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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
The estranged pioneer member of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Tom Ikimi, on Wednesday attributed his grouse with the party to the tyrannical approach to leadership by some of the leaders of the APC, including Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He said before Tinubu singlehandedly chose the former Edo State governor, John Odigie-Oyegun, he had threatened “fire […]
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Headlines, Top Stories, Yobe
Thursday, June 19th, 2014
At least 21 people were killed in an explosion which ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, Yobe State on Tuesday, Agence France Presse quoted a medical source as saying on Wednesday. “We received 21 dead bodies and 27 injured victims from the blast,” said the source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, June 16th, 2014
At least 48 people have been killed after unidentified armed men attacked Mpeketoni, a coastal town in Kenya’s Lamu county, and set fire to three hotels and a police station, reports say. The area is in the heart of the East African country’s tourism industry. The attackers targeted several buildings on Sunday, including hotels, a […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, State News
Monday, June 16th, 2014
The Akwa Ibom Police Command on Sunday arrested 63 persons, suspected to be members of ‘Black Axe,’ a cult group. DSP Etim Dickson, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer, announced this while briefing newsmen in Uyo. He said that the suspected cult members were arrested during their initiation at Effoi village forest, near Eket. The […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, June 16th, 2014
At least three people have been killed and more than 80 people injured in overnight mob attacks led by Sinhala Buddhist monks in two coastal Sri Lankan towns, according to medics. Sri Lanka’s police on Monday extended a curfew across the popular resort towns of Aluthgama and Beruwala after Muslim properties and mosques came under […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Monday, June 16th, 2014
Gov. Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has condemned Sunday’s attempt to bomb the Living Faith Church, located on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri. Okorocha, who addressed newsmen condemned the act, and commended the security agencies for their timely intervention. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the two improvised explosive devices were hidden under a flower […]
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Abuja (FCT), Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
The Abuja-Kaduna standard rail project is 85 per cent completed, the Minister of Transport, Senator Idris Umar, has said. Umar announced this on Saturday in Doko, Kaduna State, at a ceremony to mark the attainment of 100km of track-laying for the railway modernisation project. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that Vice President Namadi Sambo […]
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Boko Haram, Borno, Headlines, State News
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Boko Haram sect | credits: File copy The terrorist sect, Boko Haram, on Sunday reportedly killed 15 persons, mostly traders in a local market in Daku village in the Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. The terrorists were said to have stormed the market in the early hours of Sunday, armed with AK47 rifles, […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke A civil rights organisation, under the aegis of Gatekeeper Foundation, has insisted that the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, must be relieved of her position in order to ensure non-interference with the forensic audit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. The group also attributed the rejection of Madueke […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, June 15th, 2014
June 16, 2014 by Plus Ayinor The Iranians spent a whole lot of time in their Saturday training session on their defence. Apart from the goalkeeper trainer Dan Gasper, there was also another specialist on defence brought in according to Iranian journalists on ground. Gasper however told The PUNCH that they were not planning to […]
