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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Two journalists with the Leadership Newspapers, detained by the police on Monday were released on Tuesday evening. The Group News Editor of Leadership Newspapers Group, Mr. Tony Amoekedo, and correspondent, Chibuzo Ukaibe, were detained alongside two others at the Force Headquarters following a story their newspaper published on a “presidential directive” to attack key opposition […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Renowned legal practitioner, Prof. Itse Sagay, on Tuesday criticised the country’s ruling elite for failing to provide good governance for the nation. Sagay said this in Lagos while delivering a lecture ‘Good Governance and Enforcement of Law and Order’ at the Nigerian Institute of Management’s 2013 Management Day. He said, “The most remarkable characteristic of […]
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EFCC Politics
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Chief Godwin Obla, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission lead counsel in the money laundering charges preferred against the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has withdrawn from the prosecution team. Ikuforiji and his personal assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi, are standing trial at the Federal High Court, Lagos for allegedly accepting over […]
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Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Power generation drops by 1,074MW The poor supply of electricity being witnessed across the country currently is as a result of a significant drop in power generation from a peak of 4,517 megawatts attained on December 21, 2012 to 3,443MW on Tuesday. The 1,074MW drop is, however, a slight improvement over the 2,987.6MW peak generation […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
THE police in Bayelsa State on Tuesday recovered 10 decomposing bodies said to be those of the policemen killed in an ambush on Saturday night. Twelve policemen on escort duty were murdered in the attack along the Azuzama waterways of Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state which the Movement for the Emancipation of […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
The Nigeria Football Federation has taken a very significant step to curtail overhead cost in the administration of football in the country. The Technical and Development Committee of the federation, which met in Abuja on Tuesday, recommended for immediate implementation, a list of decisions that would substantively cut down the cost of prosecuting games involving […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Information available to sources close to the northern oligarchy indicates that members of the Jihadist group, the Yusufiyya sect popularly referred to as Boko Haram may have rejected the amnesty offer extended to the group by President Goodluck Jonathan last week. According to the information, the group said that they have not asked for the […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Emeka Chiakwelu, the principal policy strategist at Afripol Organization has urged the government of His Excellency President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria to immortalize the late Prof. Chinua Achebe by placing his image inscriptions on Nigerian stamps and currency. Speaking at Afripols headquarter in Houston-Texas, Chiakwelu reminded both Nigerians and Africans at his table commentary on […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
By Prince Charles Dickson / Jos, Nigeria / April 9, 2013 – There is no manner of death that is inconvenient for the chicken.(One is game for whatever propositions might be made to one). The phrase ‘oga at the top’, some forthnight went virile. We all know how the NSDC Lagos state commandant and ‘Channels […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
PRESS STATEMENT THE TASK OF THE LABOURER IS OVER: MRS. FUNMILAYO OLAYINKA Today I am painfully sored. As I write this with grieving heart and from a broken heart on the passage to eternity of my dear sis, our own elegant stallion,heroine of repute, all of these epaulets and more well earned and deserved all […]
