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Nigerian Police
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
The acting Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Abubakar, has thrown his full weight behind the special task force on security being proposed by Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson. Abubakar gave his support to the task force yesterday when Dickson paid him a courtesy visit in his office at the force headquarters, Louis Edet House, […]
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House, Legislature
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
House of Representatives yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan of engaging in borrowing spree. The House said by so doing the president was flouting the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). It threatened to invoke the necessary provision if the president failed within 60 days to implement the Act. The Act passed into law in 2007 places a […]
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Africa & World Politics, Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Nigerian authorities have detained five men, including a Mauritanian, believed linked to Al-Qaeda’s North African branch over the January kidnapping of a German, two security sources said yesterday. Four of the suspects were arrested last Thursday in a raid on a supermarket in Kano owned by the Mauritanian, while the fifth was held in a […]
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Boko Haram, Headlines
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram on revenge mission, yesterday in Maiduguri, Borno State, shot dead Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, father of the detained sect’s spokesman, Abu Darda (aka Abu Qaqa). Bello is a retired Deputy Comptroller of Prisons. Also killed was Bello’s friend, whose identity could not be ascertained by Press time. Abu Qaqa had […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 28, 2012 – The foremost African American leader of the 20 th Century, Martin Luther King Jr., having been arrested for leading a protest against racial segregation, wrote from his prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a letter he addressed to a group of clergymen that […]
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Headlines, Legislature, Senate, Soccer, Sports, Track & Field
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By PAUL BASSEY Supervising Minister of Sports, Bolaji Abdullahi yesterday got a standing ovation at the Senate Committee on Sports after volunteering to go and beg in the homes of aggrieved football administrators, who still have issues with the current board of the Nigeria Football Federation. Speaking at the second day of the Hearing on […]
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Latest Politics
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By Daniel Eteghe LAGOS — Aviation unions under the aegis of the Air Transport Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, ATSSSAN, National Union of Air Transport Employees, NUATE, with its affiliate in the Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, applauded the Federal Government for taking a bold step in terminating the concession agreement between FAAN and Maevis […]
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Africa & World Politics, Latest Politics
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By Rotimi Ajayi ABUJA — President Goodluck Jonathan has endorsed plan by the Ministry of Aviation to compel the British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and other international airlines operating in the country to correct the disparity in the fare charged Nigerians against that charged other West African passengers. A top source in the ministry told Vanguard […]
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Headlines
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
By Inalegwu Shaibu ABUJA — The Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter Governmental Affairs panel, Tuesday, expressed dismay over the exorbitant price of drivers’ licence and new number plate by state governments. The controversial new number plate and drivers’ licence introduced by the Federal Road Safety Commission, FRSC, was produced at the cost of […]
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Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan (2010-present), Presidency
Wednesday, March 28th, 2012
BY EMEKA MAMAH LAGOS— President Goodluck Jonathan assured yesterday that his government will end the menace of Islamic sect, Boko Haram in some areas of the north by the middle of the year. He said the nation’s security forces will take total control of the situation. Jonathan who spoke in an interview with the South […]