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Latest Politics, Oil Politics
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
There are heightened fears that a cabal was determined to ensure that the Hon. Farouk Lawan-led committee panel report does not see the light of day or at worst, get the contents heavily doctored. As a result, controversy has continued to trail the report on fuel subsidy with a group describing it as being suspicious, […]
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Legislature, Senate
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
The Senate Committee on Aviation yesterday at the public hearing on air fare disparity, directed all foreign airlines to pay back the five per cent of all Passenger Fuel Surcharge (PFS) to the federal government, insisting that the claim of ignorance on the part of the airlines was not excuse enough. The committee had slammed […]
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Headlines, Kano, State News
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Members of the State Security Service (SSS) in Kano on Tuesday shot dead a middle aged man at a check point close to the headquarters of the service office, for allegedly defying the normal check point protocol. The man identified as Zaharadeen Musa Mohammad was driving a Toyota Corolla car. He carried his brother […]
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Headlines, Osun, State News
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Osun State Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aragbesola, shorn of all airs off office, calls himself an unconventional governor. Amidst allegations that he was coordinating plans by his party, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to secede and Islamise Osun, he quipped: “I couldn’t even Islamise my nuclear family.” He spoke with KODILINYE OBIAGWU and SEYE OLUMIDE […]
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Delta, Headlines, Party Politics, State News
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
THE opposition Democratic People’s Party (DPP) yesterday hailed the sentencing of former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, to 13 years imprisonment in the United Kingdom (UK). The party said that the judgment was a vindication of its long-standing allegation that Ibori looted Delta State for eight years. On its part, the Delta State government said […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has declared that 89.64 per cent of drugs in the Nigerian markets are genuine, just as six Nigerian pharmaceutical companies are set to obtain the World Health Organisations (WHO)-prequalification in two years. Director General of NAFDAC, Dr. Paul Orhii, said yesterday at a press […]
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EFCC Politics
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
THERE was drama at the premises of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday, when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) held a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Robert Clarke, for two hours with armed police officers in a bid to arrest his client. The client, Funmi Ademosun, is […]
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House, Legislature
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
THE House of Representatives yesterday mandated its committees on Health and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to investigate what the lawmakers described as “suspicious mismanagement” of N3.8 billion from the N4.5 billion approved by President Goodluck Jonathan to establish an American hospital and the American University of Medical Sciences in Nigeria. In 2005, the Federal […]
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Delta, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Gets 13-year jail term, loses assets Nigerians celebrate conviction Britain vows to root out graft High-risk prison for ex-governor THE Ibori clan in British prisons swelled by one yesterday. And he is the head of the family. Two-time governor of Delta State James Onanefe Ibori, will now have the chance to hold court over his […]
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Arts/Culture & Entertainment, Nollywood (Film Industry)
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Stephanie Okereke paints Paris red with her hubby Actress Stephanie Okereke last weekend painted Paris red with her hubby, Linus Idahosa as they exchanged their matrimonial vows there. Their wedding which held in a century castle in Paris put to rest the several months of speculation on whether the wedding would hold as planned or […]