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Friday, November 29th, 2013
The Nigeria Referees Association on Friday said it had stopped further investigations into the death of one of its members, Osita Nwadiashi, who died during the body’s compulsory annual fitness test. It would be recalled that Nwadiashi slumped and died on Nov. 6 at the National Stadium, Abuja, during the 2013 pre-season fitness test for […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, November 29th, 2013
Police in Dresden say they have arrested a 55-year-old police officer on suspicion of murder after the body of another man was found in the Erz mountains in eastern Germany. They say there are indications that parts of the victim may have been eaten. The dead man lived in Hanover and had been reported missing. […]
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Edo, General Politics, Headlines, Raw Politics, State News
Friday, November 29th, 2013

> http://youtu.be/zENM6ihnyoE Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Friday apologised for the comments he made to a widow in Benin during an inspection tour on Mission Road, in the state capital, a fortnight ago. Oshiomhole said that he now regretted the comments which had become the subject of discourse in the social media. The Governor, […]
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INEC Politics, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Thursday, November 28th, 2013

A combined team of security operatives including soldiers and riot policemen on Thursday stopped the leaders of the All Progressives Congress from gaining entrance to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja. The leaders were on a peaceful protest march against the commission’s handling of the November 16 Anambra State governorship […]
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Latest Politics
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Minister of State for Finance, Yerima Ngama About $5.4bn (N864bn) has so far been invested in the Nigerian bond market by foreign investors, the Director-General, Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms Arunma Oteh, has said. She said the huge foreign investments in the Nigerian bond were a demonstration of the confidence investors had in the […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Timilehin Ebun Thirty nine-year-old police sergeant, Rasaki Alowonle, has been arraigned before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, for shooting and causing the death of a nine year-old-boy, Timilehin Ebun. The sergeant was arraigned for manslaughter on Thursday at the court after a legal advice from the state’s Directorate of Public Prosecution […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, Bayelsa, Headlines, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), State News
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva There are strong indications that a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva and his loyalists in the New Peoples Democratic Party, have finally dumped the party for the All Progressives Congress. Sylva, who was denied a second term ticket by the PDP, […]
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Governors, Headlines
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Chief Tony Anenih The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Tony Anenih, has described the defection of five governors of the party to the opposition All Progressives Congress as a sad development. He, however, urged party loyalists across the nation not to panic over the governors’ […]
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House, Latest Politics, Legislature, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Senate
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
The New Peoples Democratic Party has said PDP lawmakers in the National Assembly who choose to defect to the All Progressives Congress will not lose their seats. It said that anyone thinking that the lawmakers could lose their seats were living in the past, adding that the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guaranteed […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Oginni, Olalude and Ibekwe | credits: File copy A pupil from Osun State leads other girls in the harvest of laurels at this years West African Examination Council awards, CHARLES ABAH writes Seventeen-year-old Folafoluwa Oginni has emerged the overall best pupil in the May/June 2012 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. She […]