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Africa & World Politics, National Politics, Top Stories
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
LONDON (AFP) – One of the suspects in the brutal murder of a soldier in Britain was arrested in Kenya three years ago and questioned over alleged links to Islamist insurgents, it emerged on Sunday. The Kenyan government confirmed that Michael Adebolajo was detained in 2010 but said he was handed over to British intelligence […]
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Adamawa, Borno, Presidency, State News, Yobe
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
By Ben Agande, Addis Ababa- President Goodluck Jonathan has told the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr Ban Ki Moon that due to the success so far recorded by troops deployed to the North Eastern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, the state of Emergency may not last for six months as prescribed by […]
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Legislature, Senate
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
The Senate on Thursday opposed the Federal Government’s planned liquidation of the Nigeria Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) and opted for concession. The Chairman, Senate Committee on Privatisation, Sen. Gbenga Obadara (ACN-Ogun), stated this at an interactive session with newsmen in Abuja. Obadara said the information to liquidate NITEL was conveyed to the senate at the committee’s […]
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Headlines
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
By McPhilips Nwachukwu & Uduma Kalu It would have been difficult if the burial of Chinua Achebe had passed without any controversy. Apart from the fact that the dust his autobiography, There was a Country raised was yet to settle, the announcement of his death started another round of controversy. The first controversy that came […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
New York – Nigerians all over the world have been urged to speak out and condemn the brutal murder of a British soldier on a London street on Wednesday. Amb.Habib Habu, Consul General of Nigeria in New York stated this in a message on Thursday. According to him, the beheading of the 25-year-old soldier was […]
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Armed Forces, Boko Haram, Headlines
Friday, May 24th, 2013
The Nigerian army says it has destroyed a number of well-equipped camps used by the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram, in the north-east of Nigeria. Senior officer Chris Olukolade revealed the extensive nature of the camps, which he said were used to co-ordinate attacks on nearby local communities. The BBC has not been able to […]
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Governors, Katsina, Rivers, State News
Friday, May 24th, 2013
NO fewer than 23 governors, it was gathered on Thursday, have endorsed the decision to pick Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State as consensus chairmanship candidate for the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF). Sources said though Governor Ibrahim Shema of Katsina State had also indicated interest in the job, he would be asked to withdraw in […]
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American Politics, Latest Politics
Friday, May 24th, 2013
THE Federal Government has identified a total number of 84 legitimate and legal routes through which people could come or go out of Nigeria, while about 1,497 illegal routes that entered the country had also been uncovered. Determinied to put an end to the unending insurgency in the country, the Federal Government has, therefore, approached […]
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Kaduna, Party Politics, State News
Friday, May 24th, 2013
AHEAD of Friday’s rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Southern Kaduna, chieftains of the proposed APC would join General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in Kagoro town of Southern Kaduna to welcome hundreds of former members of the PDP into the party. They include former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, of the Action […]
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Legislature, Senate
Friday, May 24th, 2013
Stakeholders in the nation’s football business have been told not to expect a dispensation where the president of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will be an all-powerful individual as drafted in a proposed bill. According to Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, a member of the Senate Committee on Sports, the current proposition where the president has the […]
