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Abia, Headlines, State News
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
Bank gives five Toyota double -cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets to the state THE fight against insecurity in Abia State was boosted at the weekend with a donation of five security Toyota double-cabin patrol vans equipped with communication gadgets by First Bank of Nigeria Plc. to the state. The Managing Director of the […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
TO prevent an outbreak of diseases, the Imo State government has begun fumigation of 23 communities ravaged by flood last year. The State Chairman of Flood Management Committee and Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joe Obi- Njoku, is leading in the exercise. Obi- Njoku said the exercise was necessary in view of the rising high cases […]
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Latest Politics, Ondo, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
THE Olugbo of Ugbo Kingdom in Ilaje Local Council of Ondo State, Oba Fredrick Obateru Akinruntan, has given indications that the Federal Government would give a helping hand in rebuilding the burnt part of the palace of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi. Akinruntan, who led an advanced presidential team on a sympathy […]
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Africa & World Politics, African Union (AU), Headlines
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
THE take off date of the common currency in the West African Region, the Eco, may again be shifted from the planned January 2015 if presentations by the Nigerian government, the West African Monitoring Institute (WAMI), the West African Monetary Authority (WAMA) and the ECOWAS Commission Monday at the 34th meeting of the Technical Committee […]
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First Ladies, Headlines, Patience Jonathan
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan Wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, was on Monday flown to Germany for what a Presidency source said was for a check-up. Fears over Mrs. Jonathan’s health spread last year when he was away from the country for weeks. She was said to be in […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
(CNN) — Rizana Nafeek was a child herself — 17 years old, according to her birth certificate — when a four-month-old baby died in her care in Saudi Arabia. She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family. Although Rizana said the baby died in a […]
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Abdulsalaami Abubakar (1998-99), Presidency
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
FORMER Head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has again warned that the cycle of blood-letting and killing of innocent Nigerians by the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, would no longer be tolerated. Abdulsalami gave the warning in Minna, Saturday, during the graduation ceremony and inaugural lecture of Abdulsalami Abubakar Institute for Peace and Sustainable Development (AAIPSDS). […]
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Aviation, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
THERE were anxious moments last Friday at the Port Harcourt International Airport when a passenger on board a Lagos-bound Aero aircraft attempted to disembark from the plane at the point of take-off. His action triggered off suspicion in other passengers that he might have planted a bomb in the plane and was struggling to disembark […]
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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), NNP Columnists, Philip Amiola, Presidency
Sunday, January 13th, 2013

By Philip Amiola / NNP / Jan. 13, 2013 – I have observed with some degree of amusement, the wave of criticism and outrage that greeted the ill-timed ignition of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 2015 political campaign machinery. The campaign message – One good term deserves another – is especially humorous. Although Mr President has dissociated […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Sunday, January 13th, 2013
13 January 2013 Last updated at 16:54 ET Share this pageEmailPrint France Rafale jets target Gao in eastern Mali France has deployed warplanes in Mali Continue reading the main story Related Stories RAF plane leaves on Mali mission Hollande: ‘Mission not finished’ Watch Mali crisis: Who’s who? French warplanes have bombed the town of Gao […]