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Articles, Columnists, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), John Egbeazien Oshodi, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
By Dr. John E. Oshodi | NNP | June 13, 2012 – President Jonathan, it is time for an executive order to be issued in order to put an end to the ongoing deeply painful domestic and abusive relationship between law enforcement officers, the police in particular and very important persons in the country. Many […]
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Articles, Columnists, MD, NNP Columnists, Oguchi Nkwacho
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
August 3 1966: “there is no basis for Nigerian unity, which has been so badly rocked, not only once but several times.” –Lt Col Yakubu Gowon Having said the facts and publicly stated the truth of the matter, Gowon proceeded to act contrary to this living reality of Nigeria. He would drag the peoples […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Prince Charles Dickson
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
By Prince Charles Dickson |Jos, Nigeria | June 13, 2012 – Names… From Ebele, Abati, Sambo, Fashola, Oronto…, I am yet to see anybody who does not have one; the English language calls it a noun. Everyone and everything has one, from the very popular to the virtual unknown. Most people have a vague idea […]
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House, Legislature, Raw Politics, Top Stories
Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
Angry members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday insisted that one of their high-ranking members, Mr. Farouk Lawan, currently enmeshed in a $3m bribery allegation must carry his own cross. A key member of the House confided in The PUNCH in Abuja that most members had reportedly analysed Lawan and Femi Otedola’s accounts of […]
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Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
BY ONOCHIE ANIBEZE Hours after Christian Ogbodo regained his freedom from his abductors, he confirmed Vanguard’s story that his abduction was facilitated by a friend he was yet to identify. The news of the kidnap of the Udinese of Italy player last Saturday spread to many countries and a disgusted and angry Delta State Governor, […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
By John Egbokhan Coach Stephen Keshi has described as ‘shameful’,the blunder of goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama in last weekend’s 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Malawi The match ended 1-1, with the Super Eagles taking the lead with a minute left in regulation time at the Kamuzu Stadium in Blantyre, only to allow the Malawians equalise […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
By Sola Ogundipe & Chioma Obinna LAGOS — Further release of bodies of victims of last Sunday’s Dana air crash may have been put on hold at the Lekan Ogunsola Memorial Mortuary of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, pending the completion of the DNA test on the unidentifiable corpses. This development emerged, yesterday, […]
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General Politics, Ibrahim Babangida (1985-93), Presidency, Top Stories
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
BY DAPO AKINREFON Without June 12, there won’t be May 29 — Ayo Adebanjo, former NADECO chieftain I agree with what the public opinion says, it is to get a Federal Government institution named after him and the consensus of opinion seems to be the National Stadium at Abuja or in Lagos. We would not […]
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Headlines, State News, Yobe
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
Potiskum (Yobe) – Unidentified gunmen on Tuesday killed the Deputy Leader of the Yobe State House of Assembly, Alhaji Adamu Degubi. The Public Relations Officer of the Yobe State Police Command, Mr Adamu Salihu, confirmed the killing of the legislator. “We have not ascertained those behind the killing and their motive. “Investigation is going on […]
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Headlines
Tuesday, June 12th, 2012
Asaba – An Asaba Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 44-year-old woman, Mrs Helen Nwokobia and her three children to six months imprisonment each for assaulting their landlord. The children are Chukwudi Nwokobia, 20, Emeka Nwokobia, 17 and Ify Nwokobia, 23. The court, however, gave the convicts an option of N2, 000 as fine each. […]
