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Africa & World Politics, Aviation, Headlines
Friday, September 19th, 2014
By Okey Ndiribe The Federal Government has summoned the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Ashraf Salama, over the ill-treatment meted out on a Nigerian teenager, Master Joshua Kunle Abdulazeez, by Egypt Air. An official of the airline had torn the teenager’s Nigerian passports in Istanbul, Turkey, while on his way to Ukraine to resume studies […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, September 19th, 2014
Johannesburg – The number of South Africans known to have died in the collapse of a multi-storey megachurch in Lagos last week has risen to 84, Pretoria’s high commissioner to Nigeria said Friday. “The number has risen from 67 to 84, with more bodies discovered on Thursday,” Lulu Mnguni told AFP, adding that the toll […]
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Africa & World Politics, American Politics, Headlines
Friday, September 19th, 2014
US President Barack Obama congratulated Scotland Friday on its “full and energetic exercise of democracy,” as he welcomed the result of its historic referendum rejecting independence from the United Kingdom. “We have no closer ally than the United Kingdom, and we look forward to continuing our strong and special relationship with all the people of […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Scene of the collapsed SCOAN building on Tuesday. | credits: Goke Famadewa Rescue workers, residents and others at the site of a collapsed six-storey structure belonging to the Synagogue Church of All Nations were on Tuesday excited by the rescue of a woman four days after the incident occurred. PUNCH Metro learnt that the 45-year-old unnamed […]
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Headlines, Religion
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
By Sam Eyoboka I CORINTHIANS 7:10-11: To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife. THE recent matrimonial debacle involving Nigeria’s […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
By Esther Onyegbula LAGOS— Operatives of the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have smashed a syndicate, arresting a woman and a man that specialised in robbing unsuspecting passengers who board commercial cab along Badagry-Mile 2 route. According to Police sources, the suspects identified as Ahmed Isiaka and Victoria Amodu are part of five-man […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki The Federal Government was aware of the move by two Nigerians and an Israeli to purchase arms in South-Africa, The PUNCH’s investigations have revealed. A security source told one of our correspondents that the $9.3m seized from the two Nigerians and an Israeli in Johannesburg Airport on Monday, were […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Says Nigeria should help neighbouring countries By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, gave insight into how the government was able to contain the out-break of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, even as he said Nigeria needed to assist neighbouring countries still battling to contain the EVD pandemic.. The governor […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS)
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Jide Ojo The Nigeria Immigration Service has come a long way since it was carved out of the Nigeria Police Force in 1958. The Immigration Department, as it was known then, was entrusted with the core immigration duties under the headship of the Chief FederalImmigration Officer. During this period, only the Visa and Business Sections […]
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Africa & World Politics, African Union (AU), Headlines
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
• People rush to line up at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare seeking work from the anticipated Ebola related jobs in Liberia…on Tuesday. | credits: Washington Post Is West Africa still a part of the African Union? That is the question in the minds of individuals and stakeholders who have observed the AU’s silence in the wake […]
