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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
SIX days after the fundamentalist Islamic sect, Boko Haram, set conditions for ceasefire, President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday described its members and sponsors as “uncivilised” “Terminating innocent lives through terrorist acts is primitive, so perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism through Boko Haram cannot be anything but uncivilised,” Jonathan said. He spoke in Dutse, Jigawa State […]
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Akwa Ibom, Headlines, Rivers, State News
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
THE recent acquisition of private jets by the governments of Rivers and Akwa Ibom states is as reckless as it is highly insensitive. The massive waste of money is coming at a time when the rate of poverty and deprivation is worsening in the country. It is indefensible for state governors to add acquisition of […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
What exactly happened to Dr. Olawunmi Thorpe, an Ogun State indigene, who died a homeless man, may never be known. To passersby and residents, who saw Thorpe everyday in the rubbish dump beside the rail line at Fagba Bus Stop in Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State, he was a deranged man. But what […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012
President Barack Obama handily defeated Gov. Mitt Romney and won himself a second term Tuesday after a bitter and historically expensive race that was primarily fought in just a handful of battleground states. Networks project that Obama beat Romney after nabbing the crucial state of Ohio. The Romney campaign’s last-ditch attempt to put blue-leaning Midwestern […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous […]
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Articles, Emmanuel Ajibulu, NNP Columnists, Ondo, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Emmanuel Ajibulu | Abuja, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | As expected with every victory, the landslide success of Governor Olusegun Mimiko at the October 20, gubernatorial poll, triggered uncontrollable jubilation amongst the great people of Ondo State and even beyond. In the euphoria of jubilation, the number one citizen was swarmed with congratulatory […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, Kenneth Uwadi, NNP Columnists, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Kenneth Uwadi | Imo, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | This is certainly not the best of times for over 15 communities of Egbema and Oguta in Imo State of Nigeria ,many of whom have been forced to flee their homes in the last four weeks due to flood and are now taking temporary […]
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Columnists, Headlines, muhammad Ajah
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
COMMUNICATION By Muhammad Ajah (From his poem collection “Man in the Mirror”) Have I read the better Than Wordsworth of Cumberland? The flowing ideas that prick Blockheads, ignorance-home And freshens savants’ anxiety to impact Through logical strings of soft words Words-worthy for simplicity Wherefore can I liken the medium Between man and knowledge The orator […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
NIGERIAN international, Victor Moses scored his first Premier League goal for Chelsea, as the Blues laboured to a 1-1 draw away to Swansea at the Liberty Stadium yesterday. Moses struck with a header in the 61st minute to put Chelsea in the lead but were forced to settle for a share of the spoils […]
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Headlines, Imo, State News
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
DISTURBED by the high level of immorality it has caused among Imo people, the State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has ordered the immediate closure of all clubs where women dance in the nude. Briefing journalists on Tuesday in Owerri, the state capital, Okorocha regretted that the state had been turned into ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ of […]
