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Ogun, Olusegun Obasanjo (1976-79, 99-07), State News
Monday, March 5th, 2012
PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan yesterday congratulated former President Olusegun Obasanjo on his 75th birthday today. In a letter released in Abuja, President Jonathan thanked God that Obasanjo has spent virtually all of his adult life “in dedicated patriotic service to our fatherland.” Also, Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun, congratulated the former President. Amosun, in a statement […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, March 5th, 2012
A WORKER verification exercise carried out by the Federal Government in Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has shown that 17,000 “fake employees” are on the payroll of the firm. It was also discovered that PHCN has 6,000 casual workers. The biometric project was undertaken by Creative HR, which in its report, said there was […]
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Latest Politics
Monday, March 5th, 2012
IT is one incident too many. But it is clear that the Federal Government is no longer ready to accept the frequent mistreatment of Nigerians by South African authorities and allow such actions go unnoticed. Prior to the latest indecent treatment of some Nigerians aboard Arik Air plane, past incidents had created spasms of tension […]
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Biafra, Headlines
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
By Femi Fani-Kayode A great and proud warrior. A true son of Africa. The strength and pride of the Igbo race. Tell it not in the north, the south, the east or the west….for how are the mighty fallen. You stood firm and fought hard for your people when it mattered the most. Nothing else […]
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Articles, Columnists, EFCC Politics, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
By Raheem ‘MOSHOESHOE’ Oluwafunminiyi, Ibadan, Nigeria, March 4, 2012 – No institution has been slapped and punched around with massive controversies and criticisms other than those of the EFFC, since the consolidation of democratic rule in Nigeria in 1999. This is simply because the EFCC was an institution set up without putting in place major […]
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Breaking News, Niger Delta
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
One of the suspected masterminds of the October 1, 2010 bombing in Abuja, Tiemkenfa Francis Osvwo (alias General Gbokos), died in the Kuje Prison on Saturday. A statement by his lawyer in the case, Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Charles Okah & others, Mr. Festus Keyamo, alleged that Osvwo was murdered by the authorities. Keyamo […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Johannesburg – Many Nigerians aboard Arik Air and South Africa Airways flights were refused entry to South Africa on Friday. The passengers were denied entry by the South Africa Port Health authority and the immigration service on the ground that they had invalid yellow fever vaccination cards. One of the passengers, Olaminde Olaofe, said that […]
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Biafra, Latest Politics
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
President Goodluck Jonathan has again described the late ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Ojukwu as a selfless leader who fought against injustice while alive, just as the South East Governors said that Ikemba’s burial had brought to an end the wounds and pains of the Nigeria Civil War. Jonathn, who poured encomium on the late […]
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Headlines, Nigerian Police
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
THERE is an uneasy calm in the Nigeria Police as a result of speculations of a mass retirement, following the recent promotion of some officers above their senior colleagues. Sources revealed to Saturday Tribune that some Commissioners of Police were promoted to the rank of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) over Senior Assistant Inspectors General of […]
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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
RWANDA coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic is already playing mind games ahead of June 17 return leg of 2013 Africa Nations Cup against Nigeria in Abuja, saying that though the Super Eagles are the favourites, yet he has a record of never losing on Nigerian soil. Nigeria and Rwanda played a scoreless draw in Kigali on […]
