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Anambra, Lagos, Latest Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, August 4th, 2013

BY CLIFFORD NDUJIHE AND OLASUNKANMI AKONI …No, Fashola should apologise to Obi — APGA LAGOS — All Progressives Congress, APC, Sunday, accused Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, of threatening the country’s unity and whipping up tribal sentiment by sensationalising the recent ‘deportation’ of some indigenes of the state from Lagos. The party in a […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
BY GBENGA OLARINOYE OSOGBO — THE Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mrs Dorothy Gimba, has ordered an investigations into the case of attempted defilement of a four-year-old girl by one Lateef Olateju, a barber, at Yemoja area in Ido-Osun, Egbedore Local Government Area of the state. The commissioner also directed the family unit of the […]
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Headlines
Sunday, August 4th, 2013
y Sam Eyoboka & Olayinka Latona THE Ogun State command of the Nigeria Police Force has agreed to deploy over 5,000 policemen to complete the efforts of a detachment of Federal Road Safety Corps members as well as officers and men of the Nigeria’s Security and Civil Defence Corps to provide needed security as the […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013

By Oluwashina Okeleji BBC Sport, Lagos Nigerian club Sunshine Stars say English Premier League side Arsenal have never asked them to take Godfrey Oboabona on trial. Media speculation last week suggested not only did the Nigeria defender turn down the offer of a trial and but he criticised manager Arsene Wenger too. “I never said […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Nigeria international, Vincent Enyeama, has been declared first choice goalkeeper at French Ligue 1 side, Lille Metropole for the 2013/14 season. According to L’Equipe, Lille manager, Rene Girard, has decided to put Enyeama ahead of Frenchman, Steeve Elana in the pecking order of goalkeepers at the club. “Vincent Enyeama (30 years) will be the number […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan, Rivers, State News
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
The Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday said the wife of the President, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, lied against him in her public account of the misunderstanding between him and the President’s wife a few weeks ago. The governor spoke in Port Harcourt when clergymen of the […]
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Action Congress of Nigeria, All Peoples' Congress (APC), Party Politics, Top Stories
Friday, August 2nd, 2013

The newly registered All Progressives Congress has begun moves to draft a former Minister of Defence (retd.), General Theophilus Danjuma, into the 2015 presidential election race, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. It was learnt that the North had foreclosed the possibility of getting the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket with President Goodluck Jonathan’s grip on the […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Headlines, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Friday, August 2nd, 2013

Nollywood actress, Uche Ogbodo, tells Nonye Ben-Nwankwo about her career and life All of a sudden, you are seen in many movies unlike before. Why are movie, producers courting you now? Are they really courting me? Well, I dont think I work more than other actresses. I know that my spirit and my zeal to […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
The US state department has issued a global travel alert because of an unspecified al-Qaeda threat. In a statement, the department said the potential for an attack was particularly strong in the Middle East and North Africa. It comes shortly after the US announced nearly two dozen embassies and consulates would be shut on Sunday. […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
A leading Zimbabwe opposition figure has called for a campaign of “passive resistance” after election results showed President Robert Mugabe’s party had won a large majority in parliament. Roy Bennett, treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), said people should force Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF to “rule by themselves”. The MDC has already said it […]