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Headlines
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
By PATIENCE EGWUWA Barely 24 hours after the former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, formally withdrew the claim of his alleged intimate relationship with Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu, he has also retracted a similar statement he made on Miss Chioma Anasoh and Miss Adaobi Uchegbu. Recall that the former minister had in an article entitled: […]
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Headlines, Katsina, State News
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
By Ngozi Uwujare A newly wedded wife, Jamila Saidu Umar is now cooling her heels in police cell in Katsina State after being arrested for pouring hot water on her husband, Aminu Umar, during an argument over sex. It was gathered that Umar incurred his wife’s wrath when he accused her of not performing to his […]
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Aviation, Latest Politics
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah | credits: File copy Owners and operators of foreign-registered private jets in the country are not ready to de-register them to enable their planes become Nigeria-registered in line with the new National Civil Aviation Policy 2013 unveiled by the Federal Government in May, investigations by our correspondent have shown. […]
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General Politics, National Politics, Nigerian Police, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Sunday, September 8th, 2013

The Police, on Saturday, sealed off the secretariat of the Abubakar Baraje-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party located at Plot 4, Oyi River Crescent, Maitama, Abuja. One of our correspondent, who visited the secretariat on Saturday, reports that riot policemen have taken over the two roads leading to the building. The riot policemen, who […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Super Eagles’ Emmanuel Emenike (right) dribbling past a Malawian player during their 2014 World Cup qualifier in Calabar … on Saturday | credits: AFP Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, will not pray to avoid any of the big teams that have qualified for the play-offs in the 2014 World Cup qualifying series, insisting that […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, September 8th, 2013

Belgian Tom Saintfiet position as Malawi national football team coach is untenable following his side’s 0-2 loss to Nigeria at UJ Usuene Stadium in Calabar in a 2014 World Cup qualifying game on Saturday. Saintfiet whose appointment was ratified on July 2 by the Football Association of Malawi (FAM) explained that he had an “agreement till midnight on […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, September 8th, 2013
TORONTO — Carrying fraudulent, forged and stolen passports, dozens of Nigerian women began making their way to Toronto not long ago — so many that last year the Canada Border Services Agency identified it as a “trend.” The women were between the ages of 20 and 35, and were traveling with the help of “facilitation” […]