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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Scene of the blast. | credits: Sam Adeko The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday accused the opposition All Progressives Party of culpability in the bomb blast which killed over 70 people in Nyanya, Abuja, on Monday. While condemning the act which it described as barbaric, monstrous and extremely wicked, the PDP said the attacks were […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
The Nigeria Police Staff College, Jos, on Tuesday, graduated 71 detectives who participated in the college’s Advanced Detective Course. Addressing the graduates at a ceremony in Jos, the College Commandant, AIG Bala Hassan, said the six-week course was part of the force’s deliberate attempt to strengthen its operations. Hassan said the security challenges facing the […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
There was confusion in Portharcourt, the Rivers State capital on Tuesday as operatives of the Nigeria Police Force evacuated a leather bag suspected to contain explosives. Residents, commuters and traders along the ever busy Ikwerre Road axis of Port Harcourt ran for their dear lives when an unidentified man dropped laptop bag by the roadside […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
Azuka Onwuka | credits: File copy One thing that is striking about Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is that he is a fighter. He is also never afraid to bare his mind on any issue. As a fighter, when President Olusegun Obasanjo denied him his Peoples Democratic Party governorship ticket with the lame excuse […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Tuesday, April 15th, 2014
| credits: File copy Suspected Boko Haram insurgents on Tuesday abducted no fewer than 100 girls at the Senior Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, following a violent attack in the town. But the BBC quoted parents to have told it’s Hausa service that at least 200 girls were abducted. Eyewitnesses said the girls who were […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, April 14th, 2014
IS there something so unAfrican about corruption that we do not understand, yet we can accuse others of corruption without noticing it seeping through our systems? Brother Robert Gabriel Mugabe, ruler of Zimbabwe since independence on 18 April 1980, during his 90th birthday lunch accused Nigerians of corruption. “Are we now like Nigeria where you […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, April 14th, 2014
We’ll defeat Boko Haram —Jonathan FG has run out of ideas— APC govs Perpetrators must be brought to book —Buhari APC calls for national security summit APC leadership, govs are responsible —PDP alleges Jonathan should do more to end bombings —SERAP BY OUR REPORTERS ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, assured the nation that the […]
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Headlines, Latest Politics
Monday, April 14th, 2014
BY OMOH GABRIEL in Washington Nigeria got a total of $21 billion as home remittances flows from Nigerians living abroad in 2013. This puts the country as the fifth largest recipient of foreign remittances among developing countries and first in Africa. Data released by the World Bank in Washington, weekend, showed that India remained in […]
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Headlines, Wole Soyinka
Monday, April 14th, 2014
Y GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO— Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday in Osogbo, declared that the country was in need of competent leaders to confront, among others, the security challenges facing the country. He said the security challenges facing the country could not be solved by prayers, but by leaders with capacity to deal with the […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, April 14th, 2014
By Tony Ubani As the zero hour approaches swiftly for the Brazil World Cup( 58 days to go), Super Eagles have been given a semi final target. The Nigerian Supporters Club(Worldwide) in a World Press conference yesterday at their Ayinde Giwa secretariat set the target noting that the target was solely for musical group who […]
