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Cocaine Nation? Another Nigerian Grandma arrested in Abuja With Cocaine In Hair.

March 11, 2013 No Comment

Cocaine Nation? Another Nigerian Grandma arrested in Abuja With Cocaine In Hair…. Giwa Ayoka Sikirat, a 53-years old grandmother, has been arrested with cocaine hidden in her hair, Nigeria’s anti-drug agency said on Monday. Sikirat was apprehended at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, the Nigerian Capital, while on her way to Pakistan, the [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 11, 2013.

Unbelief As Baby Buried Alive By Mother Is Exhumed Two Days After, Alive!

March 11, 2013 No Comment

A young mother, Adeola Joseph, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment with hard labour by a Magistrates Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun state for burying her only child alive in her residence for two days in 2012.The trial chief magistrate, Mr Olusola Aluko, while delivering judgement said the accused did not look remorseful and [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 11, 2013.

Alleged provocative comment: Full text of former Governor Zamfara’s statement to Police

March 10, 2013 No Comment

It is no longer news that Former Governor of Zamfara state, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima was on Saturday questioned by the Kaduna Command of the Nigeria Police after appearing on an FRCN Kaduna Hausa language programme. He was reportedly quizzed for about four hours over some comments he made on the phone-in programme DailyPost stumbled [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 10, 2013.

Boko Haram: Plot to shoot down Jonathan’s plane foiled

March 10, 2013 No Comment

…Massive arms including anti-aircraft guns, rocket propelled grenades recovered after visit to Borno… It would have been a national tragedy had it occurred. But, according to intelligence sources, security agencies saved the situation. The story is that insurgents allegedly planned to attack the plane of President Goodluck Jonathan while flying into Maiduguri, Borno State capital, [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 10, 2013.

Breaking : Nigeria Islamist group says has executed seven foreign hostages

March 9, 2013 Comments Off

Nigeria-based Islamist group Ansaru said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said. The group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 9, 2013.

Robbers storm Zenith Bank in Lagos, eight arrested

March 9, 2013 No Comment

A gang of eight armed robbers on Friday afternoon stormed the Abule Egba, Lagos State branch of Zenith Bank, causing a heavy commotion in the area as people scampered for safety. DailyPost Metro had gathered that the robbers, apparently acting on a tipoff, stormed the Zenith Bank branch located on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, at Abule [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 9, 2013.

Blasts rock northeast Nigeria after president’s visit

March 9, 2013 No Comment

,Seven loud explosions shook Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday, witnesses said, hours after President Goodluck Jonathan ended a trip there to try to galvanize support for his battle against Islamist insurgents. Witnesses said the explosions happened within minutes of each other, suggesting the kind of coordinated strike that used to be the hallmark [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 9, 2013.

Bin Laden spokesman pleads not guilty in NYC

March 8, 2013 No Comment

Sulaiman Abu Ghaith This image made available by Al-Jazeera shows Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and spokesman. Abu Ghaith has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday, March 7, 2013, in what a senior congressman called a “very significant victory” in the fight against al-Qaida. (AP Photo/Al-Jazeera) Bin Laden Spokesman NEW [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 8, 2013.

13 Christians killed in Kano

March 8, 2013 No Comment

Boko Haram VictimsThe Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN has urged the authorities to probe the gruesome killing of 13 factory workers identified as Christians at Sheka, Sharada Phase 111 in Kumbotso Local Government Area of Kano, by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram members. Although CAN has started its own probe of the killings, it [...]

Written by: newsacross on March 8, 2013.

Must Read: How Ladi Okoro escaped from ritualists’ den in Abuja

March 8, 2013 No Comment

A young girl of 18, Miss Ladi Okoro who works at Mararaba, a suburb of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, must have heard tales of how people fall victims of ritualists, yet she had not experienced one until Wednesday, 6th March, 2013 when some ritualists picked her and 2 others from Mopol Junction in Mararaba, [...]