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Gunmen kill 17 in twin attacks in Kenyan churches

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, July 2nd, 2012

(AFP)—Masked gunmen killed 17 people and wounded dozens in gun and grenade attacks on two churches Sunday in the Kenyan town of Garissa near the border with Somalia, officials said. As Kenya vowed not to be deterred, Washington extended its support to the east African powerhouse and the Vatican expressed concern that attacks on Christian […]

Seven die in raid of Boko Haram

Posted by admin Boko Haram, Headlines Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Two soldiers, two policemen and three suspected members of the Boko Haram sect are believed to have died during a military raid at the weekend on Boko Haram hideout in Damaturu, the police said. Gunshots were heard at about 6pm on Saturday, the official curfew time in the Yobe State capital, as members of the […]

‘Jonathan not soft on corruption’

Posted by admin Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency Monday, July 2nd, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan has been living up to his promise of zero tolerance for corruption, the Presidency said yesterday. It added that Dr. Jonathan has takes various measures in his push against corruption, in a statement by his media adviser Dr. Reuben Abati. Abati was reacting to “reports, comments and agitations aimed at creating the […]

Al-Qaeda threatens ECOWAS nations

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, July 2nd, 2012

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened to act “with firmness and determination” against anyone collaborating with a West African force that might intervene in north Mali. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a leader of AQIM, which is one of the armed Islamist groups controlling the huge territory for the past three months, warned Saturday that no one […]

Finance minister laments Omogui-Okauru’s exit from FIRS

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Women Politics Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Comments Minister of Finance, Okonjo-Iweala | credits: The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that the exit of the former Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mrs. Ifueko Omogui-Okauru, is a great loss to the service. Omogui-Okauru bowed out on April 9 this year from the FIRS, after serving for seven […]

ACN witnesses’ protest exposes judicial corruption — PDP

Posted by admin Action Congress of Nigeria, Party Politics, Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP) Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Again, the Peoples Democratic Party has condemned the declaration of Governor Rauf Aregbesola as the winner of April 14, 2007 governorship election by an Appeal Court that sat in Ibadan, Oyo State. The latest condemnation came on the heels of a protest by several witnesses presented in court by Aregbesola during the governorship trial, which […]

Day all hell broke loose in Kaduna

Posted by admin Headlines, Kaduna, State News Sunday, July 1st, 2012

Scene of a bomb blast | credits: File copy DAVID ATTAH gives a detailed account of what transpired penultimate Sunday, when Kaduna State became a theatre of war. The time was 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 17, 2012. Madam Victoria Akpojiyovwi, fondly called “Mama” by her grandchildren, would by now be giving praises to the […]

Police, SSS close ranks on Lawan’s $3m bribery scandal

Posted by admin Latest Politics, Nigerian Police Sunday, July 1st, 2012

The Police and State Security Service have closed ranks in the former’s bid to crack the $3m bribery case that involves a former chairman, House of Representatives Ad hoc committee on subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, it was authoritatively gathered on Friday. Lawan and the Clerk to his committee, Mr. Boniface Emenalo, had collected a […]

‘Why Nigerian businessmen can’t access funds in US’

Posted by admin American Politics, Headlines Sunday, July 1st, 2012

The Director, Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development, in Indiana University, United States, Professor Bessie House-Soremekun, has given reasons for the inability of Nigerian and African businessmen to access the massive funds lying idle in the business sector in America. House-Soremekun said the dearth of partners that could be trusted by American businessmen had […]

The Pension Scam…How they looted the funds

Posted by admin Headlines Sunday, July 1st, 2012

THE Senate, on June 21, adopted the report of its joint committee on establishment and inter-governmental affairs and states and local governments and recommended, among other things, the prosecution of Chairman of Pension Task Force Team, (PTFT), Abdulrasheed Maina, and other members of the team (including Mr. John Yusuf and B. G. Kaigama) for a […]