Jonathan appoints new heads of NTA, FRCN, others

Reuben Abati:


 In furtherance of efforts to continually strengthen his administration on all fronts, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has approved the following appointments to fill existing vacancies:

Keshi defends home-based players

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has defended his continued invitation of home-based players to the national team, insisting that they will be given a chance to fight for their place in the 2014 World Cup squad.
Keshi noted that having worked with the home-based players, he believes that just like their........

New tactics of Abuja sex workers

 

Like every other urban settlements, the Federal Capital Territory is having its fair share of the activities of commercial sex workers. Once upon a time, these women of easy virtue, draped in their skimpy dresses, dotted every major road and hotel in the nation’s capital.

At a point, the FCT authority became uncomfortable with the situation and so rolled out some directives to put an end to prostitution in the city. The authority, through its Secretary for Social Development, Mrs. Blessing Onuh, in fact, banned the “business” in the city.

SSS quizzes Dokubo-Asari over threat of bloodshed in 2015

 

The president of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, is currently being interrogated at the headquarters of the State Security Service in Abuja.
Dokubo was invited by the SSS, following his alleged inflammatory statements in connection to the 2015

Police hand Cuffs Firefighter At Crash Site

A firefighter is detained after refusing to move his fire engine immediately when asked to by a police officer.

A firefighter responding to a crash in Southern California was handcuffed and briefly held after he failed to move his vehicle immediately when police asked him to.

KFMB-TV video shows the firefighter being put in restraints and led away by a California Highway Patrol officer.
He was held briefly in a patrol car but not arrested.

US woman stops to help in crash, has car stolen

 

A U.S. woman who stopped to help after a car crash says a man involved in the wreck stole her car, leaving behind an injured passenger.

Jennifer Jones says she was driving Sunday in Hawaii when she saw a sport utility vehicle swerve and crash into a median.

Muslim women shocked to learn that their Islam allows wife beating

The Sunni interpretation allows for disobedient wives to be beaten, but how many Sunni women know this?

There could not possibly be any moral ambiguity on the issue of wife beating. Not in this day and age, I reassured myself. After all, Islam had not invented misogyny. Other faith traditions have had to address scriptures and religious laws that have been less than generous to women, I reasoned. Surely, a little time surfing the Internet for perspective and information would help me put the issue to rest before a reasonable bedtime. Late into the night, I continued staring at