Kogi State Governor, Ibrahim Idris has debunked the claims by a national newspaper (not Daily Sun) in its last Sunday edition that policemen searched his Asokoro, Abuja, private residence where they allegedly recovered dollar-printing machine and substances suspected to be cocaine. A visibly enraged Idris said the report was one of the several antics of [...]
MAM DHERI, Pakistan – This village in Pakistan’s troubled Swat Valley suffered through years of Taliban rule and months of battles between Islamist militants and the army. But for a man who has seen it all, that’s nothing compared to the last three days of flooding. Pakistan’s impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst [...]
One being a Cybernomad. Inhabiting cyberspace is something that should suit wanderlust. Cyberspace provides a relatively free environment for one to migrate from one location to the other. Cybernomadism, the habit of constantly migrating from one location in cyberspace to another, seems very attractive for many reasons. With the collapse of community in real life, [...]
SAMARRA, Iraq — When the Americans arrived, Hamid Ahmad, a former air force warrant officer imprisoned under Saddam Hussein, imagined a new life for his family, freed from the burdens of tyranny. In seven hard years, nothing went as planned. Abd al-Hakim Ahmad said Hamid Ahmad, his brother, had hoped to move to the United [...]
The kidnappers of four Lagos-based journalists and their driver have reduced the N250 ransom demanded by them to N30m. The President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Mallam Mohammed Garba, disclosed this on Thursday, just as the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Ogbonna Onovo, said policemen and State Security Service operatives were closing in on the [...]
The abductors of Hajiya Abdulahi Laraba, the mother of the ousted Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Sani Lulu, have rebuffed all entreaties by the latter to allow him speak with his aged mother, even as they have extorted recharge cards worth of N40,000 from the Kogi State-born football administrator. They also rejected the [...]
Ogbonna Onovo, the Inspector General of Police, has ordered the deployment of special detectives from Imo and Akwa Ibom States to assist in the rescue of five journalists kidnapped on Sunday. Emmanuel Ojukwu, the spokesperson of the police, said on Monday, that the police are concerned about the abduction of the journalists, which took place [...]
There is a Breaking Rumour about this gruesome murder in Lagos Benin Express way Man’s inhumanity to man. A bus was ambushed by armed robbers, the passengers were robbed and raped, those that had nothing to give were asked to lie down on the road face down and the driver on gun point was commanded [...]
Chilly on the plane? Bring a sweater, or $8 for a blanket-and-pillow pack, if you’re on a domestic American Airlines flight. On May 1, the carrier will begin charging for a pillow and blanket set on all domestic flights, as well as those to or from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the Caribbean and Central America, according [...]
CHANGSHA, China — With a few quick keystrokes, a computer hacker who goes by the code name Majia calls up a screen displaying his latest victims. “Here’s a list of the people who’ve been infected with my Trojan horse,” he says, working from a dingy apartment on the outskirts of this city in central China. [...]
Ogun State Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate Dipo Dina was shot dead last night. He was killed in the industrial town of Sango Ota, Ogun State by unknown assailants who shot him through the windshield of his SUV, a source said. In his Ijebu-Ode hometown, there was anxiety as news of his death spread. Many [...]
A Nigerian student at the University College, London, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, has been arrested for detonating an explosive device aboard a Northwest/Delta Airlines flight 243. Wire reports indicated that the 23-year-old student, detonated the device as the Airbus A330 aircraft, inbound from Amsterdam, was landing at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Detroit, Michigan, United States late [...]
A parcel bomb exploded in the premises of Superscreen, a private television station, in the Onipanu area of Lagos yesterday, ripping off the right hand of the conveyer of the explosive device. The incident, which occurred at about 1.30 p.m, sparked fears and apprehension among staffers and other occupants of Logemo House, the multi-storey building [...]
