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CNN Top Stories: U.N. report finds Iran shipping arms to Syria

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:36:21 +0100

A confidential U.N.

CNN Top Stories: Go-go music pioneer Chuck Brown dies

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:31:50 +0100

Chuck Brown, known as the "Godfather of Go-Go," a genre blending funk, jazz and soul and other musical forms, died Wednesday, his manager said.

CNN Top Stories: Mladic trial shifts to Srebrenica horrors

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:31:31 +0100

Prosecutors shifted focused to the Srebrenica massacre Thursday as the war crimes trial of Ratko Mladic, who is accused of orchestrating a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing during the bloody civil war that ripped apart Yugoslavia, continued.

Lets Re-invent SURE: Fuel Subsidy: SNG Sues Jonathan

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:50:20 +0100

The Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has instituted a suit against President Goodluck Jonathan at the Federal High Court, Ikeja, Lagos, for allegedly withdrawing unappropriated N2.587.087 trillion from the Consolidated Revenue Fund, allegedly to meet petroleum ...

Vanguard News: Electricity in every language

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:01:11 +0100

DOUBTS about the increasing confusion in our electricity transformation programme are strengthened by the relentless quest of Nigerian officials to snap up contracts in all languages.

We currently have them in English, French, German, Japanese and Mandarin (Chinese). More will follow.

When the world has deep concerns about compatibility of technologies, Nigeria is on a reckless global search for resources from all sources for its flagging electricity supply. Some of the agreements and their implications:

Vanguard News: Police arrest 7 suspected kidnappers, recover N1.6m ransom

Thu, 17 May 2012 08:00:22 +0100

By EVELYN USMAN

IKEJA – The Special Anti-Robbery Squad of Lagos State Police Command has arrested a kidnap syndicate whose members confessed to have been responsible for the recent kidnap of a 27-year-old man in the Iba area of the state.

Of the N5 million collected as ransom for the release of the man (name withheld) the squad said it recovered N1.6 million.

The suspects, including a female, who was alleged to have masterminded the kidnap, were arrested in their abodes in Lagos.

CNN Top Stories: Closing arguments set in Edwards trial

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:27:54 +0100

Closing arguments are set for Thursday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, after his defense team rested its case without calling the former Democratic presidential candidate's ex-mistress to testify.

CNN Top Stories: Autopsy set for RFK Jr.'s estranged wife

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:26:38 +0100

A New York medical examiner will begin an autopsy Thursday on Mary Kennedy, the estranged wife of Robert F.

CNN Top Stories: Flesh-eating bug rarely infects humans

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:22:56 +0100

Flesh-eating bacteria are common in the environment, but they rarely infect humans.

Vanguard News: Stockbroker, 2 others accused of stealing N.141m

Thu, 17 May 2012 07:14:25 +0100

BY BARTHOLOMEW MADUKWE

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has dragged a 36-year old stockbroker, Faniran Olubanji Samuel and two others before a Lagos State High Court sitting in Igbosere, for allegedly stealing N141, 000, 000 belonging to APT Securities and Funds Limited during a Shares transaction.