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Social security for unemployed graduates

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, June 30th, 2014

WOGU-LABOURTHE recommendation by a committee of the National Conference that unemployed graduates should be paid a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is reasonable considering the mass unemployment in the country. How the scheme would be implemented, if adopted, however, remains a riddle that must be […]

48 feared killed in attack on churches near Chibok

Posted by admin Borno, Headlines, State News Monday, June 30th, 2014

Abubakar-Shekau-Boko-Haram-leader• APC condemns Abuja, Bauchi blasts • Urges fresh strategy against terror FRESH violence in Borno State claimed about 48 lives Sunday as suspected Boko Haram insurgents armed with explosives invaded many churches in villages near Chibok. Besides, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the terrorist attacks on Abuja and Bauchi that killed at […]

Why Nigeria cannot survive another four years of PDP rule, by Odigie-Oyegun

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Monday, June 30th, 2014

Oyegun-APCStates why APC conceded victory in Ekiti THE National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie Oyegun, said it would be difficult for Nigeria to survive another four years under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) if things continue the way they are in the country. Speaking to journalists in Benin City Sunday, […]

Free Speech & The Lessons of History – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma Saturday, June 28th, 2014

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 28, 2014 – Democracy is the best form of government. Consequently, the most successful countries of the world are mostly democracies. These are countries that allow independence of thought and freedom of expression. They do not repress individual rights to free speech in an attempt to protect […]

110 victims of Kaduna attacks get mass burial

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Friday, June 27th, 2014

By Luka Binniyat KADUNA— NO fewer than 110 victims of Monday and Tuesday’s killings in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State were, yesterday, given mass burial. Chairman of the local government, Mr. Emmanuel Adamu confirmed this development in a telephone interview with Vanguard. The National Chairman of Ninzom Progressive Youth, Mr. Bezard Wuyah, who […]

Imo 2015: My plans, prospects and preparations – Chris Anyanwu, Imo guber aspirant

Posted by admin Headlines, Imo, Top Stories Friday, June 27th, 2014

Broadcast journalist and politician, Senator Chris Anyanwu was a refreshing face on Nigerian television in the early eighties with her unique reportage of the National Assembly, and subsequently, her gripping narratives of the dynamics of the international energy market. Trained in American journalism schools, Anyanwu following her days at the NTA and stint as Commissioner […]

Confab: Anger as Kutigi unleashes DSS on Journalists

Posted by admin Latest Politics Friday, June 27th, 2014

The press men should disappear please — Kutigi roars BY HENRY UMORU, LEVINUS NWABUGHIOGU & JOSEPH ERUNKE ANGER, despondency and frustration enveloped the Justice Andrews Otutu Obaseki Hall, venue of plenary of the on- going National Conference, yesterday, when Chairman of the Conference, Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi ordered men of Department of State Service, DSS […]

15 men gang rape 16-yr-old girl in Rivers

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Friday, June 27th, 2014

By JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT — POLICE have arrested members of a 15-man gang that allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl in Gbuga area of Ogbunabali, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The state Police Commissioner, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, told newsmen, yesterday, at the Police headquarters in Port Harcourt that the girl allegedly attended a party organised in […]

Our close shave with death — Abuja blast survivors

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Boko Haram, Latest Politics, State News Thursday, June 26th, 2014

SAM EYOBOKA, OKEY NDIRIBE, BEN AGANDE, FAVOUR NNABUGWU, IKECHUKWU NNOCHIRI, VICTORIA OJEME LAIDE AKINBOADE GABRIEL EWEPU, FUNMI OLASUPO ABUJA—As outrage from within and outside Nigeria continues to trail last Wednesday’s bomb blast in Abuja, which claimed 22 lives and left 50 others injured, some of the survivors have narrated their close shave with death. The […]

Muntari, Boateng expelled from World Cup by Ghana

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Thursday, June 26th, 2014

(AFP) – Ghana stars Sulley Muntari and Kevin-Prince Boateng have been indefinitely suspended from their country’s World Cup squad after bust-ups with management, the Ghana Football Association (GFA) said Thursday. Muntari, 29, is accused of attacking a member of the management team, Moses Armah, while Boateng, 27, is said to have verbally abused national team […]