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Oyo, State News
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
April 2, 2012 by Akinwale Aboluwade 9 Comments A total of 2,155 houses have been marked for demolition by a committee which assessed the structures affected by the flood disaster that ravaged Ibadan and its environs on August 26, 2011. Oyo State Commissioner for Environment and Habitat, Mr. Wasiu Dauda, after the monthly environmental sanitation […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
“On this day, March 25, 2012, at 9:27 pm., President Abdoulaye Wade, a candidate in the presidential election, called President Macky Sall to congratulate him for having won the election and to wish him good luck in his mission as the head of Senegal in the hope that he will render the Senegalese happy. In […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
April 2, 2012 by Olusola Fabiyi, Fidelis Soriwei, Olalekan Adetayo and Adelani Adepegba NNPC Towers, Abuja | credits: File copy The nation’s capital, Abuja, is on the alert over the possibility of an attack by the Boko Haram sect on sensitive installations in the city at Easter. A week to the Easter celebration, the Federal […]
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American Politics, Headlines
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
LAGOS (AFP) – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $12-million (nine-million-euro) grant Monday to a project aimed at boosting yam production and doubling the income of west African farmers of the crop. It is the foundation’s largest grant for yam production anywhere in the world, said a spokesman of the International Institute of […]
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National Politics, Top Stories
Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Lagos – (NAN) A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday dismissed the criminal charges filed against the former Managing Director of Intercontinental Bank ( now Access Bank), Dr Erastus Akingbola, for lack of diligent prosecution. The EFCC had on Dec. 31, 2010 arraigned Akingbola on a 22-count amended charge of misuse of depositors’ fund, […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Despite that the National Stadium, Abuja is still in total darkness, the National Sports Commission (NSC) says it has spent a whopping N37.238 million to restore electricity at the main bowl of the stadium. It would be recalled that the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abuja Electricity District Company, Engineer […]
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Latest Politics
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Monday, April 02, 2012 Amadu Bello Photo: Sun News Publishing It was Uthman Dan Fodio, a Fulani and great Islamic scholar who described Conscience as an open wound that could only be healed by the truth. Whatever served as the inspiration for this concept could not be anything other than awesome. The fact that […]
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Latest Politics, Niger Delta
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
The Federal Government has expressed its displeasure with the oil and gas industry’s inability to train 3,000 ex-militants it pledged to facilitate their training in related industry areas. Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Matters, Kingsley Kuku who expressed government’s disappointment at the weekend, at an investiture ceremony, where he was honoured as […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
There was confusion at the Ungwam Muazu, an outskirt of Kaduna State on Sunday as a bomb explosion rocked the area, killing the suspected bomber and leaving two others seriously injured. The injured persons were taken to an undisclosed hospital for medical attention. An eyewitness said, “I heard a deafening sound on my way from […]
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Headlines
Sunday, April 1st, 2012
No fewer than six bandits in the wee hours of Sunday raided Skye Bank, Ejigbo branch, Lagos, carting away an unspecified amount of money. The robbers, said to be armed with AK 47 riffles, scaled the fence of the bank at Orioke, Ejigbo at about 1am and tied up the security guards. It was learnt […]