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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, July 16th, 2012
PORTMOUTH manager, said Nigerian international Kanu Nwankwo can go ahead and sue the club even as he insists on dropping all the club’s senior players from the team. There had been reports that the former Nigeria striker could sue the club for breach of contract, but Appleton says he is leaving that for administrator Trevor […]
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Presidency
Monday, July 16th, 2012
AN independent audit report has discovered how the Federal Government has continuously drained the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). According to an audit report published by Reuters on Monday, the Federal Government was owing the NNPC some improper and informal loans, which were used to cover a range of expenses, from a […]
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Kogi, Nigerian Police, State News
Monday, July 16th, 2012
AFTER a car with registration number Kogi LKJ 919 AA, rigged with explosive devices, exploded in Okene on Sunday, a bomb and explosive factory has been discovered in an apartment in Kogi State. The building also houses a church and a mosque at Okaito, a remote village in Okehi LGA of the state. On the […]
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Armed Forces, Latest Politics
Monday, July 16th, 2012
PRESIDENT and chairman of the governing council of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of Nigeria, Chief Afe Babalola, has traced the myriad of problems facing Nigeria to what he described as the military constitution currently operating in the country. Afe Babalola said this while speaking at the annual presidential dinner and presentation of awards and certificates […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Monday, July 16th, 2012
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Ikeja for an order compelling the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB), Mr Sam Saba, to release documents on President Goodluck Jonathan’s asset declaration. SERAP’s request, in a suit number FHC/IKJ/CS/159/2012, was brought pursuant to section 20 of […]
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Bauchi, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 16th, 2012
BAUCHI State governor, Mallam Isa Yuguda, on Monday, announced the sack over 4,000 political appointees in the state, while he retained the services of appointees for essential services. A statement dated July 15, 2012, signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr Ibrahim Dandija, made available to journalists in Bauchi on Monday, said those […]
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Bayelsa, Headlines, State News
Monday, July 16th, 2012
THE seeming peace in Bayelsa was shattered on Monday, as suspected cultists, armed with sophisticated weapons, unleashed terror, in Yenagoa, the state capital, when they allegedly shot to death two middle-aged men, including the security aide to Governor Henry Seriake Dickson, simply identified as “British.” Nigerian Tribune authoritatively gathered that the victims, who were from […]
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Headlines, Kogi, State News
Monday, July 16th, 2012
THE people of Kogi State, on Monday, lost one of the oldest first class traditional ruler, Alhaji (Dr) Aliyu Obaje, the Attah of Igala, who dies at the age of 102. Dr Obaje died on Monday at Idah, at about 2.00 p.m. The late Attah Igala was enthroned on November 2, 1956. He was the […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Monday, July 16th, 2012
LAGOS State government, on Monday, commenced the demolition of the large Makoko waterfront slum. It will be recalled that the state government, on July 12, had warned Makoko residents that the structures they had mounted on the waterfront were not only illegal, but also constituted environmental nuisance. According to information gathered, a letter from the […]
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Judiciary, Presidency
Monday, July 16th, 2012
FURTHER details emerged, on Monday, on how President Goodluck Jonathan frustrated moves by some powerful forces, which were bent on stopping the nomination of Justice Aloma Mukhtar as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Sources in political circles confirmed to the Nigerian Tribune that the forces had all along followed the career progression of […]