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Nigerian, Edet Umoafia, wins top Canadian Business Award

Posted by admin Headlines, NNP News Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Written by New Nigerian Politics It was celebration galore on September 24th at the 10th Anniversary of Canadian Aboriginal Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) gala event where several awards were given to high achieving global business leaders, corporations and small businesses across the country for their exploits in various spheres of business endeavours. The well attended event […]

Boko Haram: Military vows to avenge beheaded pilot

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Top Stories Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Posted by: Yusuf Alli, Managing Editor, Northern Operation in Featured, News 12 hours ago •Orders massive air strikes on sect •To take delivery of Cobra gunships soon •Friends identify pilot Vengeance: That is the warning from the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, to Boko Haram following claims by the sect to have beheaded a pilot of the Nigeria Air Force. Although the […]

Why I walked out of my marriage —Ini Edo

Posted by admin Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry) Sunday, October 5th, 2014

It is no more news that Nollywood diva and producer, Ini Edo’s marriage to her US-based husband, Philip Ehiagwina, has crashed. The marriage was said to have crashed a few weeks ago, but the couple decided to keep the news away from the public. While the marriage lasted, there were reports that Ini Edo was […]

Gunners can bounce back from Chelsea 6-0 thrashing — Wenger

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Arsene Wenger Arsene Wenger has described Arsenal’s 6-0 defeat at the hands of Chelsea as ‘horrendous’ but the Frenchman is confident his side can turn the tables when they travel to Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Wenger’s side were humiliated by their rivals on his 1,000th game as Arsenal manager last season. And despite an unbeaten start to the Premier […]

Synagogue: Lagos begins probe Oct. 13

Posted by admin Headlines, Lagos, State News Sunday, October 5th, 2014

TB Joshua The Lagos State Government has said the coroner it inaugurated to probe the circumstances surrounding the collapse of a six-storey building belonging to the Synagogue Church of All of Nations will commence sitting on October 13, 2014. This was contained in a statement released by the Lagos State Ministry of Justice on Friday. […]

Ex-Haiti leader Jean-Claude Duvalier dies

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who ruled Haiti from 1971 until he fled the country in 1986, has died of a heart attack aged 63. The death of Duvalier, who returned to Haiti in 2011 after 25 years of exile, was announced by Florence Guillaume Duperval, the nation’s health minister, on Saturday. President Michel Martelly, reacting on Twitter, called […]

Keshi is ‘killing’ Super Eagles – Ikpeba (Instead of pulling him down, why not support him – Winning African Cup is hardly ‘killing’ Nigerian football)

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, October 5th, 2014

By Tony Ubani Ex-international, Victor Ikpeba was among the galaxy of stars who witnessed Delta FA Chairman Melvin Amaju Pinnick enthroned as the President of the Nigeria Football Federation. Ikpeba was happy with the decision of the delegates to vote a young man who loves challenges, a young man who could bring corporate organisations to support football, a man […]

The Federal Republic of Dust and Ashes –1

Posted by admin Latest Politics Sunday, October 5th, 2014

By Dele Shobowale “Life is brief; a little hope; a little dream and then – good night.”Leon Montanaeken, 1859. “Ah make the most of what we may yet spend/ Before we too into dust descend/ Dust unto dust…Omar Khayyam. Dying is a serious business; as much as living – believe me. With it, the Grim […]

Fall out of National Day speech

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Sunday, October 5th, 2014

By Henry Umoru & Bashir Adefaka In a self-assessment of his administration, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, on the 54th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence, last Wednesday, presented a 59-paragraph speech in which the nation’s number one citizen awarded his leadership a pass mark. He said that in the overall administrative performances and democratic dividends delivery, he had […]

Snap! Hajj selfies gain popularity, spark controversy

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Raising his arm, Yousef Ali hugs his elderly father in front of one of Islam’s holiest sites as they grin for a selfie — a craze that has hit this year’s hajj. But not everyone is happy about young pilgrims from around the world constantly snapping “selfies”, photographs taken of one’s self, as they carry […]