Finns Party pol: “Nothing wrong” with Nazi clock
A local Finns Party politician in the west-coast town of Vaasa acknowledges that he donated a clock with Nazi insignia on it to a local right-wing extremist group. City councillor...
Finland: Holiday schedules on Good Friday
The Easter long weekend brings various changes to business hours and transportation schedules. Banks, Alko stores and nearly all post offices will be closed until Tuesday. Easter sees many across...
Finland: One dead and five injured in Pello collision
The accident took place around 100 metres south of the Rovaniemi junction on Highway 21 on Thursday evening. The tragic incident, which involved a full-frontal collision between two cars, has...
NIGERIA: My ex-wife preferred her ex-boyfriend – Arowolo
Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly murdered his banker wife, Titilayo Arowolo, Thursday, told an Ikeja High Court that his late wife preferred her ex-boyfriend to him and their baby. Arowolo said...
NIGERIA: MTN staff abducted in Lagos
A staff of a telecommunication giant, MTN, one Yemi Owadokun, has been kidnapped in Lagos. The 44-year-old man was said to have been abducted, Thursday , at about 6.10a.m, at...
NIGERIA: Lagos acquires 100 compactors for PSPs
Lagos State government plans to provide 100 additional refuse compactors to Private Sector Participants, PSPs, as back-up trucks to its existing fleet of about 200 as part of effort to...
NIGERIA: Court orders arrest of Kogi CJ, AG, Head of Service
An Okene High Court in Kogi State, Thursday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice; the Head of Service, HOS, and the...
Biafra: Effiong, Ojukwu’s Deputy is Dead
Vanguard (Lagos) NEWS November 8, 2003 Posted to the web November 8, 2003 THE defunct Biafran General who signed the surrender document with Colonel Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Phillip Effiong...
yakubu Gowon’s Victory Message
'The Dawn of National Reconciliation' - Gowon's Victory Message to the Nation, 15 January 1970 Broadcast from Lagos, 15 January 1970. Citizens of Nigeria, It is with a heart full...
General Gowon Welcomes Biafra’s Surrender
Broadcast at midnight on 12 January 1970 (Federal Ministry of Information Press Release No. 31\1970). My Dear Compatriots: We have arrived at one of the greatest moments of the history...