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Boko Haram: CAN President writes Clinton

—The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oristejiafor, has written a letter to the visiting American Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, expressing CAN’s reservation on the manner the issues of Boko Haram and related violence by Islamist groups against Nigerian Christians are being treated by the United States. The Letter […]

Clinton arrives Nigeria for security talks with Jonathan

Posted by admin American Politics, Boko Haram, General Politics, Latest Politics, Top Stories Thursday, August 9th, 2012

ABUJA (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Nigeria on Thursday to meet President Goodluck Jonathan and was expected to offer assistance in helping the country stop a worsening Islamist insurgency. Her visit to Nigeria comes with Jonathan under growing pressure to stop the violence in the northern and central regions of […]

Jonathan, Hausa / Fulani leaders meet over Jos crises

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Plateau, Presidency, State News Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Abuja – President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Abuja met with the leadership of the Hausa/Fulani community in Plateau as part of ongoing efforts at finding lasting solution to the Jos crises. Addressing State House correspondents after the meeting, spokesman of the Hausa/Fulani community and a former Minister of State for Information, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki Nakande, […]

Eaglets’ 5-1 victory excites Amuneke

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Calabar – Golden Eaglets’ Assistant Coach, Emmanuel Amuneke, has expressed joy at his team’s 5-1 spanking of Diamond Stars Academy FC in a friendly at St Patrick’s College, Ikot Ansa, Calabar on Wednesday. The national U-17 team is currently camped in Calabar, ahead of the 2013 CAF U-17 qualifier against Niger Republic in September, this […]

Olympics: Help us find our athletes, Cameroon beg British police

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Cameroon Olympic officials have asked for help in tracking down seven of their athletes who have gone missing during the London Olympics, organisers said on Wednesday. The seven, including five boxers, a swimmer and a football player, have disappeared from the Olympic village in east London and are suspected of having left to stay in […]

Obey court order or face consequences – Court warns CBN governor

Posted by admin CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria), Latest Politics Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of the FCT High Court on Thursday gave CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, a last chance to obey court order or face “the consequences of disobedience’’. Baba-Yusuf gave the warning following complaints by Chief Tochukwu Onwugbufor (SAN), counsel to Chief Chudi Chukwuani, that the CBN had flouted a court order that mandated […]

RCCG, Adeboye deny colour messages

Posted by admin Headlines Thursday, August 9th, 2012

A message making the rounds on BlackBerry messenger, social networks and as text messages advising people not to wear red, blue, pink or purple has been repudiated by the Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye. The message broadcast on social networks reads : ”Pls no one shud put ? […]

Deeper Life Church massacre: CAN declares 3-day fasting, prayer

Posted by admin Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), General Politics, Religion, Top Stories Thursday, August 9th, 2012

Lokoja – The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kogi has declared a three-day fasting and prayer to solicit divine intervention in the nation’s security situation. The CAN Chairman in the State, Archbishop Emmanuel Egbunu, made the declaration in Lokoja on Wednesday when he addressed newsmen. He was responding to the killing of 17 Christians […]

My divine march to victory has begun – Mimiko

Posted by admin Headlines, Ondo, State News Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

ONDO State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has declared that he has the divine confidence that he is already marching to victory ahead of the October 20 gubernatorial election in the state. Dr Mimiko is the Labour Party standard- bearer in the election where he will be seeking a second term in office. Making an official […]

Police foil attempt to bomb PDP secretariat

Posted by admin Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Wednesday, August 8th, 2012

POLICE, on Wednesday, foiled the attempt to bomb the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) secretariat in Sokoto with improvised explosive device (IED). Informed police sources told the Nigerian Tribune that at 11.00 a.m on Wednesday, the state police command got a report that an unknown person riding unregistered motorcycle dropped a black cellophane bag near the […]