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News just reaching us is that there is bomb blast in Port Harcourt and one person has been confirmed death.
According to an eye witness, the commercial bus was calling passengers when the explosion went off from the bus. It was also confirm that some other weapons were also recovered from the bus.
Bomb expert have taken the particles of the explosive to ascertain the kind of explosive that was used.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:34 |
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According to report, over 300 Nigerians are said to be serving various jail terms in Indonesian prisons for peddling hard drugs while 16 of them are on death row.
The Senate made their stand after the Chairman Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs Senator Mathew Nwaghu brought the motion to the house on the plight of Nigerians abroad.
Friday, 11 May 2012 13:04 |
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The town of the 44-year-old University of Lagos Mass Communication graduate, received visitors from all walks of life, on Thursday, when his remains were brought from Edo State. The hearse and convoy of vehicles headed straight to the Permanent Orientation Camp, National Youth Service Corps, Ede, for a state burial organised by Osun State Government. Oyerinde, an activist and political thinker, who was once the Deputy Secretary General, Nigeria Labour Congress, had worked closely with Oshiomhole – when he (Oshiomhole) was the National President of the NLC. Many youth movements thronged the NYSC orientation camp, where they sang dirges and challenged the Federal Government to check the spate of unresolved killings and violence across the country. |
Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:32 |
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The Olympics are as much about tradition and legacy as they are sporting events, with none so vivid as the lighting of the torch which will now wind its way from Olympia to the Games in London. The solemn ceremony, held in the ruins of the 2,600-year-old Temple of Hera, saw actors in ancient Greek costume use a mirror to harness the sun's rays and light the Olympic torch. It marks the start of the flame's week-long journey to Britain, where it will begin an 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) route across the country before entering at the new stadium in east London.
Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:46 |
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(CNN) -- President Barack Obama's blockbuster announcement that he is in favor of full marriage equality is the most courageous thing he has done since he entered the White House three and a half years ago. Coming after his successful strategy to get Congress to repeal don't ask, don't tell so that gays and lesbians can serve openly in the military and the decision of his Justice Department to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in federal courts, he has now done nearly as much for gay people as Lyndon Johnson did for African-Americans with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. |
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday made their stand known on the 16 Nigerians facing death penalty for drug trafficking in Indonesia, saying they must face the full brunt of the law. According to the Senate President, Senator David Mark, he said Nigeria can go to war with any country who for no reason sentence Nigerians to jail.
Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, the Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshimhole, who was assassinated last Friday has been buried in his home town, Ede, Osun State.
(CNN) -- Thousands of years after the first athletes competed at the ancient stadium in Greece, a high priestess swathed in white lit a flame from the sun to mark the start of a new Olympiad on Thursday.
Editor's note: Charles Kaiser is the author of "The Gay Metropolis" and "1968 in America," a former reporter for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and a former press critic for Newsweek.