BREAKING NEWS:60 killed, Dozens Injured In Luxurious Bus Explosion In Kano

Kano State has been thrown into pandemonium as a bomb just went off at New Road, Sabon Gari area of the city.

A witness told PREMIUM TIMES that the bomb exploded at the hub of a commercial Luxury Bus park usually filled with commuters going from Kano to the South.

Kano Drug Dealers Sleep Overnight To Protest Evacuation

Members of the Nigeria association of Medicine dealers  (NAPMED) Kano on Saturday slept in the market in a bid to defy a 24 hour ultimatum issued by the state government to t evacuate the premises.

The Sabon Gari drug sellers in Kano, protested the government’s decision to boot them out of the market.

Jumia Offers Shopping Discounts To TechLoy Readers [GRAB CODE]

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Following the success of its recently concluded competition tagged ‘Scream Jumia’ which saw a winner emerge to win a $1,000 gift voucher, Jumia, Nigeria’s largest online retailer, is giving Techloy readers a shopping discount to shop on its site.

Obama to Restrict Visa to Nigerian Politicians Over Alams Pardon

There are strong indications that President Barrack Obama-led administration is set to slam visa restrictions on top Nigerian government officials in protest against the state pardon granted a convicted criminal, ex-Governor Dieprieye Alameiyeiseigha due to his closeness to President Goodluck Jonathan.

US believes that if no decisive action is taken, more high profile thieves will be pardoned so long as they are close to the President and his associates.

Celebrity birthdays Today; March 18, 2013

Dana Elaine Owens(aka Queen Latifah) and Vanessa Willam (Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives) Happy Birthday

Rumours On Demotion/Suspension of Lagos NSCDC Commandant Untrue

The rumour making the rounds that the commandant of the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corp in Lagos has been demoted or suspended in the aftermath of a now famous phrase is false.

The alleged visit by his wife to the headquarters of Channels Television to protest the upload of the interview where he failed to name his organisation’s website has been discredited as another wild tale.

Winnie Mandela ‘shocked’ at murder claims

Winnie Mandela - Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie was shocked to learn that South African prosecutors may probe her over the deaths of two anti-apartheid youths who went missing almost 25 years ago, one of her lawyers said Sunday.
Last week, the skeletons of what are believed to be the remains of Corlett “Lolo” Sono, 21, and Siboniso Anthony Shabalala, 19, were exhumed in a Soweto cemetery.

10 Houses Burnt, People Injured In Kwara Kingship Tussle

A violent demonstration erupted in Ganmo, Ifelodun local government area of Kwara state over an alleged plan of the state government to recognise and install a factional traditional ruler in the community.

There has been a dispute in the community over which ethnicity and local government the community belongs to, as one faction pledges affinity to Ilorin and the other to Igbomina in Ifelodun local government.

Basket Mouth Explains How He Met his Wife

How long have you known your wife and how did you meet her?

I’ve known her for about 10 years. When I met her the first time, she was doing shakara and when a girl does shakara for me, I love it. That is when I will even get more interested in her. She gave me a fake number and when I called, a guy picked up the phone and insulted me, and told me to never call him again. So I decided to go back to where I met her and went to the same spot for three nights until I saw her again and she gave me the right number. When I called her, she started giving me attitude. Out of anger one day when we were talking, I cut the call, deleted her number, cleared the call log and I now started looking for the number again (laughs). Then one day I bumped into her when her school was having a party. We started talking and that is how it began. She suffered me oh, so as her punishment, she must give me 8 children. But I love her so much and that is all that matters

Afrinolly Launches Entertainment App For Blackberry 10

African entertainment app MTN Afrinolly announced the release of its Blackberry 10 App for Blackberry Z10 and Q10 last Thursday at the Blackberry 10 official launch in Lagos, Nigeria a few weeks after just announcing the Afrinolly app for iOS. With over 2 million downloads across its various existing versions namely Android, Blackberry, Nokia Symbian, Nokia S40 Series, Java and Amazon Kindle, Afrinolly is the most downloaded African entertainment app built in Africa.

Sacked 1,444 Exxon-Mobil Workers Demand Terminal Benefits

Exxon-Mobil

About 1,444  Exxon-Mobil’s workers who were relieved of their jobs  have called on the company to pay them their agreed terminal benefits.

Addressing journalists in Abuja at the weekend, the workers also urged the National Assembly to intervene in efforts to persuade the company to pay them  their terminal benefits.

Impeachment saga: Oganihu Owerri strategises

OWERRI — A socio-cultural organisation, Oganihu Owerri, has concluded arrangements to hand out appropriate punishment on lawmakers from Owerri senatorial zone found to be playing roles in the current impeachment saga against the Deputy Governor, Sir Jude Agbaso.

The deputy governor had been accused of allegedly collecting N458 million from a contractor, JPROS International Limited, which eventually abandoned road project it was awarded.

The war against Rochas Okorocha

THE impetus for this essay rests on the contents  of the front-page news-story in the Daily Sun of Friday, March 8, 2013 entitled, “Imo: APGA unveils plot to sack Okorocha,   Speaker”. According to this news report, the ImoState chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has alleged a plot by the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sack the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and to distort the activities of the Imo State House of Assembly.

FG Confirms Suspension of Dana Airline’s Flights

Aviation Minister, Ms Stella Oduah

Aero issues sack letters to workers

The Federal Government Sunday confirmed the suspension of operations of Dana Air in line with the demand by the National Assembly over the shoddy handling of the compensation claims to victims of the airline’s crash, which resulted in the death of over 160 people on board the plane and on the ground, in June last year.

Much ado about state pardons

PREROGATIVE of mercy and state pardons are not new in politics and public administration. Since Nigeria gained independence in 1960, state pardon has been a powerful instrument used by the successive regimes and ruling cliques to manage relationships with their former friends who have become foes or their former foes who have either become friends or are no longer threats.

Property manager defrauds NSE of N190m

Operatives of the Special Fraud Unit Ikoyi have arrested a one-time property manager with the Nigerian Stock Exchange, Mr. Uche Ehiemere.

Prior to his arrest, Ehiemere collected rents from NSE's tenants at its building in Lagos with the mandate to retain five per cent of the proceeds as service charge and remit the balance to NSE's account.
The bubble burst for Ehiemere after about 13 years of service, when it was discovered during account reconciliation that he had fraudulently converted N190m.