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Articles, Columnists, Nigerian Police, NNP Columnists, Philip Ikomi
Friday, May 18th, 2012
May 17, 2012 Mr. Mohammed Abubakar Inspector General of Police Force Headquarters Kam Salem House Abuja, FCT, Nigeria, W.A. Dear Inspector General: I am dismayed by your alleged utterance on the occasion of the inauguration of the Police Savings and Loans Board at the Force Headquarters in Abuja reported in the Punch newspaper on-line on […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Friday, May 18th, 2012
May 18, 2012 by Kazeem Busari 15 Comments Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi, has unexpectedly left out Chelsea midfielder Mikel Obi and other English Premier League players, except for Wigan’s Victor Moses, out of the team that will face Namibia, Malawi and Rwanda in the 2014 World Cup and 2013 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers […]
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Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, said on Thursday that only Jonathan could authorise the inclusion of Itsekiri youths in the amnesty programme for ex-Niger Delta militants. Itsekiri youths, under the aegis of the Itsekiri Youths National Council, have been protesting their exclusion from the programme by the Federal […]
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Governors, Latest Politics, North-Central, North-East, North-West
Friday, May 18th, 2012
May 18, 2012 by David Attah and Uzoma Ubabukoh 252 Comments The 19 northern governors on Thursday rose in defence of the Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari’s party on Wednesday had described the Jonathan administration as the “most corrupt ever,” in response to the Presidency and the Peoples […]
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Nigerian Police
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Indications have emerged that 14 Assistant Inspectors General of Police inherited by the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), MD Abubakar, on assumption of office, may have finally been asked to go by the Police Service Commission (PSC). This followed the notification of their retirement letters on Wednesday, which some of them have collected, while […]
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Ekiti, Headlines, State News
Friday, May 18th, 2012
FORMER governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, has dared the incumbent governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to make good his threat of arresting and prosecuting him for parading himself as former governor, saying “if he (Fayemi) has no enough policemen to effect the arrest in Ekiti, he can call for reinforcement from his godfather in […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics
Friday, May 18th, 2012
THE Federal Government has struck military deal with no fewer than 17 countries, in its bid to contain the menace of terrorism occasioned by the activities of the Boko Haram sect This was disclosed in Abuja, on Thursday, by the Minister of Defence, Dr Bello Haliru Mohammed, while speaking at the ongoing ministerial platform organised […]
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Armed Forces, Headlines
Friday, May 18th, 2012
ABUJA—Defence Minister, Dr. Bello Mohammed, said, yesterday, that the Armed Forces were in a state of combat readiness needed to surmount all issues of insecurity, internal or external. He said government has ensured this by funding the requirements of the different arms of the military. Soldiers operating an armour tank during Combat Arms Training Week […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Friday, May 18th, 2012
By Kenneth Ehigiator LAGOS — Almost two weeks after the Senate ordered Lufthansa Airlines to pay the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, N2.198 billion, being money representing unpaid royalties between 2009 and November 2011, the airline is yet to do so, saying it had paid all charges to date. Royalty is money paid by foreign […]
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Headlines, Lagos, State News
Friday, May 18th, 2012
By SOLA OGUNDIPE & CHIOMA OBINNA IKEJA – The face–off between the Lagos State Government and sacked 788 doctors, yesterday, took a dramatic turn, as doctors in federal hospitals in Lagos, said they will today embark on an indefinite solidarity strike. The federal hospital doctors called on the National Assembly to urgently wade into the […]
