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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Views: 169 Nigeria have secured a place in the semi-final of the African Nations Championship after beating Morocco 4-3 after extra-time in the quarter-final match played at the Cape Town Stadium. A first half brace from Mohsine Moutaouali and a goal from Iajour Mouhssine ensured Hassan Benabicha’s side got a three-goal lead in the first […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Views: 1001 Rivers State Governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has made good his words to personally attend today’s rally in Ogoniland despite fears of a breakdown of law and order and advice against doing so. “We are off to Bori for the rally and His Excellency is going with us,” a source close to […]
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Headlines
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Views: 610 President Goodluck Jonathan and Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu have saluted the home Super Eagles on their exhilarating come-back victory over their Moroccan counterparts this evening in Cape Town in the quarter-finals of the ongoing African Nations Championship (CHAN). “President Jonathan applauds the indomitable spirit with which the Super Eagles fought back from […]
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Latest Politics
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
Views: 2105 All Progressives Congress (APC) Interim Deputy National Secretary, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, has vowed not to report at the headquarters of the State Security Service (SSS) this morning as requested by the Nigerian secret police. The SSS, also known as Department of State Service (DSS), had yesterday invited el-Rufai to appear at its headquarters […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Top Stories
Saturday, January 25th, 2014
The home-based Super Eagles on Saturday in Cape Town, South Africa, came back from three goals down to overcome Morocco’s Atlas Lions 4-3 in extra time and advance to the semi-final of the ongoing African Nations Championship. The victory brought back memories of 1989: when Nigeria came back from four goals down to beat USSR […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Friday, January 24th, 2014
■ Parents put teenage daughter in a cage for two and half years From Femi Folaranmi, Yenagoa Tongues have begun to wag in Bayelsa following the discovery of a 16-year-old girl, Blessing Olokumo who had been locked up in a cage for the past 30 months by her parents over an alleged witchcraft induced illness. […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Bauchi — There was pandemonium at the Upper Court 4 in Anguwan Jaki, Bauchi State, yesterday, as an angry mob almost lynched seven suspected homosexuals brought to court for trial. One of the suspects was identified as the Principal of a Government Secondary School in the state. The development forced security personnel at the court […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 4573 Lagos State University students went on the rampage Thursday, disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the process. The protest which started Wednesday over the closure of the university’s registration portal, led to stoning of the University Vice Chancellor Prof. John Obafunwa, as he tried to evade the riotous students […]
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Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP)
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 347 The political crisis brewing in the country is about to boil over as the All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared war on the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan. APC at a meeting of its interim National Executive Committee (NEC) held today in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, […]
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Legislature, Nigerian Police, Senate
Thursday, January 23rd, 2014
Views: 3234 The fog surrounding the London medical trip of Senator Magnus Abe, the Senator representing Rivers South East zone and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), has finally been cleared. There had been controversy over whether Abe was really shot during a political rally penultimate Sunday (January 12) in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State, […]
