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Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Dolphins FC SUPERSPORT.COM Nigeria champions, Dolphins will play their 2012 CAF Champions’ League matches at the Port Harcourt Liberation Stadium. The venue for the club’s home games in this year’s edition of Africa’s elite club competition had been shrouded in mystery following reports that the brand new ultra modern Adokiye Amiesimaka Sports Complex was at […]
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EFCC Politics
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
EFFC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde By Kunle Akogun and Ike Abonyi The Senate Wednesday confirmed the nomination of Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde for appointment as Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). His confirmation hearing followed the submission of his name to the upper chamber by President Goodluck Jonathan on January 19, in accordance […]
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Latest Politics, Women Politics
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala By Ndubuisi Francis Following the failure to remove the subsidy on petrol, the Federal Government has revised the 2012 budget proposal, of which it intends to spend N888.1 billion as subsidy on petrol and kerosene this year. In the revised proposal, the government […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Whitney Houston SKYNEWS Whitney Houston’s fans will be able to watch her private funeral on the internet after her family agreed to allow a camera into the small church service in Newark, New Jersey. Some fans expressed disappointment after it was announced that just 300 relatives and friends would able to attend the private funeral […]
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Headlines
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, returned to Nigeria Wednesday aboard a chartered private jet that landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos about 9.00 pm and declared he was hale […]
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Bayelsa, Governors, State News
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, Wednesday sacked the state’s executive council and the board of all government owned parastatals while also freezing the government accounts. All political office holders appointed by both former Governor Timipre Sylva and former acting governor, Chief Nestor Binabo, were asked to go with […]
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Boko Haram, Latest Politics, Niger, State News
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
By Ike Abonyi As a fall-out from the arrest of two Boko Haram suspects, Abu Qaqa and Kabiru Sokoto, the State Security Services (SSS) Wednesday declared a former soldier, Habibu Bama, wanted. A statement from the service spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar, said: “The person whose photograph appears above is Habibu Bama. He is hereby declared wanted […]
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Headlines, Kaduna, State News
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
THREE days after their breadwinner, Pastor Isua Kiforo, was shot at the Kaduna State Government House by security operatives, who took him for a suicide bomber, life has become miserable for the family. His wife, Charity, who spoke yesterday on the incident and the plight of the family since the incident occurred, raised a […]
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House, Legislature
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
THE House of Representatives has called on the Executive arm of government to make adequate provisions in the 2012 budget for urgent repairs of the Nigeria House in the United States (U.S.) in order to save the country from further embarrassment. Adopting a motion introduced by Sokonte Davies, the lawmakers noted that the Nigeria House […]
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Africa & World Politics, Headlines
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
IN what is termed the deadliest fire in years in the country’s overcrowded prison system, about 272 inmates were killed and dozens injured when a fire tore through a prison in Honduras, officials in the Central American country said yesterday. “We are pulling out bodies… The situation is serious. Most (inmates) have suffocated,” Agence France […]