WORLD AFFAIRS

Parties to Western Sahara conflict conclude informal talks in New York

The parties to the Western Sahara dispute, Morocco and the Frente Polisario, have concluded another round of United Nations-backed informal talks in New York during which they continued to deepen their discussions on the issue of the electoral corps and mechanisms for self-determination.

IMMIGRATION/DEPORTATION

UK deports 61 Nigerians, UN to help fight human trafficking

British Prime Minister

SIXTY-ONE Nigerians, comprising three children, 47 males and 11 females were yesterday deported from the United Kingdom (UK) and handed over to the Nigerian Immigration officials at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Education/Visa

Study Visa in UK now made easy

Those who think the United Kingdom has made the opportunity of Nigerian students securing study Visa abroad stiff and unattainable can breathe a sigh of relief as the representative of thirty universities and colleges in the UK and five universities in Canada; Mrs. Bola Agunbiade has stated that obtaining study Visa will henceforth be easy if the student has genuine credentials.

COMMENTARY

The heck about Amaechi’s public house experience                                                               By Odimegwu Onwumere

 It is replete with Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State, in stating how he lived with his crowd of siblings and their parents in public house (christened Face me I Face you) at Diobu, Port Harcourt. Amaechi never made any speech either in the media, church, social gathering, political campaign etc. without mentioning how, in the phantom house, they queued in the mornings to take bath, one after another, since he assumed power in October 26, 2007. 

SPECIAL NEWS

The Nigerian Boko Haram sect has dropped another bombshell

Manga, 1st Nigerian S. bomber

We have 100 volunteer suicide bombers for 2011 High Profile Targets, Says Boko Haram…We will kill our Leader if he undermines the Jihad…Explosive used at force head quarters was imported

EXCLUSIVE NEWS FEATURE

'Voodoo' caretaker who trafficked young girls & made them eat hearts jailed 20 years

Anthony Harrison

Teenage victim was cut with razors and locked in a coffin in a bizarre Juju ritual. Groundbreaking case is first in UK where voodoo victims have revealed their ordeal. Asylum seeker becomes first to be convicted of trafficking victims OUT of Britain

SPECIAL NEWS

Woman with 7 miracle babies charged for child trafficking

By Chid Nkwopara

Imo State Police Command, yesterday, arraigned the seven miracle births alleged mother, Mrs. Precious Ogbonna, at an Owerri Chief Magistrate Court and charged her for child trafficking.

OPINION/VIEWPOINT

Usurping legislative powers

By kingsley Omose

The outcry that would greet efforts by a serving Minister of Petroleum to issue guidelines that contain radical changes to the laws in the Upstream sector as contemplated in Petroleum Industry Bill, is difficult to imagine, but that is exactly what is happening with the introduction of full-fledged Islamic banking by Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi.