiti
• …Husband saves wife trapped in rubble
• Save Nigeria Rally: Soyinka, Bakare, Sani others shut down Abuja
• I won’t force any bank to lend to anybody —- Sanusi CBN governor
• Soyinka, Ojukwu, Balarabe Musa,
• Yar’Adua: Why North’s afraid of Jonathan
• Why I can’t come home now –Ribadu
• Governors pay solidarity visit to Jonathan
• Produce Yar’Adua’s medical report –Falana challenges FEC
• Yar’Adua absence: No vacuum in Presidency –Rep
• Terror attack: Don’t criminalise Nigerians, Obasanjo tells US
• Supplementary budget: You risk life jail, lawyers tell Presidency...
• Anambra guber: Poll rates Soludo voters’ favourite
• Ribadu floors FG
• US plane bomb attempt: Northern elite, a disgrace – Major Umar
• U.S. wants Yemen to confront al Qaeda
• Farouk cut link with us –Mutallab family
• US plane bomb attack: Another Nigerian arrested
• Primate Ayodele’s 2010 shocker
• 2011: IBB favoured to succeed Yar’Adua
• Money laundering: EFCC appeals against Ibori’s victory
• Stop speculation on Yar’Adua –Northern group warns
• Anambra 2010: Okonkwo seeks to stop election
• Fashola : The new face of leadership
• Presidential poll saga:Supreme Court had all evidence to annul 2007 polls
• Vote in Obi as last respect to me– Ojukwu
• Anambra 2010: Soludo begins battle in S’Court today
• Bafarawa’s many troubles
• Interpol seeks extradition of Rubadu, El-Rufai
• Saudi doctors shift Yar’Adua’s return
• Ondo bye-election: Police arrest Senator, 3 Reps
• Yar’Adua:Drop sentiments, let’s follow the law
• Anambra guber: Soludo’s choice divine –Ogbulafor
• No going back on petroleum industry reform –FG
• Waiver Scam: CBN, banks approve outrageous waivers to recover bad loans
• Anambra mafia and I – Soludo
• His condition serious –Surgeon
• U-17 World Cup tragedy
• *See Archive