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General Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 30th, 2013
By News Express on 30/08/2013 One-time Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has landed himself in trouble over his cliam to have date former beauty queen Bianca Ojukwu. This morning, news broke that Bianca, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s widow and Nigeria’s ambassador to Spain, is set to sue Fani-Kayode over the claim made in his article, “Neither […]
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Headlines
Friday, August 30th, 2013
Aviation industry regulator, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has started probing the ArikAir pilots and officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria over alleged security breaches that led to the arrest of a 15-year-old stowaway, Daniel Oikhena, at Lagos Airport on Saturday. This is even as the boy on Wednesday landed a scholarship to […]
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Africa & World Politics
Friday, August 30th, 2013
A Chinese official with a penchant for luxury watches who sparked outrage after he was pictured smiling at the scene of a fatal accident was tried for corruption Friday, a court said.Yang Dacai was dubbed “Brother Watch” by Chinese Internet users after images of him wearing various luxury brand watches were tracked down and circulated […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Latest Politics, Presidency, Top Stories
Friday, August 30th, 2013
By Ben Agande, Abuja. President Goodluck Jonathan said Thursday in Abuja that African nations must learn to manage their resources better if they wished to overcome poverty and underdevelopment.Speaking at an audience with Pastor Chuck Pierce of Global Spheres International Church, President Jonathan said that in spite of current challenges, he was confident that African […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 30th, 2013
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany’s foreign minister ruled out his country’s participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.Guido Westerwelle told Saturday’s Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung that such a move had “neither been asked nor is it being considered by us”, according to pre-released comments by the paper. “We are pushing […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 30th, 2013
A human head and two hands have been sent to Kenya’s police commission chief, viewed as a grim warning against his efforts to reform the force, officers said Friday.A box containing the body parts apparently hacked from the same corpse was left outside the headquarters of the National Police Service Commission in the centre of […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Friday, August 30th, 2013
NEXT month,Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo, will mark his first birth day in life, because life begins at 50. It will perhaps be a good time for him to assess the situation, make sober reflections, seek the face and will of God, to plot the way for the years ahead, knowing that it is only […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Top Stories
Friday, August 30th, 2013
By KINGSLEY OMONOBI, HENRY UMORU & JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU ALL is set for tomorrow’s Special Convention of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, yesterday, assured Nigerians and participants that Police would provide water-tight security for the exercise holding at the Eagle Square, Central Area, Abuja. The Professor Jerry Gana-led convention […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, August 30th, 2013
Tinubu Magistrate Court | credits: File copy Three men, Bashorun Babajide, Aje Olumayowa, and Babajide Ajayi, have been arraigned before the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, Lagos State, for allegedly kidnapping and raping an undergraduate of the University of Lagos. In the eight counts which the police preferred against the defendants, it was alleged that after […]
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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Friday, August 30th, 2013
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke | credits: File copy The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has decried the rising level of insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, saying the impact on the Nigerian oil and gas industry is huge. The minister, in a remark at the First Nigerian Navy Offshore […]
