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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, National Politics, Sultan of Sokoto, Top Stories
Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
By Luka Binniyat KADUNA — THE Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday, asked President Goodluck Jonathan to immediately grant amnesty to all members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a way of encouraging them to lay down their arms. Abubakar, who is also the President-General of Ja’matu Nasril Islam, JNI, the umbrella […]
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Books & Magazines
Monday, March 4th, 2013
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, March 4th, 2013
Three weeks after wining the African Nations Cup with the Super Eagles, midfielder Nosa Igiebor is unable to rejoin his Spanish club, Real Betis. This is because the Spanish Embassy in Lagos as Thursday, was still playing hide and seek with regards to the issuance of an entry visa to the player. Igbiebor after the […]
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Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
By Arnold A. Alalibo / NNP / March 4, 2013 – Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili, former Vice President of the World Bank and ex-Minister of Solid Minerals and Education, was in the news recently over her challenge to the Federal Government to account for N45 billion in foreign reserve account and another N22 billion in the […]
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Abia, Headlines, Letters, State News
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
The editor, I would like to thank the senate of Abia State University for withdrawing the certificate formerly granted our admirable one-time governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu. If I have the power to grant national honors, the members of the Senate of the university who who voted for the withdrawal of the […]
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Articles, Columnists, Jideofor Adibe, PhD, NNP Columnists, Party Politics
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
By Dr. Jideofor Adibe / London, UK / March 4, 2013 – The recent announcement by the leading opposing parties that they were dissolving their parties in favour of a mega party, the All Progressive Congress (APC) took Nigerians by surprise. True, Nigerians were not unaware of its coming but very few expected that it […]
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Headlines, Kwara, Nigerian Police, Raw Politics, State News, Top Stories
Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
ENUGU-Tragedy struck in Enugu Saturday night when the Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Chinwike Asadu, was shot dead by unknown gunmen. His police orderly, Aloha Olaniyi and Driver, Oliver Omeh, who were with him at the time of the incident sustained serious bullet wounds and are said to be lying critically at the National […]
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Abia, Headlines, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
The Abia State University has withdrawn the degree certificate it awarded to a former governor of the state, Uzor Orji Kalu. An online news portal, Premium Times, reports that the university in a statement by its Registrar, O. E. Onuoha, on Saturday said the decision was taken after an emergency meeting of the university senate […]
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General Politics, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), Presidency
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, declared that Nigeria lacked good leaders. Obasanjo lamented that the dearth of good leaders in the country as well as on the African continent, had become an issue that deserved serious attention. The former president spoke during the final of the African Regional […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Rivers, State News
Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, are threatening to leave the PDP, SUNDAY PUNCH has gathered. Reliable sources within the party told our correspondents on Friday that a few of the governors had intimated the party leadership with their disaffection and […]
