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Brazil 2014: Enyeama, Emenike, Osaze, Mikel, Uche’re Keshi’s biggest assets — Bazuaye

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Sunday, May 4th, 2014

*Says someone else took his father’s credit for the Atlanta ’96 gold BY OJIEVA EHIOSUN As Nigerian football fans await the final release of the Super Eagles list for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, former Nigerian International, Baldwin Bazuaye, has affirmed that players like Vincent Enyeama, Osaze Odemwingie, Emmanuel Emenike, Mikel Obi and […]

2015: INEC moves to check fraud

Posted by admin Headlines, INEC Politics Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Ekiti loses 108,529 ghost voters, Osun loses 98,824 ghost voters BY JIDE AJANI Professor Attahiru Jega’s Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is moving against fraud in future elections with the full complement of the Advance Automatic Finger Identification System, AAFIS, exercise, which has seen 108,529 voters deleted from the voter register (VR) for Ekiti State. […]

‘2015 presidential election may not hold’

Posted by admin Kaduna, Presidency, State News Sunday, May 4th, 2014

By Olayinka Ajayi Veteran politician and second republic governor of old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, is worried that there appears to be a conspiracy to stop the 2015 presidential election. Balarabe, in this interview, also speaks on the insecurity challenge the nation is facing, the hostilities between Fulani hersdmen and locals in some parts […]

Man attacks police officer with machete to evade arrest

Posted by admin Headlines, Nigerian Police Sunday, May 4th, 2014

BY DAUD OLATUNJI, Abeokuta A-20-year-old man, Segun Ogunleye, was arraigned before an Abeokuta magistrate court, sitting in Isabo, for attempted murder of a police officer. The suspect, of Araromi area, Abeokuta, was reported to have attacked one Constable Bolorunduro Mayegun with a cutlass on forehead and hand to evade arrest. According to the investigating police […]

‘Boko Haram got N11bn to kill, maim’

Posted by admin Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Can the N-Delta model stop the insurgents? In what is turning out to be a DOUBLE WAMMY for residents of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, they would now have to contend with the episodic threats of bombings and bombings by members of the Jama’atu Ahliss-Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, on […]

Aftermath of ‘Nyanya 2’ blast: Residents scared to leave their homes

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics Sunday, May 4th, 2014

By Soni Daniel Four days after the bomb blast that rocked the Abuja suburb of Nyanya, the second within a fortnight, terrified residents have opted to keep off public places. Findings by Sunday Vanguard indicated that the residents of Masaka, Karu and Kugbo, which share boundaries with the bus terminal that was bombed in the […]

Senator Iyabo Obasanjo writes Boko Haram, says insurgents more competent than Jonathan’s men

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Senate Sunday, May 4th, 2014

advertisement Ad Info X X Ad Info X X Ad Info X X <a href=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?sid=12386&m=6&c=1″ target=”_blank”><img src=”http://media.fastclick.net/w/get.media?sid=12386&m=6&tp=8&d=s&c=1&vcm_acv=1.3″ width=”300″ height=”250″ border=”1″></a> By EMMANUEL AZIKEN, POLITICAL EDITOR Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of being a hindrance to the resolution of the crisis posed by the Boko Haram insurgency. […]

234 Abducted Girls in Nigeria: Time for Decisive Action

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Press Statement by the Christian Association of Nigerian-Americans, CANAN on the abduction of about 234 school girls by Boko Haram in Borno State, Nigeria Cananusa.org-NY-May 1, 2014–-It is now over two weeks after Boko Haram kidnapped about 200 innocent school girls from their Middle/High School in Chibok, Borno State of Nigeria. Since then the world […]

Heavy crackdown in Abuja before World Economic Forum event

Posted by admin Abuja (FCT), Headlines, State News, Top Stories Sunday, May 4th, 2014

Nigerian security forces have detained several people in Abuja over recent bomb attacks, days before a World Economic Forum event in the capital. Most of those held were said to be foreign, but no details were announced. Officials have ordered schools and government offices to close during the WEF event, which be attended by the […]

All Loot and No Work Makes Me a Rich Man – By Akinbtokunbo A. Adejumo

Posted by admin Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists Saturday, May 3rd, 2014

By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | May 3, 2014 – “The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury” has been a popular quotation on many websites since the global financial crisis of 2008. The quotation is usually attributed to George Washington (1732-1799), but there is no evidence that he […]