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Boko Haram, Headlines, State News, Yobe
Monday, June 25th, 2012
DAMATURU, the Yobe State capital, again came under heavy fire on Sunday morning, when suspected members of the Jam’atul Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, otherwise known as Boko Haram attacked a school and prison in the city. According to reports, the assailants attacked the prison and freed many prisoners also left a prison warder in critical […]
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State News, Zamfara
Monday, June 25th, 2012
THE Zamfara State Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Alhaji Hassan Ato, has said the Nigerian Tribune has won the hearts of northerners in recent times, with the way and manner it is reporting events in the country without bias. The SSG made the disclosure during the recently concluded local government election in Bungudu, his […]
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Armed Forces, Bayelsa, Headlines, Niger Delta, State News
Monday, June 25th, 2012
THE efforts of the Joint Task Force (JTF) codenamed “Operation Pulo Shield” in the Niger Delta to rid the region’s waterways of criminal elements paid off on Saturday as operatives of the special security force killed six suspected pirates in a gun battle that lasted for one and a half hours in Bayelsa State. Nigerian […]
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Latest Politics, Nigerian Police
Monday, June 25th, 2012
The Federal Government has advised security beef up around the chairman of the Presidential Task Team on Pension Reform, Abdulrasheed Maina. This action by the government, at the weekend, is a subtle demonstration of support for Maina, notwithstanding the stance by the Senate which alleged in a report by its Ad Hoc Committee on Pension […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, June 25th, 2012
THREE more kidnap suspects, among them a woman, have been arrested by the Delta State police command in connection with the abduction of ex-Super Eagles player, Christian Obodo, penultimate Sunday. The latest arrest brings to six the number of suspects cooling their heels in police net over Obodo kidnap saga. Security sources told Nigerian Tribune, […]
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American Politics, Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Monday, June 25th, 2012
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has blamed Nigeria’s leadership for the US’ designation of three leaders of Boko Haram as Specially Designated Global Terrorists, with its implications for Nigeria’s sovereignty. In a statement issued in Ilesa, Osun State, on Sunday, by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the Jonathan presidency […]
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Headlines
Monday, June 25th, 2012
FRIENDS, associates, captain of industries, art connoisseurs, organisations and others are still trooping in to condole with the families of the Nigeria former Ambassador to Ethiopia, Chief Segun Olusola. Olusola died on June 21 at the age of 77 in Lagos. Mr Olujimi Olusola, first son of the late Ambassador Olusola, told the News Agency […]
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Headlines
Monday, June 25th, 2012
The controversial Bida-based Islamic cleric and husband of 97 wives, Alhaji Mohammed Bello Masaba, on Sunday, debunked the rumour of his death, saying, ”I am hale and hearty. The rumour of my death is not true.” The rumour of the death of the 87-year-old record polygamist spread like fire in harmattan on Saturday, especially in […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Monday, June 25th, 2012
A Niger Delta-based civil society organisation, People and Environmental Rights Assembly (PERA) has commended President Goodluck Jonathan for dispelling the insinuation that he is a sectional leader, by choosing the new National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (retd) from the core North. The group, in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Mr […]
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Women Politics
Monday, June 25th, 2012
THE wife of the Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Mrs Nkasiobi Okoh, has charged women to cry unto God and trust Him for divine solution over Nigeria’s security situation. Okoh gave the charge at the maiden Archdeaconry women’s conference of the Cathedral Church of the Advent, Life Camp, Abuja, which ended on Sunday. The […]
