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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi has described as untrue a statement by a former assistant coach of the team, Sylvanus Okpala, stating that the money given to the team by the Cross River State Government after last year’s Africa Cup of Nations triumph was shared by the Nigeria Football […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minimah | credits: www.nigerreporters.com A soldier has claimed that he witnessed incidents that suggested some military chiefs work with Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East. The soldier told the Voice of America Hausa Service how his military unit in Borno State was ambushed by Boko Haram members. He […]
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Headlines
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
A gang of robbers on Sunday shot dead a 59-year-old contractor, Alhaji Yusuf Surajudeen, in his home located on Adebola Street in the Ogudu, Ojota area of Lagos State. Surajudeen’s 12-year-old daughter, Aisha, was also shot in the face during the operation which lasted for less than an hour. When our correspondent visited the […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
President Goodluck Jonathan The Federal Government on Sunday finally released the result of the rebased Gross Domestic Product for the country, which showed that the Nigerian economy had overtaken South Africa’s as the biggest on the continent. The Statistician General of the Federation and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Statistics, Dr. Yemi Kale, […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Latest Politics, National Politics, Party Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, April 6th, 2014
Prominent Christians in the country’s biggest opposition party, All Progressives Congress, are threatening to quit the party over an alleged plan to field a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket. There has been speculation in recent times that power brokers in the party have concluded plans to present a Muslim/Muslim ticket for the 2015 presidential election. But Sunday […]
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Articles, Biafra, Columnists, Max Siollun, NNP Columnists
Saturday, April 5th, 2014

By Max Siollun | NNP | April 5, 2014 – January 2014 marked the 44th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian civil war, and the end of the short lived Republic of Biafra. Biafra did not live long enough to see its third birthday. Although the war ended 44 years ago, wounds from it […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Philip Ikomi
Saturday, April 5th, 2014

By Dr. Philip Ikomi | NNP | April 5, 2014 – Not too long ago, the world witnessed an open campaign to dislodge Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, from office following the dissatisfaction felt by the “international community” with his handling the matter concerning the agreement regarding his fellow fighters earlier signed with the […]
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Anambra, Chukwudi Nwokoye, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News
Saturday, April 5th, 2014

By Chukwudi Nwokoye | NNP | April 5, 2014 – Thank you Gov. Peter Gregory Onwubuasi Obi. When in 2003 I stuck my head out to support your candidacy, I followed my instinct and my judgment. I believed that you had a mission to save Anambra. Even after your victory at the polls were brazenly […]
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Articles, Columnists, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists
Saturday, April 5th, 2014

By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | Yola, Nigeria | April 5, 2014 – Troubling times are here in Nigeria. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina announced on Wednesday, March 25, 2014 a decision of the National Economic Council (NEC) chaired by the Vice-President, Namadi Sambo: Due to incessant clashes between nomadic […]
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First Ladies, Latest Politics, Patience Jonathan
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Nigerians saw how it all happened. They saw how people waved President Goodluck Jonathan’s pictures before TV cameras in the Saharawi Republic. The entire event could have been mistaken for a rally, one of those political party rallies in Nigeria where female attendees traditionally create their own planet, singing praises and painting the venue green, […]