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American preacher, Benny Hinn, visits Toronto

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, NNP News Monday, August 6th, 2012

Written by New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics has learned that famous American preacher, Evangelist Benny Hinn, will be in Toronto this week ministering at the expansive Prayer Palace Church located at 1111 Arrow Road, Toronto, ON M9M 3B3. Sources confirmed to New Nigerian Politics that the flamboyant preacher will hold three services at the […]

Letter: Let Abati be

Posted by admin Headlines, Letters Monday, August 6th, 2012

I have just finished reading Sabella Abidde’s “Abati should consider resigning his appointment”, published in The PUNCH, Wednesday, August, 1. It was a fine piece though but missed the point by the suggestion for Abati to resign his appointment with President Goodluck Jonathan. Journalism especially as obtained in the private media here in Nigeria is […]

Senate warns members against aviation minister’s tour

Posted by admin Aviation, Legislature, Senate Monday, August 6th, 2012

The Senate on Sunday said any Senator that tavels with the Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Stella Oduah, on her proposed three-nation tour would not be representing the upper arm of the National Assembly. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe, made this known in an exclusive interview with one […]

Picture: Nigerian player dies on Romanian pitch

Posted by admin Headlines, Soccer, Sports Monday, August 6th, 2012

A Nigerian player, Henry Chinonso Ihelewere, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a friendly match between Romanian second division teams CS Delta Tulcea and FC Balotesti on Sunday. Delta’s Ihelewere, 21, collapsed with no-one around him only 15 minutes after coming on as a second-half substitute. The game was played in the town […]

I won’t resign, Jonathan replies Boko Haram • Request is rude and blackmail – Presidency

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, August 6th, 2012

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said he would neither resign nor convert to Islam as demanded by the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, as a condition to ceasefire. Jonathan, who spoke through his spokesperson, Reuben Abati, on a day that fivesoldiers died in an attack on a security patrol team in Damaturu, Yobe State, by […]

Olympics: Picture: Williams sisters win tennis gold

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines, Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 6th, 2012

Serena Williams followed her own Golden Slam by teaming with big sister Venus on Sunday to continue their dominance of Olympic women’s doubles tennis. The American sisters beat Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 under the roof on a rainy afternoon at the All England Club for their third Olympic […]

Usain Bolt defends 100m gold at London Olympics

Posted by admin Sports, Track & Field Monday, August 6th, 2012

Usain Bolt of Jamaica has retained his Olympic 100m title in a hotly contested race which saw seven men finished the race in less than 10 secs. Bolt, though has a poor reaction to the gun set an Olympic record of 9.63 sec at the London Olympic to win the highly anticipated race. “I was […]

7 Dead at Sikh Temple shooting in Wisconsin

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, American Politics Monday, August 6th, 2012

Seven people were shot and killed today at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., in what officials are treating as a case of domestic terrorism. Though police have not given any details on the identity or motive of the shooter, or released the identities of the victims, sources have told ABC News the shootings […]

Suicide bomber’s attack in Damaturu checkpoint kills eight

Posted by admin Armed Forces, Headlines, State News, Yobe Monday, August 6th, 2012

A suicide car bomber on Sunday attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Damaturu, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion will fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government across the north with the aim of carving out an Islamic state in […]

No Going Back on Our Self-Govt, Says Ogoni Farmers

Posted by admin Headlines, Rivers, State News Monday, August 6th, 2012

OGONI farmers on Sunday, rose in stout support of their quest for self-rule, saying they are not prepared to beat a retreat. In an online statement to AkanimoReports, they said, ”we expect that the Ogoni Self-Government can end further attempt to subject Ogoni culture to forced assimilation and destruction of our means of livelihood without […]