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Headlines, Lagos, Nigerian Police, State News
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
Policemen attached to the Badagry Police Division, Lagos State, and some hoodlums have been accused of killing a 25-year-old undergraduate of Delta State University, Ifechukwude Nwainokpor, and his friend, identified simply as Kazeem. An eight-minute video clip of the gruesome killing, which was made available to PUNCH Metro, showed the two victims handcuffed together. They […]
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Aviation, Headlines
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Last Wednesday, I left Abuja city for the airport, to catch a scheduled 7pm Arik Air flight to Lagos. I got to the airport at 6pm, got my boarding pass, and waited for the boarding announcement. I expected we would depart sometime between 7pm and 8pm. At 7pm, an announcement came that our flight was […]
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Headlines
Monday, July 29th, 2013
The Ado Ekiti High Court has sentenced a middle-aged man, Innocent Eze, to eight years imprisonment for assaulting and raping a 12-year-old girl. Justice Adekanye Ogunmoye in the judgment delivered on Friday held that Eze was guilty of indecent assault and defilement. The convict was jailed one year for the first count and seven years […]
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Ekiti, Latest Politics, State News
Monday, July 29th, 2013
A governorship aspirant in the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State, Mr. Dayo Adeyeye, has described the rejection of the consensus arrangement proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan to select the party’s governorship candidate in 2014 election as gross indiscipline. Adeyeye said this in a statement issued on his behalf by the Director-General of his campaign […]
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Armed Forces, Edo, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Anxiety has enveloped Ajakurama in Ovia South West Local Government of Edo State as operatives of the Joint Task Force in the Niger Delta stormed the community demanding the whereabouts of a repentant militant, Ojuemi Perediseghabofa. The security operatives, who reportedly stormed the community at about 1am on July 18, 2013, took away Perediseghabofa’s wife […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, July 29th, 2013
The Presidency on Sunday dismissed the reported insistence of five northern governors on the sack of the Peoples Democratic Party National Chairman, Dr. Bamanga Tukur. The governors — Muritala Nyako (Adamawa), Rabiu Kwankanso (Kano), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto) —had on Saturday met with President Goodluck Jonathan on issues that […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories
Monday, July 29th, 2013
OUTCRY against its £3,000 tourists visa bond notwithstanding, Britain will commence the scheme in the six listed Commonwealth countries in November, Financial Times report quoted the Home Office as saying. The Commonwealth countries to be affected by the policy which was announced in June are Nigeria, India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The affected […]
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Headlines, Religion
Saturday, July 27th, 2013
By News Express, www.newsexpressngr.com, on 27/07/2013 The pastor’s daughter at the centre of a row between Nigeria’s umbrella Christian and Muslim groups has broken her silence, debunking claims by her father and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) that she was abducted and converted by force. The conversion of 24 years old Miss Charity (now […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Friday, July 26th, 2013
The leader of the Boko Haram Islamic sect, Sheikh Abubakar Shekau, may have been cornered by operatives of the Joint Task Force in Gwoza hills, Borno State. A top security source told Saturday PUNCH on Thursday that the JTF had located the area where the Boko Haram leader was hiding. The source stated, “We are […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, July 26th, 2013
At 119 years old Johanna Mazibuko, who lives in small town south-west of Johannesburg, could be the world’s oldest person. Ms Mazibuko was born in 1894, according to her identity papers, and has outlived five of her seven children. “God gave my life in abundance, plus a bonus. I am very old now,” she told […]
