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NYSC (National Youth Service Corp), Ondo, State News
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
By Dayo Johnson, Akure CORPS members serving in Akure, the Ondo state capital wept profusely when a reckless driver knocked down and killed one of them. Saturday Vanguard gathered that the deceased, Olaniyan Tosin Michael with call up number 0D/11c/0301 was going for the weekly Community Development service CDSwhen he met his untimely death. Eyewitness […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
CAIRO (AFP) – President Mohamed Morsi took the oath of office on Saturday to become Egypt’s first freely elected leader and its first head of state since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow last year. “I swear by the Almighty God to sincerely preserve the republican order and to respect the constitution and law, and completely care for […]
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Africa & World Politics
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
BAMAKO (AFP) – Hardline Islamists occupying northern Mali went on the rampage in Timbuktu on Saturday, destroying ancient tombs of Muslim saints and threatening to wipe out every religious shrine in the fabled city. The onslaught by armed militants from the fundamentalist Ansar Dine group was launched just two days after UNESCO named the city […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
…..as Task Force on PIB submits reports By BEN AGANDE, Abuja In his first public statement since he was appointed the Group Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the new helmsman, Andrew Yakubu, yesterday promised that he will work towards repositioning the corporation for better service delivery. Speaking with State House correspondents […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
By DAUD OLATUNJI, Abeokuta Business men in the country have pleaded with the Federal Government to fast-track the dialogue process with the Boko Haram sect in order to avert further destruction of lives and property as a result of the frequent attacks by the sect. The President, Abeo-kuta Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mine and Agriculture […]
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Lagos, State News
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
There was confusion in Ilaje community in the Bariga area of Lagos last weekend as two rival cults – the Downtown Boys and Shaggy Boys – engaged in a violent struggle for supremacy. Eyewitnesses recount that sporadic gunshots rent the air as the clash raged for several hours at a stretch. CRIME DIGEST gathered […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Some Lagos residents have resorted to selling used imported cars at every available space to make ends meet, writes ADEMOLA OLONILUA Driving around the city of Lagos recently, one could not help but observe that car marts have sprung up in virtually all parts of the mainland. SATURDAY PUNCH investigations show that most of the […]
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Headlines, Niger Delta, Wole Soyinka
Saturday, June 30th, 2012
June 30, 2012 by Chukwudi Akasike, Port Harcourt Professor Wole Soyinka | credits: File copy Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has said that oil companies collaborate with corrupt governments in the past to inflict pains of environmental degradation on the Niger Delta people. Soyinka explained that the Niger Delta was systematically poisoned and degraded through […]
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Bayelsa, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, June 30th, 2012

A former governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, on Thursday lost N60m ($401,931) to the United States Government following a court ruling, premiuntimes.com reported on Friday. Alamieyeseigha lost the money when the US Department of Justice executed a forfeiture order granted by a federal district judge in the state of Massachusetts. The court granted the […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), National Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Saturday, June 30th, 2012

The Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau, Mr. Sam Saba, has said the constitution bars the bureau from making public the asset declaration forms of President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President Namadi Sambo. He said this in an interview in Abuja, on Friday. He said the National Assembly had yet to provide the required guidelines […]