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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Friday, September 13th, 2013
-Punch The 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival may be one of the most memorable Nigerian film practitioners have been part of. This is not just because Half of a Yellow Sun, a film adapted from Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie’s novel that goes by the same title, was premiered there on Sunday. Perhaps more important is […]
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Headlines, Rivers, State News
Friday, September 13th, 2013
By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned that John Vidal, a correspondent with The Guardian newspaper in London, has been arrested by overzealous local police men in Eleme, Rivers State. Sources said he was seized along with his photographer, who was identified simply as Noah. Both British nationals were said to have been taking pictures […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, September 13th, 2013
-Punch FIFA has slapped a $5,370 fine on Kenya for the improper conduct of fans during the 2014 World Cup Group F qualifier return leg match against Nigeria in Nairobi on June 5, reports in Kenya say. In a letter to Football Kenya Federation, FIFA stated that the federation was liable for the improper […]
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All Peoples' Congress (APC), Party Politics
Friday, September 13th, 2013
-Punch The leadership of the All Progressive Congress has directed its governors to enter into talks with their aggrieved counterparts in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party. The 11 APC governors, including Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, it was gathered, had been asked to use their contact and speak with the governors on the […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, September 13th, 2013
A report in a British newspaper alleging that the Federal Government placed order for 53 customised gold iPhones, ahead of the 53rd independence anniversary, has sparked outrage on the social media. The Independent reported on Wednesday that the FG ordered the iPhones said to be worth N682m from a luxury products company, Gold and Co. The […]
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Headlines
Friday, September 13th, 2013
The fully unravelling Peoples Democratic Party represents two unwholesome legacies of prolonged military rule; namely, the politics of violent subjugation in which dissent and treason are synonymous; and the politics of what Chinua Achebe called “the juicy morsel”, which speaks to a terrain in which state power is viewed cynically as a loot sharing instrument […]
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Latest Politics
Friday, September 13th, 2013
-Punch President Goodluck Jonathan’s strategists and close associates have begun pushing for the appointment of grass-roots politicians to replace the nine sacked ministers. The PUNCH gathered in Abuja on Thursday that the strategists and aides believe that states, whose governors are considered hostile to Jonathan should produce persons who are politically astute and brave enough to […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Rivers, State News
Friday, September 13th, 2013
There was a drama in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Thursday as policemen stopped Governor Rotimi Amaechi from gaining entrance into the Government House. Amaechi was in company with 102 former Speakers of state Houses of Assembly when a team of policemen, allegedly drafted by the State Police Commissioner, Mr. Joseph Mbu, blocked the Forces […]
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Articles, Columnists, House, Legislature, NNP Columnists, Senate
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
By Hon Bimbo Daramola | Abuja, Nigeria | Sept. 12, 2013 – The penultimate week was not the week of federal lawmakers. The endangered species had to come into fresh national prominence to face the rage of the Nigerian people who largely elected them as their representatives from the length and breadth of this country. The umbrage […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Women Politics
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
By Emmanuel Arinze | Abuja, Nigeria | Sept. 12, 2013 – I am not one to make much fuss about media reports beyond profiling and updates. By virtue of my profession, my involvement with virtual and terrestrial media – local and foreign – usually does not transcend the bounds of neutral analysis. But, I must […]
